This exercise gets you to write from direct observation, presencing your immediate surroundings. The result of delving into this kind of writing is that it gets you to deeply and vividly spread your awareness into the space around you. It’s an awesome workout for your descriptive ability and can also feel like pure indulgence for… Continue reading Freewriting Exercise: Vividly Describe Your Environment
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Freewriting Exercise: Write A Letter to Yourself in the Future
This exercise will only take about fifteen minutes but it’s guaranteed to make your day. It involves spending a few minutes now to write a letter that will get delivered to yourself in the future. Think of it as an electronic time capsule. A secret message you can send into the future for yourself. Who… Continue reading Freewriting Exercise: Write A Letter to Yourself in the Future
Freewriting Exercise: Story Remix
There is a lot of value when artists are magpies, collecting, listening, mimicking. Trying their hand at different things. This exercise is about remixing, collecting, gathering, playing with existing stories. Doing your version of something just as an experiment. The opportunities here are endless. I find the mimicking and copying approach more valuable than studying… Continue reading Freewriting Exercise: Story Remix
What is Depth Freewriting?
Freewriting has been around for some time. Brenda Ueland wrote about it back in 1938 in her book If You Want to Write. Peter Elbow showed how freewriting makes writing accessible to everyone in Writing Without Teachers and other books. Generally speaking, freewriting is simple: You write without stopping. At heart, it is a simple… Continue reading What is Depth Freewriting?
Freewriting Exercise: Make Erasures
This exercise gets you to freewrite for the express purpose of deleting almost every single word, sparing a few here and there. What is an erasure? An erasure is a kind of poem that you make by taking a page of typewritten material and erasing most of it. The words that you leave are the… Continue reading Freewriting Exercise: Make Erasures