Sunday, March 9, 2008

Just Write

Select a vivid memory and write about it. Write everything that comes to your mind. Don't worry about grammar or even the coordination of thoughts. Just be concerned with getting this memory on paper. Then put the writing away for a minimum of a week. In the meantime, you can write another memory on another day. Continue doing this. When at least a week since writing the memory has passed, (longer is good) bring it out and read what you wrote. It's likely that new thoughts about the event will surface. You can also work on polishing the grammar and sentence structure a bit to give it a story feel, rather than random thoughts about the subject.

3 comments:

Gayle McCain said...

Why do we need to wait a week?

Thanks,
Gayle McCain

www.gaylemccain.blogspot.com

Suzanne Lieurance said...

Hi, Etta,

What a great idea. I'm always surprised at how vivid memories are when I read back over ones I've recorded.

You should do an online workshop about this. Let's talk about it.

Suzanne Lieurance
The Working Writer's Coach
http://www.workingwriterscoach.com
"When Your Pen Won't Budge, Read The Morning Nudge"

Terry Finley said...

Good idea...thanks for sharing.

Terry Finley

http://terryrfinley.blogspot.com/