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Freewriting – a Game Your Unconscious Likes to Play
by Bill Henderson @ Write a Better Novel ideasinspirationtechniquesFreewriting is a form of conscious writing that you do for a specific period of time. It’s not trance writing, you’re very aware of what you’re writing. It’s not presentational writing–it shouldn’t be written as though it will be read by others. It can be sloppy, ugly, incomprehensible, ungrammatical, as elliptical as a grocery list: because no one will ever read it, none of that matters. It has only one rule. For the 10, 15, or 20 minutes that you’ve chosen to freewrite, DO NOT STOP.