Category: freewriting

In the Flow, Look Where You Want To Go – [Depth Freewriting]

Freewriting is the writer’s way of directly engaging the flow state. (What is the flow state?) How freewriting engenders the flow state You start writing (or dictating) before you know what you are going to say. You continue to write whether or not you know anything about what you are saying. It’s challenging and it’s… Continue reading In the Flow, Look Where You Want To Go – [Depth Freewriting]

A Four Part Method to Distill A Complex Writing Project

Try this 4-part timed freewriting technique to gain clarity about the essentials of your current writing project While we may look at the sky and think it is beautiful, we don’t go so far as to show someone else how it looks. One reason may be that we do not care enough about the sky… Continue reading A Four Part Method to Distill A Complex Writing Project

Freewriting is Like Planting Seeds

Imagination is the Divine Body in Every Man William Blake When you freewrite, you wander the imagination stomping or treading lightly, each step a word. As you step, your feet collect tiny seeds and track them from place to place. Your every action while in the realm of imagination plants seeds. And it is not… Continue reading Freewriting is Like Planting Seeds

Try this 2 Minute Freewrite for a Quick Creative Boost

Maybe you’re in the middle of a writing project — a book, a blog, a presentation — and you’re starting to feel boggy. Dragged down, uninspired. Sometimes we get stuck because we have been looking at the situation the wrong way. Or we have run out of good ideas. Or we can’t for the life… Continue reading Try this 2 Minute Freewrite for a Quick Creative Boost