Coffee break exercise: Free-writing

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10 June 2022
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Free-write in longhand in this week's creative writing exercise.

Take a blank piece of paper and a pen or pencil. Without thinking too much about it, start writing.

Let your thoughts take you were they will, and write them down. Write until you fill a page, in any form. It doesn't need to be structured sentences and paragraphs. It might be a list, or a chart, or a mixture of words and doodles.

Look at your writing. How has your handwriting changed as the ideas began to flow? How have you expressed your ideas on the page?

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Why not pick out some of your favourite words and phrases and use them as a basis for a new piece of writing?

 

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