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You are a Well-Spring of Creativity
Call it free writing, splash writing, flash writing, brain dumping, or brainstorming. It does not matter what you call it. What matters is that it works.
The act of writing generates ideas, emotions, thoughts, feelings and images that tug at your heart and rouse you to laugh, cry, shout, or sing. And to vision. Though you may not know why you need to write, or what your thoughts will morph into, as a first step, it is the act of writing that is important.
At the rough draft stage of story or article development, free writing is welcome, necessary actually. At this stage, you need to see what is willing to come out.
The power of this kind of fast and loose writing is that it generates a positive into your mind and soul.
Name the Unnamable
Free writing says to your subconscious, and to pouring forth and name what was before unnamable, primarily your feelings and mental pictures. In this way, you can name, examine, share and release.
Knowledge is power. The power is in the writing.* By writing your fears, hopes and dreams, you pull them out of your subconscious where they may influence you without awareness into the light, where you can be in control of them.
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The Well Overflows
Free writing says to your infinite well-spring of creativity because every time, and I mean every time, you say to your infinite well-spring of creativity -- by writing down a line, a word, a phrase, or pages -- you're telling your subconscious to send you . The more you allow your creative ideas to flow, and the more you act on the creative thoughts by recording them as they arrive, the more they will zoom into your mind, pouring out of you like a crashing waterfall at high spring, fat with the snow melt.
Free up Brain Space
Contrary to the niggling worry that you are wasting your time, your freedom at the flash writing stage actually releases the static of worry. Because you’re clearing out the debris in the closet of your mind, you can better hear your intuition and creative mind whenever it shows up.
Free up brain space to write by first spending at least twenty minutes free writing before you dive into your project. This works well when you have an hour or more for your writing. If you only have fifteen to twenty minutes to write, a two minute list-making session serves the same purpose of getting it all out. In two minutes, and only two minutes, name all your concerns, worries, laundry list of to-do's that's clamoring for your time. And because you've set aside this five minutes to write, just list them. Tell yourself that you'll get to the to-do's later, but now you are focusing your creativity by writing your book or article for the next fifteen to twenty minutes. This is a decent length of time to write at least the start of a scene or outline an article.
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Self-Care
Lastly, free writing feels good. Otherwise why do it? Besides that, it's ! to move pen across paper, or fingers across keyboard. It is part of the care and feeding of your soul. You are taking care of yourself. Congratulations!
To recap, free writing generates ideas, says to your creative engine, frees up brain space and is an excellent way to take care of yourself.
Give yourself the gift of writing it all down.
Beth Barany teaches with structured free writes called Prime the Mind Free Writes(tm) and also uses them to write her own fiction writing.
inspired by *Secrets of a Millionaire Mind by Harv Ecker
c. 2007 Beth Barany
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"You write the story. The pen is in your hand."
-- The Secret
"Anything that makes you feel good is drawing in more. "
-- John Gray
"Your purpose is what you say it is."
-- Neale Donald Walsch
"Your passion becomes contagious."
-- Lisa Nichols
"Because you’re clearing out the debris in the closet of your mind, you can better hear your intuition and creative mind whenever it shows up."
-- Beth Barany
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