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RE: The Weekend Freewrite | Sick Mission
It's been a while since I attempted one of these. I've loved doing them in the past, I must get back to them. Amazing stuff comes out. Generally, my first section would be the longest, the second shorter and the last section only a sentence or two, but I see you gained momentum as you went along.
This is an excellent first weekend freewrite.
And what is this you don't consider yourself to be a creative writer?! I've read a few stories by you I believe, and you always excel. ## Header 2
:) Thanks, @owasco.
I guess I belong to a oral tradition culture that fosters retelling of stories; there may exagerations and other narrative devices, but the story pretty much remains the same. Creating stories out of the blue is a different skill that this kind of excercise demands. It is funny though how after I read the second prompt and decided that I'd quit, some idea for adjusting the first part of the story to something related to "marital visits" crept in and determined the outcome of the story, which would have been very different had I kept the initial direction.
I do like to tell stories; I am trying to learn some tools and skills to tell them better.
check out @kimberlylane's freewrite I just resteemed. She knows how to do this. It's about letting yourself go, writing without judgment or goal, just letting the story tell itself to YOU. Check her out. @improv does it too. Poetry is even better. Just do it everyday and I am pretty sure you will be hooked. And great at it.
I did. Her work is really amazing. That's the kind of "rambling" I envied from the creative writing guys I met in grad school. I had already read @improv's stuff. He is also great and funny. He reminds me of what some comp & rhet people suggested when one was hit by writer's block: "just keep writing, whatever comes to mind, even if it is..'I can't think of anything to write about so I'm writing about not knowing what to write about...' something eventually will come up."
try the most dangerous writing app to get the hang of it. When I'm stuck, I have a go with that app and it opens my mind up. I rarely end up with something I would publish, but the one time I did it was really good.
and if your country's oral tradition creeps into your freewrites, that would be an excellent thing. I would love them.