Thursday, August 26, 2010

Freewriting Excercise 1

Opening the barn doors to my brain. That is what I think of Freewriting. I remember last semester starting freewriting and I was thinking how great it felt to just go for it, let the thoughts and themes and any crazy idea I have just flow out. I really love poetry and feel like this is close to what it must feel like for natural poets to just break loose and whip out the masterful interconnected thoughts that can melt hearts and Blow minds. Where do I go next? I just write about a theme that comes to me and detail it or draw up a chart in my head that shows the lnks to side stories and hidden stages of events that might transpire while I'm still coming up with some kind of creative place to try to organize it all into something semi cohesive but why? Is it a freewrite? or an organization? a critic will look at it and find many ways to blast it but there it is still hanging around waiting for the next time I grab my laptop or pick up my pen. Freewriting is like pure just doing.
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5 comments:

  1. LaurenSAugust 26, 2010 at 10:24 PM

    Hi Eric,

    I like the analogy you make between freewriting and poetry. Freewriting does help a writer unlock ideas; it's power is in helping to provide the material, the ideas, that the writer will later organize and revise into a coherent essay for an audience.

    Thanks for the ideas.

    Lauren

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  2. BrittanyAugust 28, 2010 at 2:59 PM

    Hi Eric,

    I thought it was great how you thought of freewriting as how it feels to write poetry. I never thought of it that way and it makes sense to me too. Poetry is very beautiful, and it is not perfect. It's all about the writing and some of the best writers are poets.

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  3. bettejo chaseAugust 28, 2010 at 6:37 PM

    Eric

    I have been writing a sort of postry for some family grouping of photes. I would have never linked it to freewriting without your comments. That is exactly what I do. Jotting down words and phases sometimes on different paper at different times then organizing them. Sometimes I can present them as is. Thanks for the insight.

    BetteJO

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  4. anaj91August 29, 2010 at 11:35 PM

    I totally get you. I love poetry. I have not written in forever. I have had not had time like I did before, but that is how i feel. It's like my free writing is an outlet. I think about something and just write.

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  5. no longer using siteAugust 30, 2010 at 9:59 PM

    hey eric--
    i'm not sure where to post a personal message--janelle and i sat next to you in drivers ed. also you're friends with jerry d. right? i hung out w/ many of the same people after high school. you know, santa rosa.
    anyway, nice to "see" you around here.

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