Writing brings immense highs and lows. This is true over the course of a writer’s career and even over the course of a single writing marathon. When you sit and write for two or more hours, there may be times when you feel fantastic and times when you feel completely lost. This post is for… Continue reading Freewrite When All Hope Is Lost
Category: freewriting
Everything is an Experience
I want to welcome you to a different perspective about writing. Writing is a flow. Writing is an experience. Yes, writing is a way of making things. Words and sentences add up and before you know it, there’s a book. The book is the end point. The end point matters. I want you to finish… Continue reading Everything is an Experience
This is the Right Way to Write
The right way to write. The correct way to scribe. The archetypal modality of authorship. A workable answer for the right way to write is illustrated by Gary Snyder’s poem “Riprap.” I’ll share the poem at the end of this post. The right way to write is freely. Freewriting, writing without stopping, is a swell… Continue reading This is the Right Way to Write
Writing Is Not A Means To An End
Maybe you’ve seen it in other writers. Something about them collapses. No longer interested in writing, they carry a defeated attitude. They seem pessimistic. Their ideas feel heavy and bogged down and even the act of writing is seen as a chore and an obligation. I’ve been there. There are lots of ways to get… Continue reading Writing Is Not A Means To An End
Harness Both Yin and Yang of Freewriting
Most of the learning about freewriting expresses itself as different yang things — active things that you do or focus on or direct your intent towards. Yet the heart of freewriting is really in the yin of it, the yin being the receptivity and flow of it. Willing rather than willful Allowing rather than directing… Continue reading Harness Both Yin and Yang of Freewriting