10 Writing Exercises to Free Your Mind

For two years I wrote with a few other writers every Thursday evening. We were taught, and then continued on our own, with the practice of freewriting. Over the months, it became apparent that to keep out of patterns, to keep our inspiration fresh, we had to use...

How Freewriting Saved My Life

Freewriting . . . Unimpeded and nonstop writing to a prompt and for a set time, in which you give yourself permission to write “whatever comes” . . . saved my life. Well, it didn’t perform CPR, but it saved my life anyway. My imaginal life. You see,...