FREE WRITING
Transcript: Guidelines for Freewriting 2. Don’t worry about spelling, grammar, or punctuation. Write down whatever is in your head on the page. Freewriting is a way of training yourself to receive and transmit fresh ideas automatically. Just as your body knows how to breathe without conscious effort, your mind knows how to channel inspiration without you thinking about it. But first you may need to break some bad habits that interfere with your ability to send and receive. The goal of freewriting is to move from conscious, deliberate writing to automatic, subconscious writing. The point of freewriting is not to generate something worth handing in – it is simply to generate ideas. You take the time to work through all the ideas floating in your head and write them down on paper. Your first freewriting experiences may generate very little that you can put into a good writing piece, but you’ve begun writing and that it is the first essential step. 1. You will be given a prompt to write about. Continue writing until the designated time has run out. Do not stop until that point. USES OF FREE WRITING 4. Again (because this is important) don’t think about editing, or correctness. Don’t even think about what the next word on the page should be – just write what comes to mind, even if it doesn’t relate immediately to what you were saying before. 3. Don’t rush, but don’t go too slowly either. Write the words as they come to you without editing. 5. If you run into a dead end or draw a blank, keep writing the same word or phrase over and over again until something else pops into your mind. One idea is to take a quick glance around the room and choose one object to describe. When the time has run out, look over what you have written and circle or underline ideas or phrases that you like or that you think that might be useful. • Generates ideas • Moves you past “writer’s block” • Allows you to write without worrying about “right" or “wrong”. • Helps you to generate more words more freely FREE WRITING Freewriting is writing that is free – free from the burden of evaluation, correctness, and judgment. No one will look at it if you don’t want them to. LET'S BEGIN. Write about a topic that people don't usually like talking about. (Can be in the form of a poem) Logo