Absorption

Do you ever take the time to stop and look around you? To hear the birds? To see the tears? To just absorb? try it once in a while. Everything in this blog is what I absorb. What I notice. What I step back from the crowd to observe. Try it. See where you get.

Tuesday 20 May 2008

Spontaneus Writing

My last post was a piece of spontaneous writing, and this got me
thinking that I should make a post about it. For anyone else who wishes
to write, this is a completely invaluable tool, and can work on
anything, not just poetry. Stories too. So what you need to do is the
following:
  1. Find a quiet spot. Anywhere will do, your bedroom, you're kitchen, a beach, a rock on some god-forsaken island, anywhere - as long as it's quiet!
  2. Make sure you bring something to write on. Preferably not your arm. Never enough space. Trust me, I've tried it. And bring a pen too. Pencil's snap far too easily. If you have decided to write on the god-forsaken island, as stated above, you might want to bring a few pens. It could be a while before you're discovered.
  3. Now to the fun bit. Start using the globes in your head, alsoknown as your eyes and while you're at it use your ears too. A thing that I tend to do is sit perfectly still, and find a sense of calm within myself. From there you hear so much, that you would never hear before and see things that usually only your subconscious notices. Once you've found something you re drawn to, bring out the pen and write about it.
  4. Ignore a title. It's never good, in my book, to know what you're writing about when it's meant to be spontaneous. The purpose, is defeated.
  5. Start writing. And, this is the most important bit. Don't stop. Don't scrunch up the paper, score out lines, rub out things (You shouldn't be able to anyway - Read instruction 2.) or anything along those lines. Even if you write a load of gibberish (Trust me; the first 20-odd times I wrote something spontaneously it was a bunch of mixed up words).
  6. Once you're finished take a look at it. If your unhappy with your writing - tough. Stick it out. Keep it somewhere. You'll see why in a second. If you are happy with it, then look it over and give it a title you deem fitting. And type it up. Save it in a folder named poetry, or something like that, on your computer.
  7. Next time you do spontaneous writing you have two choices. You can either start something entirely new (Best to go to a new place.) or you go back to your original position, take your draft (Told you, you would need a copy) and using the same stimulus try again. Try to get it to make sense. Repeat step seven until your happy to finish step six. Then start all over again! Enjoy.

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