Lucynda Storey-Erotic Romance Writer

I didn’t realize it, but I enjoy timed writing.

Last night, I attended a workshop in which that was all we did.  Various and assundry pieces of timed writing.  I liked it.  A lot.

Why?  It provided a jump start to my creativity.  It is non-judgmental.  I knew I wouldn’t be sitting in my seat for two hours trying to “come up with” something.  It had an end.

With timed writing, your body knows, it knows that there must be a beginning, a middle and most definitely an end.  The end is often a pithy sentence of clarity we didn’t even know we had within us.

Timed writing, like Julia Cameron’s morning pages, helps us clear our thoughts, dump the junk that may actually get in the way of our producing something better.  When we sit down to do the work, we can actually do the work.

The simplest plot is to know that there is a problem, to take an action, and then find a resolution.  Timed writing can allow us to go through these steps in a much more natural process.

Try it.  Set a timer for four minutes.  When it goes off, mentally tell yourself that now  you must wrap it up.  See what your mind creates.  Look for the arc, the beginning, middle and end.  Drain from your brain the worries and appointments and shopping lists and all the “to do’s” cluttering your mind. 

Now you’re really ready to create.