Wednesday, July 22, 2009

A Creative Freewrite

This is a free-type, I am going to just sit and write until 1:41 and see what I come up with. You never know when something profound will hit you. On the other hand something you think has great potential as you write it, might be incoherent rambling when you look back on it later. Writing is one of the scariest things to do because you know that once you put something down it is there forever (unless you erase it I guess). It's not like speaking where if someone isn't listening then they never hear it. Once you have written something, anyone can see it at any time. For this reason you have to be fearless in your writing, you can't let other people's reception of your work deter you from continuing. If there is one thing I have learned in this class it is that you can't be afraid to just say what you think and not worry so much about what people think. Sometimes, in fact, writing isn't for other people, a lot of the time it is for yourself. You should, of course, share some writing with other people. I'm not saying to tell people every intimate secret you have, but you should show an part of yourself in your writing and not be afraid to let everyone take a look.

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