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How To Freewrite To Get Ideas For Your Essay

By Exforsys | on July 6, 2006 |
Essay Writing

How To Freewrite To Get Ideas For Your Essay

Freewriting is an easy exercise which will allow you to greatly enhance your essay writing skills. It doesn’t require a large amount of time, and because of this, it is an excellent tool for people who are suffering from what is called writer’s block.

It is also a good way to come with ideas for your story. By learning how to freewrite, you will be able to take your essays to the next level. If you are suffering from a bad case of writer’s block, freewriting will allow you to come up with ideas for a story or essay.

The first thing you will want to do is sit down at a desk with paper and a pen. It is best do conduct this exercise in a place which is quiet. If you are in a place which is loud or crowded, you may find it hard to concentrate. This is especially true if you’re the type of person that is easily distracted. If you are not easily distracted, this exercise can be done anywhere. While this exercise should only last ten minutes, you can write for as long as you like. If you want to write for exactly ten minutes, you will want to get an alarm and set it for this time. Then you will want to write until the alarm goes off.

Once the alarm starts, you will want to begin writing. It is important to make sure you never allow your pen to leave the sheet of paper. If you have set the timer, you will want to do this until it goes off. You can write about anything you want, even if it is something you consider to by silly. This is why it is called freewriting. It allows you to put your thoughts on a piece of paper. Once the alarm has gone off, or you are tired writing, take the time to look over what you wrote. Determine if you see anything that you find to be interesting. If you do, you can use it to start writing your own essay. If you don’t find anything you find to be interesting, there is nothing wrong with this. You will want to keep trying. The goal of this exercise is get your thoughts on a piece of paper.

If you are familiar with the essay format, you may be wandering why I’m asking you to freewrite in order to develop the skills to write a good essay. After all, the essay is precise and organized, while freewriting is messy and disorganized. The reason why freewriting is important is because it allows you to form ideas in your mind. When you write an essay, you will need to be able to quickly develop ideas in your mind for how you want to write a sentence. While the sentences must be organized, freewriting will teach you how to develop ideas in your mind which can be used to quickly create powerful sentences or generate ideas for stories.

While it isn’t crucial that you use an alarm for this exercise, doing so will give you balance. When you look at the piece of paper you wrote, you may not find anything which seems to be useful. You may even think that freewriting is nonsense. However, it has been said that practice makes perfect, and this is true. If you continue to freewrite, you will find that your random sentences and words will eventually start forming ideas which you may find to be extremely useful. When you write an essay, it is important to have a good idea of what you’re interested in writing about. The thesis should already present in your mind before you type one word.

To be a good writer, you must have the ideas in your mind before you begin writing about them. If you have to think about what to write while you’re writing, this can damage the outcome of your work. Writer’s block is a problem that even the best writers run into every so often. They just can’t seem to find any good ideas. Freewriting is a technique you can use to solve this problem. Another method your can use to overcome writer’s block is simply reading the works of others. Don’t limit yourself to a specific topic. Read about different topics, even things that you normally wouldn’t be interested in. This will allow you to come up with ideas.

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