( Freewriting Transcribed From Journals Again )I've drawn some attention recently, so I would like to take a moment to explain what freewriting is to me in case anyone operates under the misconception that I'm always writing about myself. (Hint: I'm not.)
I usually do it before I sleep to force myself to relax my mind and let everything go. The process of freewriting for me involves blanking my mind, thinking of nothing, and just putting the pen down on the paper and scribbling words out. Once it's over, I turn the page and don't think about it, reflect on it, or read anything I've written until days, weeks, or sometimes months later depending on how much freewriting I'm doing a month.
As a consequence, a lot of it is very repetitive. I've seen a lot of recurring themes and once I even found two of them many, many pages apart that were almost word-for-word copies of the other -- which is somewhat the point. I like to review the entries later to see what state of mind I was actually in. In a world of self-censoring, it encourages raw words and raw emotion. It's one of the most honest forms of writing there is.
It's very easy to lie to yourself. I am not an exception to this. No one is.
Those who believe they are are telling themselves another lie.
