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Set the timer to whatever you're comfortable with. It might be 5 minutes or 10 minutes.
Start typing.
Don't stop until the timer tells you that it's time to stop.
Very simple. You just type whatever comes into your head. It's not the great big story you would expect to appear but the cobwebs of your mind has to be cleared away first. Then, come the real gems. Someone once said to me, "Trust the process" and this is what will be happening.
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I'm going to be the first one to start. So, here goes.
ReplyDeleteI want to demonstrate what can be done in 10 minutes. You can call it anything you want. Spring cleaning, decluttering, sweeping out the cobwebs, dusting, whatever. I just call it "Trusting the Process".
I do this because I know that it works. I've done it before and I've experienced that I've freed my creative mind of the clutter that inhibits my writing. I keep wanting that perfect words, the perfect sentences, the perfect scenes to come together every time I sit down to write but it doesn't happen that way.
Our minds go through a set of percolating stage where it mulls and churns all that we think, have seen or read, experienced, and will make up in order to pull everything into a coherent whole, in this case, hopefully a coherent whole story.
Some parts might not belong straight away to the story in mind or whole 10 minute sessions were a decluttering stage and served exactly as one.And not one session should be viewed as a waste of time. It's just the process.
Trust the process is so important, I feel, in the life of a writer because it's just works like exercise to one's body.
Time's up!