[stylist] Journaling Thoughts

[Homme, James]

Hi,
Regarding journaling, and any other form of writing related to free writing, something I've started to do just this week has been very helpful to me. You can do this in many ways, but I did it with a wonderful text editor that I use In my work, called NoteTab Pro. I set a timer for ten minutes, then write as fast as I can for that time period about anything and everything I'm thinking about. I don't stop for typos. I don't edit. I don't stop for misspellings. I don't care if I make run-on sentences with fifty clauses. I just go. If I can't think of anything to write about it, I write that. I try to avoid getting distracted. If I am distracted, I gently pull my mind back on my keyboarding gibberish and say I was distracted and try to write about what distracted me.

After I'm done, I run a little piece of code that scrambles the text and save my document. This morning I checked the text statistics for the stuff I wrote and was pleasantly surprised to see that I whipped out almost 600 words in that ten minute time, and I was distracted at least twice, and my typing was very sluggish at the beginning.

Thanks.

Jim

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