This exercise is an opportunity to explore a different side of yourself by experiencing yourself through the eyes of another. Much of the time, we are stuck in our own limited perspectives — we have our habitual way of seeing ourselves and that’s it. On occasion, we are open to outside opinion and able to… Continue reading Freewriting Exercise: How Do Others See You?
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Freewriting Exercise: Finding Clarity About A Complicated Project
When you are faced with a complicated task, it can feel all the more daunting because of how multi-faceted it is. Every time your mind turns toward this project, you can’t make sense of it. Your thinking around it feels tangled in the layers of project management that seem to be required to get everything… Continue reading Freewriting Exercise: Finding Clarity About A Complicated Project
How Writers Break Through the Flow State’s Crusty Outer Layer
One way to think about writing: You’re inputting text. From this standpoint, if you want to write faster, you need to type faster. But so much of the actual time it takes to write something doesn’t merely depend on whether you can type fast, but whether you can write seamlessly. Of course this means not… Continue reading How Writers Break Through the Flow State’s Crusty Outer Layer
Do You Struggle With Low Motivation to Write?
Today, across the world, millions of writers sat down at their desks to write. A substantial percentage of them never actually wrote anything. They sat down with good intentions and then proceeded to deliberate blank out do something else What is this mysterious problem that blocks writers? Low energy Frustration over the process Low opinion… Continue reading Do You Struggle With Low Motivation to Write?
How to Write A Book In Fifteen Minute Bursts
“I’d love to write a book, but I don’t have that kind of time. My schedule is already full, plus I’m constantly being interrupted by my kids, and for the sake of my sanity I desperately need to maintain some sort of social life. That doesn’t leave me enough time to write.” If you want… Continue reading How to Write A Book In Fifteen Minute Bursts
Stick With It… Until the Onion is Peeled [Writing / Goals]
Writing isn’t hard. Compared to other challenges life brings, writing isn’t even remotely difficult. Writing for a sustained period, however, takes courage. Writing and finishing a project takes bravery. More bravery than most people realize. Nonwriters have only had a taste of this in school or when maybe writing a poem for their lover when… Continue reading Stick With It… Until the Onion is Peeled [Writing / Goals]
What’s the Difference Between Open and Focused Freewriting?
Open Freewriting Open freewriting is completely openended. You just write. The simplicity of methodology doesn’t mean that you are limited to what can emerge. With open freewriting, it is especially true that anything can happen. Open freewriting is a place for you to be wild, chaotic, totally free, totally present. Always in the act of… Continue reading What’s the Difference Between Open and Focused Freewriting?
Freewrite Instead of Sitting and Thinking
The more you freewrite, the more you become yourself. Unburdened writing gets you in touch with your own voice. Through the ongoing practice of writing without constraint, being totally free, you learn to trust your inner wisdom. When you freewrite… Nobody is telling you how to write or how you should sound or what makes… Continue reading Freewrite Instead of Sitting and Thinking
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]
Staying in the Flow – [Freewriting Mastery]
Every action should be a step towards depth, integrity, and mastery. That means doing one thing at a time. Nothing should get in the way of that single thing. Don’t try to switch back and forth between different tasks. I know it’s tempting! But don’t do that. Switching back and forth means: you drop the… Continue reading Staying in the Flow – [Freewriting Mastery]