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  • Lesson 1
    Seeing, Naming and Cutting
    • Part 1 – Using detail
    • Part 2 – Creating meaning
    • Part 3 – Editing your freewriting
  • Lesson 2
    Describing and Selecting
    • Part 1 – Ekphrasis
    • Part 2 – Point of view
    • Part 3 – Time for the editor
  • Lesson 3
    Reincorporating
    • Reincorporating elements in stories
    • Word strings
    • Freewriting from a micro-narrative
  • Lesson 4
    Finding the Beginning
    • Producing backstory
    • Desires and obstacles
    • The third stage
  • Lesson 5
    Listening and Revising
    • Freewriting dialogue
    • Editing dialogue
    • How many drafts?
  • Lesson 6
    Retrieving Memories
    • Freewriting and memory
    • Making a map
    • Freewriting a place
  • Lesson 7
    Turning Memory into Story
    • Memoir versus autobiography
    • Place and pattern
    • A break in the routine

Shaping and Editing Your Freewriting

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Freewriting
is Surrealist

Most creative writing guidebooks recommend freewriting, but they don’t mention its origin in Freud’s theories and Surrealist practice. If freewriting is magic, then going back to the source might be where the magic is strongest.

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