Rosenwasser & Stephen’s (2014) concept of ‘freewriting’ encourages the writer within.

The concept of ‘freewriting’ is a method that allows your hands to write what you are thinking continuously for a certain amount of time without editing the work. This allows the mind and hand to work in parallel. All thoughts and ideas are written down without stopping and once the time is over the writer can reflect on the piece and engage with the ideas and thoughts.

Not allowing self editing whilst writing creates a new way of thinking. Spelling mistakes and grammatical errors can be made whilst freewriting – keeping your train of thought. If you have to stop to check spelling or grammatical errors you may loose your ideas.

But more than that, editing on paper also requires you to self editing  your work ‘in your head’ and thus potentially losing the momentum on ideas or thoughts. By using this method, there is the potential of a myriad of ideas to flow.

Using freewriting has been a wonderful way of expressing my thoughts as well as producing new directions in my thinking. I find by using this method I am able to get my thoughts on paper and then come back later and reflect. This has allowed my thinking to evolve and new ideas to be emerge.

Reference

Rosenwasser, D. & Stephen, J. (2014).  Writing Analytically.  Boston, MA:  Wadsworth, CENGAGE Learning.  Seventh Edition.