Try freewriting
- Length
- 10:00
- Grouping
- Individual Form
Freewriting allows the writer to follow the impulses of their own mind, allowing thoughts and inspiration to appear to them without premeditation.
Here are some tips to making your freewriting a fun and productive undertaking.
- Set a timer for an amount of time you’re comfortable with, and start writing anything that enters your brain. It doesn’t need to make sense or be coherent in any way—no one will read it but you.
- Just write. When it comes to freewriting, first drafts are repositories for every idea that comes to mind, however vague or tangential. Don’t worry about word count, don’t worry about market viability, don’t worry about sentence structure, don’t even worry about spelling. Unleash your creativity.
- Do bring ideas to your sessions. Some writers, particularly poets, begin sessions with no ideas or themes they plan to tackle—they simply begin writing with the first word or phrase that comes to mind!
Whether you’re academic writing or creative writing, freewriting is an exercise that keeps the mind active, and can help a writer brainstorm and get through writer’s block.so START TODAY! write for about 10 minutes about YOUR current LIFE and let the ideas flow!