[stylist] Stream of consciousness

[Bridgit Pollpeter]

Brad,

What you're talking about is free association writing.
Stream-of-consciousness is not the same.

Sincerely,
Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
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http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
 
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Message: 13
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:12:57 -0500
From: Brad Dunse' <lists at braddunsemusic.com>
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Subject: Re: [stylist] Story development/strategy?
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That was pretty interesting. My misuse of the formal writing term 
there.  In songwriting, which is more my background, SOC is compared 
to Object Writing, Discovery Writing, etc. Pick a topic, set a timer, 
and begin writing with no holds barred, just let the dog off the 
leash as it were. For instance pick "coffee cup" and you might drift 
off into what it feels like to be an imaginary  micro organism 
rooting around inside the cup, or inside  the pores of the porcelin 
itself describing tasting, touching, hearing, seeing, or how it makes 
you feel physically or emotionally  etc. Or you might go off and 
remember drinking out of your favorit cup while sitting on the shore 
of the ocean describing the sea breeze and what it'd be like to be a 
gull hovering out on the open water staring down at the fins of 
dolphins and so on which is a long way from the original coffee cup. 
The purpose is to increase creativity without boundaries to dig for 
interesting perspectives, phrases, metaphors, describing them using 
all senses  getting past the cliche'-type thinking. This timed 
exercise helps train you to access creativity so in the key clutch 
moments you are use to accessing it by second nature. Sort of like 
the basketball player practicing 500 strait bank shots so when game 
time comes he doesn't have to think too much about it. In most all of 
our early development years as  toddlers, through our school years 
and into our adults most have become so much a focused responsible 
lifestyle that creativity is discouraged or stifled,  in most 
everyone's day to day living, this is meant to help counter that sort 
of thing. I guess this ought really be called stream of subconscious 
writing. :) At any rate it is a nice 10 minute exercise best done in 
the morning maybe even before the first cup.

Brad