[stylist] Journaling Thoughts

[Bridgit Pollpeter]

In creative writing, this is called free association.

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Homme,
James
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 8:55 AM
To: Writer's Division Mailing List (stylist at nfbnet.org)
Subject: [stylist] Journaling Thoughts


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

________________________________

This e-mail and any attachments to it are confidential and are intended
solely for use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed.
If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender
immediately and then delete it. If you are not the intended recipient,
you must not keep, use, disclose, copy or distribute this e-mail without
the author's prior permission. The views expressed in this e-mail
message do not necessarily represent the views of Highmark, its
diversified business, or affiliates.
_______________________________________________
Writers Division web site
http://writers.nfb.org/
stylist mailing list
stylist at nfbnet.org http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/stylist_nfbnet.org
To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
stylist:
http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/stylist_nfbnet.org/bpollpeter%40hotmai
l.com