"Freewriting Exercises" Dialogue

Freewrite is just what it sounds like, the ability to write without the editing and the ability of not worrying about what you are writing. Freewriting gives you ability to have a free range of your thoughts without having the discouraging views or editing of a red pen by an editor. This allows your thought process to follow more freely without closing yourself off with intruding thoughts that your ideas or words may not be good enough or may not even make sense to the reader.

I like the idea of just writing without stopping, proofing and making any changes, there will be time after you read what you have written to go back and make those kinds of changes. Why stop the creative follow by worrying about all the editing before you have written anything.  Doesn’t that really make sense? I was surprised on how one may think that writing and you are really focusing not on what you’re writing but how you’re editing it. The writer pointed out “editing doesn’t just make writing harder, it makes writing dead. Your voice is damped out by all the interruptions, changes and hesitation.” Think about that really does make sense when you’re writing a paper for class your trying to get your point our but how many times do you change what you’re about to say because you’re worried on how it’s going to sound instead of waiting until the end and going back and maybe cleaning it up. When you don’t wait till the end you have changed your thoughts you voice usually because you’re more worried about what someone else is thinking and not what you’re trying to tell them.

I hope that I can remember this every time I am trying to write. I really think that this may actually help me start something and really free up what I’m trying to say. I tend to over analyze what I think I’m going to write about without just writing about something and see where it leads.

Michelle