Freewriting with FocusWriter
10 days so far of 10 minute dailies.
Recently @vit posted How to Give Impact Feedback on Writing in which he brought up a book that I haven't read in years, Writing Without Teachers. It caused me to find mine and also purchase the follow up book Writing With Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process which should be here soon. Peter Elbow starts the books out espousing the benefits of free writing exercises for their ability to help a person develop the base skill of actually writing. This was a very important exercise for me as a child and helped me develop my writing. I did not keep up the free writing though and have now re-discovered how useful it is.
I went with 10 minutes of dedicated free writing which at this point is amounting to journaling. Each day I have gotten about 400 to 500 words written in the 10 minutes. The bad ass part of the FREE FocusWriter program is that is gives me a very basic layout that removes all the distractions of my desktop and shows me my running statistics. I have set the daily goal at 10 minutes so it shows the running percentile as I am typing. There are a number of options for preferences and you can set various themes. It even gives a streak calendar to show you your achievement.
I am saving my dailies as .txt files as it keeps them super small size and it is only basic text without pictures and any extraneous.
The best part of the daily free writing is that it is forcing me to write. I am going to be upping my daily time by 1 minute on the first of every month so by this time next year I will be writing for 20 minutes daily. My whole goal with this process is to force the habit of writing. I have had a major withdrawal aspect from writing these past years while my head was not quite right. Now that I am getting a handle on my head, body, and ambition I am finding I have a strong need to write. Since it has been years since I have actively written, from a creative side, not just a personal blog form.
I have shit tons of stories that roam the insides of my head and a number of them have real potential, it is just making myself sit down and type them out. If I can get myself to stop the diaries and start working on story lines during my daily free writings then I should be able to actually advance them and potentially finish them.
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