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In general, I don’t think I am much for spontaneity except when it comes to writing. In general, I like to plan things out. In college, I would get hung up on how to begin. Once I get started, I can knock it out. To assist with this an English teacher recommended that I start with an outline. So every essay I wrote in college began with the boring tedious outline. It was definitely and illustration of being confronted with something you spend a lot of energy trying to avoid, considering I would go to great lengths to avoid outlines from the very first day I learned to construct one.

 

I appreciate outlines and find them easy now, but as of late, I just ponder a few thoughts and an article or an angle for a short story or book just materializes seemingly out of thin air. I find that I am becoming addicted to this experience.

 

I also find that an angle I initially was focused one evolves into something else entirely as I begin to type. I’ll start an article with one thing in mind and then midway through new ideas and themes literally develop on the page. So I end up with two incomplete articles instead of one. Since I recognize it before I declare my work finished, I identify it for what it is… two articles instead of one. It’s a great surprise for a freelancer with many projects swirling in her head at any given time.

 

Try it, open a blank page, take whatever you’re pondering and see where it takes you. It’s a lesson in spontaneity and creativity. It’s a little different than free writing because you end up with multiple nearly finished pieces of work in addition to jump off phrases for other work but the concept is very similar.

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