Freewrite Jan 31, 2008

Freewriting is a very interesting concept to me. Ive never conciously thought about using it in my writing, but after reflecting, realized that I practice freewriting in the oral form every day. When engaging in meaningful conversation with peers, I find myself arriving at the point I meant to make well after I begin talking. I find that by just saying the firstr thing that comes to my mind, I am able to eventually stumble upon the right words. The same could hold true in my writing. I often stare at a blank page for a very long time, thinking very hardly about the words I want to put down on the page. Often times, I feel as if I am overthinking things. Perhaps if I just began to write I would eveentually stumble across the words I was searching for, as I do in my conversations. However, I have this phobia (for lack of a better word) of writing sentences that I dont like. Its some knd of mental block that wont allow me to write down garbage sentences, even though they are designed to produce more suitable sentences. I am going to try harder to practice freewriting (this post was written with it and I dont think it came out to bad).