It releases my mind to think things it has never thought before.
To draw conclusions
To draw connections
To take things farther than I would have in my natural brevity
To discover how I really think about it
Freewrites are fuel, and fire.
They are difficult. It's hard for me to write without stopping, without correcting my spelling, without clarifying what I wrote. Sometimes I think I don't have enough thoughts on an idea to write about it for five or ten minutes. But it works. It helps me discover. The disorganization helps me organize. And if everything I wrote turns out to be junk, it's ok. I wrote. And someday I might come back and find a gem.
