Writing process thoughts
I was at A Thing earlier today in relation to a projected performance thing relevant to my spheres of interest -
(no, it's not 'Sid: The Musical!')
- and we all took part in a free-writing exercise, which in my case turned out very free indeed, more like word associations, very little that might be considered coherent phrases or sentences -
Which, when you have been writing a lot of mannered, stylised, prose, is, I contend, interesting (we were obliged to read bits out and most of the others sounded rather less free-form).
Was also reminded of how freeing it can be to go damn the torpedos when writing an academic paper and not stopping to put in the cites. (Though sometimes this is just setting up trouble for down the line!)
Also, that although the prose I am writing may be stylised, the process of doing it as daily (more or less) installments with sometimes only the faintest of ideas of what is going to happen next has been surprising and unexpected. This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2416839.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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