Free Writing Exercise. . . 


Rules for 'Free' Writing.

When we started, at 9 o' clock prompt, after a short introduction by our creative writing tutor, Gary Barker, we were introduced to the notion, and practice, of 'Free Writing'- a warm-up excercise commonly used by writers and creatives as a "wake up call" in their writing methods and techniques.

The rules were as followed...

1. Start immediately I give you the starting idea/phrase.

2. Don't think!

3. Keep writing, even if you think it's utter drivel.

4. Do not stop writing.

5. Do not lift your pen from the paper.

6. Do not edit.

7. Write faster than you normally would.

8. Don't worry about sentance structure, syntax, grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc.

9. Keep writing!

10. Don't think.

11. Don't edit.

12. Keep writing!

13. When I say stop, finish that thought (even though you are not thinking!) and then take a minute to quickly put in some punctuation that will help you read it out fairly fluently.

14. Do NOT edit- just add a few commas and fullstops.

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