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For me, writer's block is about me censoring myself too much before anything hits the page. It helps me to loosen that filter. I keep what I affectionately call my Absurd Journal. Note: I'm generally terrible at journaling... It's a place where I have permission to write anything regardless of how crazy, or if the wording is wrong, or if the grammar is off... (Sounds sort of like a message board...)
In some ways it's close to stream of consciousness - but that has never worked for me. That always feels forced and structured, and like I have to at some point judge the quality of my consciousness. My Absurd Journal is more like stream of consciousness tapped into the crazy. Two nights ago I wrote a bit about the majesty of fennel, and its lion-like green mane. Fennel, clearly the king of the strange underutilized vegetables. Fennel, it's what I had for dinner.
Giving myself permission to explore nonsense makes it easier to be creative about what I want to write. It works for me.
-M
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