When writing becomes a normal activity, it's much easier to start on a particular writing project. You become used to spoiling clean paper the same way joggers become used to wearing out running shoes. Switch the Time of Day . Sometimes writing at night when you are tired lowers your critical sense in a positive way, and other times you can jump out of bed in the morning and get a start on the writing before your internal critic catches up with you. Call the Draft an Experiment or an Exercise .
Good writing is always an experiment.
Make an attempt at it and see if it will work. Since they are just exercises and not poems she doesn't have to get uptight about them, but of course if an exercise turns into a poem she'll accept it. Dictate a Draft . Use a tape recorder and then transcribe it from that. You may want to transcribe it carefully or just catch the gist of what you had to say.