Let the Pencil take you away

Freewriting is a technique that we use at the beginning of the class for 5-10 minutes that lets us write whatever we want to without stopping. It lets you just write without even thinking and gets your brain strating. I think this technique is a very useful technique for college students, especially if we are the only person reading them. To me it's like journaling with no care in the world; you just write wherever the pencil takes you you go. It's such a unique topic since you can write about absolutely anything unless we get a topic we have to write about.

Looking back and my freewritings I have noticed a pattern. In most of my freewritings I just write out how I have been feeling through each week or day. It is kind of my mental reboot and reflection. I just write about things that have been stressing me out my week or my weekend, just overall my feelings. It is so nice to just get out some things that may be hard to put into words but you just write it out and it might not make sense to others, but it does to you. Through each week my free writings have gotten longer. I have learned to just let my pencil take me away and I just keep writing until I hear “Pencils down”.

Overall I think freewriting everyday before class is a very beneficial technique to just get your brain thinking. It is a great way to start off your day, especially a morning class. I like how we have some topics here and there, but most of the time we have the freedom to write whatever we would like to talk about. I think it is nice to just write and not care at times too. Grammar, ongoing sentences, repetition, anything like that in that moment does not matter. You just write for 5-10 minutes and don't care about mistakes. It is a very productful thing that I believe many people should take that 5-10 minutes out of their day just to write down whatever they want on that piece of paper.

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