Are you a careful planner? Do you like to know your exact daily itinerary before you take a trip or do you leave yourself open to exploration and discovery? In writing as in travel, you may not discover exactly where you’re going until you’re well on the way. If you wait to figure out the entire course, you […]
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Fast, Fluid, and Fearless: Training your Freewriting
Freewriting fills a critical role in my personal writing process. By freewriting, I mean the act of writing about a topic quickly and fluidly, without stopping to censor or revise. I use the technique to conduct “inner research” into what I already know (or want to find out) about a topic, and to prime the creative pump for future work. […]
Write What You Don’t Know (Yet)
Writing Productivity Tip #2: Write What You Don’t Know – Yet! Every writer hears the mantra: “Write what you know.” The heck with that. What fun would it be if we only wrote what everyone already knew? Try writing to figure out what you want to know. In other words, Write before you know what you’re […]
