Category: freewriting

Navigating the Outline of a Messy Draft

I wrote previously about the benefits of keeping a file of topic ideas. Basically like a compost pile, a document where you can throw all sorts of material into and transform rough pieces into polished drafts. Maybe that document sounds like it would be a headache to make sense of. A disaster waiting to happen.… Continue reading Navigating the Outline of a Messy Draft

Questions to Ask Your Writer’s Block

Do you want to move more deeply to get beneath the block… or let it go? Freewriting involves writing without stopping for some length of time. Sometimes it’s awesome, sometimes it sucks. If you freewrite for a long time, there are bound to be moments when you write things that no reader besides you will… Continue reading Questions to Ask Your Writer’s Block

Use Your Peripheral Vision! [Depth Freewriting Strategy]

A writer’s peripheral vision Sometimes the best ideas have to sneak up on you. You know the feeling. You’re doodling around with one thing or another, then WHAM! Like lightning, inspiration strikes. Eureka! You race forward with your new discovery. The world is forever changed. It’s a beautiful feeling, and it happens like magic. You… Continue reading Use Your Peripheral Vision! [Depth Freewriting Strategy]

Why it’s Essential to Unlearn How to Write

The Value of Deconditioning Practice can lead to improvement, but we don’t automatically get better as we write. Experience alone doesn’t lead to improvement. If we do the same thing over and over, years may go by and we don’t get better. If you drive your car in circles, you’ll put plenty of miles on… Continue reading Why it’s Essential to Unlearn How to Write