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Writing - Constructive Effects Of Free-Flow Exercises by Wayne Parker
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Writing is not just writing; it is having a relationship with oneself and the world. To enhance this relationship, a writer needs to learn to trust himself and his experiences. He needs to feel his connections strongly, so he can find his own style and something original to say. Each writer carries many voices within himself, but those voices may play peek-a-boo with the writer, and they may not surface when called upon. To loosen yet cultivate those voices, a writer needs to lift the bars around them. This is when the free-flow writing comes to his aid. The free-flow writing happens, in the raw, when the writer takes a pen with a fluid tip and writes longhand in a notebook, regardless of what he writes. He writes whatever pops up into his mind without lifting the pen, the action similar to that of the automatic writing of the psychics. His phrases, sentences, feelings, and ideas may be shifting, disconnected, full of mistakes, and even illogical, but these things do not matter while he is freeing the voices within himself. During the first few days, he does not have to write free-flow for long periods of time; three to five minutes will do. Later on, he may extend the time as he wishes or as it fits into his schedule. When the writer continues with this exercise every day, he finds out that ideas can come to him freely and frequently and his stories and poetry can take shape with more ease. Some writers may look back upon these free-flow exercises later and construct meaningful manuscripts from them, because the ideas inside those exercises have become clearer and more inspirational to the writer, like a gourmet dish that takes its time to cook on the stove. Besides, by free-flow writing regularly without focusing on the outcome, the writer will gain freedom from the limitation of worrying about the scrutiny and criticism of the readers. A second exercise of free-flow writing is to write non-stop, limiting oneself to a subject but with a loose knot. This exercise needs to follow the first exercise, after the writer has worked with the first exercise for some time. This second type of exercise entails writing from an idea. How does a writer generate or find an idea, then? Simply, from where he is. He can look out the window, inside the room he is in, or at the road he walks or drives on every day. In addition, when the writer has the time, he may make a list of ideas. He can then choose from those ideas for everyday exercises. Sometimes, while making such a list, a writer can become so motivated by an idea that he cannot wait another day to free-flow on that idea. Choosing an idea from list of ideas encourages the writer to concentrate on one topic without sacrificing the looseness in his writing. It does not matter if an idea can produce only a paragraph or several pages, as long as the writer goes with the flow and finds the confidence inside his writer's self to keep on writing. When the simple ideas of looking around and finding them do not appeal to the writer anymore, he can always search into his own life or the lives of the people he knows. All writers have the right to their lives and to their experiences, and they have the right to write about them as they please. If the life experiences are used up or they lose their appeal, then the ideas some books and online sites recommend may come to the rescue as prompts. Besides aiding the writer when he runs out of ideas, prompts may come in handy to open up uncharted territories inside a writer's mind. Free-flow writing from prompts may also help the work to pour itself into more focused writing, without constricting its spontaneity. Most importantly, as the greatest liberator, free-flow writing will silence the critic inside the writer. When writers judge themselves while creating, they obstruct their stream of thought and become more apt to suffer from writer's block. Judging one's own writing has to come much later during the more serious stages of reconstructing and revising the text. Writing should not become a fearful feat for any writer, because the solution to the trepidation of writing is to find the right key to looseness. That key may well be hidden inside the free-flow writing exercises. writing services uk
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