I’m in the process of preparing a
workshop titled, The Art of Balancing Writing and a Full Time Job, for the
Northern Colorado Writers Conference in April. In the workshop I’ll discuss a
technique I adapted from Julia Cameron’s Morning Page concept described in her
book The Artist’s Way. Recently when
I taught another workshop, a book was recommended to me, Writing Down the Bones, Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie
Goldberg. I’ve just completed reading it, and it has some excellent suggestions
for all of us writers. Natalie recommends a technique called a Timed Exercise
to write continuous for a specific amount of time such as ten, twenty or sixty
minutes. She gives six rules:
- Keep
your hand moving
- Don’t
cross out
- Don’t
worry about spelling, punctuation, grammar
- Lose
control
- Don’t
think. Don’t get logical
- Go
for the jugular
Much like Julia Cameron’s Morning Pages,
this is a way to get in touch with our creativity by diving in and writing
non-stop. Try it. You’ll find the results fascinating.
1 comment:
Hi Mike,
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