Today give yourself exactly one hour to write. Start the clock and don’t get up from your desk until the hour is up. No cheating by slipping onto Twitter or Facebook… this hour is for writing (or staring at a blank screen) only.
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July 12, 2010
Sage Hill
I just finished teaching a group of teens at the Sage Hill Saskatoon experience. Great group. Great writing. Great to be surprised by their work as the week went on.
Here’s one simple exercise I used (modified) with the group for you to try – we did it on the first day to get words flowing:
DON”T LET YOURSELF STOP WRITING UNTIL THE TIME IS UP – even if you’re writing the same word over and over.
Go: Freewrite for 10 minutes on your earliest memory. Stop. Freewrite for 10 minutes on someone you admire. Stop. Freewrite for 10 minutes on the word window. Stop.
That’s 30 minutes writing all together. Somewhere in the words you’ve got down there will be ideas and maybe even sentences that you can use later on. Freewriting helps you discipline yourself to pour words out and stops you editing yourself before you’ve got something to work with. Try it.
May 16, 2010
Freewriting
It’s Sunday and hopefully you’ve got a window of time today where you can write. Sit at the computer or get out a pen and paper and make sure there can be no distractions. Switch off your phone, cut your internet connection for this exercise.
And now you’re going to write without thinking, without stopping, for twenty minutes. Free writing will help you relax into the words and free you up to let your creative side go.
Use the word fight to get you started. Write anything that comes to mind, even if for a couple of minutes you just have to write the word fight over and over again. The idea is to get writing.
