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By: Robin Easton

Robin Easton — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:29:41 +0000

Dear Orna, I have been buried in work and haven’t done much blogging but I just read you article FREE WRITING under you “writing advice” section and it is amazing. I stumbled it and bookmarked it and am going to try this as it is very similar to the way I already write. But I feel it might strengthen some things in my writing. I find this very exciting and am eager to try it when I get a break from work. It just seems like something that would really work for me. I find it very liberating and spontaneous, like Life itself. A lot like how I live Life. Thank you so much for sharing this.

You are in my thoughts and I am sending you hugs and love.
Thank you for touching my heart in so many ways.
Love,
Robin

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Sat, 14 Feb 2009 20:06:33 +0000

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By: Orna Ross

Orna Ross — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:06:28 +0000

Absolutely! Your contributions are always wonderful and utterly welcomed.

By: Steve (Honest Abe) Manning

Steve (Honest Abe) Manning — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:55:42 +0000

In the interest of stimulating discussion ( why hasn’t anyone else picked up on this?) let me say this has been a constant practice of mine for years. Although you have a better and more precise framework for it, I was taught something like free writing or just WRITE as 1. practice, as in learn by doing; 2. mental exercise, as in enlarging vocabulary; and 3. unblock the monkey mind (she who censors and is timid and creates self-doubt). I was educated in journalism so had to deal with deadlines and used this technique often when I could not think of a lead sentence after doing loads of research but couldn’t pin it down. Why not “Now is the time for all good men to come to etc. and in addition Valley Forge was cold in winter. It always had been and was again. But they stuck it out……” You get the idea, just get it flowing and when something good happens go back and cut out the garbage.

I’m also a painter and do something similar at the easel. For years I have looked at the canvas or paper and traced an imaginary wire sculpture and then drawn it with a nervous brush or pen. One can always go back and paint over it but who knows it might look better than the original idea.

As in 4 above, “… great ideas emerge, seemingly from nowhere.”

Thank you for your insight and providing this forum. I hope I am not abusing it, but it seems to me that this type of sharing is the genius and promise of electronic communication.