[stylist] Stream of consciousness

[Brad Dunse']

Bridgit,
Yep. I did get that :).

Brad



On 9/26/2011  05:28 PM Bridgit Pollpeter said...
>Brad,
>
>What you're talking about is free association writing.
>Stream-of-consciousness is not the same.
>
>Sincerely,
>Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
>Read my blog at:
>http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
>
>"History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
>The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan
>
>Message: 13
>Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:12:57 -0500
>From: Brad Dunse' <lists at braddunsemusic.com>
>To: Writer's Division Mailing List <stylist at nfbnet.org>
>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
>
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