[stylist] Stream of consciousness

[Ashley Bramlett]

Bridgit,
I can see you studied well. You know your terms and how to recognize them.
Does free association writing have to be about objects? And what makes Soc 
be SOC?
Hmm, maybe a mini research project. But I am sure you could explain it well 
since you've written in many styles.
Do authors pick one or the other or have you seen them mix both. Who are Soc 
writers?
Ashley

-----Original Message----- 
From: Bridgit Pollpeter
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 6:28 PM
To: stylist at nfbnet.org
Subject: [stylist] Stream of consciousness

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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