Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Mon, Apr 19 2004
A Decongestant For The Writing Mind
I found a site with a nice, quick way to free up the old grey matter with a mere 60 seconds of word association. Check out oneword. After you post your thoughts you can read what others have written. I like the way this sort of exercise jogs other parts of the brain into action. We all have a bout with word constipation now and then, and this way of writing reminds me that the word is not the enemy, and the perfect word doesn't always have to be the most difficult one to find. Sometimes the perfect word is the one that frees me to write all the others around it. I have a crumpled piece of paper that floats around my computer area and sometimes ends up on my corkboard here to my left. It's for those inevitable moments when I crawl into a dead-end passage in my mind and get stuck trying to make the perfect sentence or phrase and end up writing nothing for long periods of time. It reads simply:
Don't think--write.
posted at: 11:19 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
I found a site with a nice, quick way to free up the old grey matter with a mere 60 seconds of word association. Check out oneword. After you post your thoughts you can read what others have written. I like the way this sort of exercise jogs other parts of the brain into action. We all have a bout with word constipation now and then, and this way of writing reminds me that the word is not the enemy, and the perfect word doesn't always have to be the most difficult one to find. Sometimes the perfect word is the one that frees me to write all the others around it. I have a crumpled piece of paper that floats around my computer area and sometimes ends up on my corkboard here to my left. It's for those inevitable moments when I crawl into a dead-end passage in my mind and get stuck trying to make the perfect sentence or phrase and end up writing nothing for long periods of time. It reads simply:
Don't think--write.
posted at: 11:19 | category: /Writing Life | link to this entry
