tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32734453.post8916056153442277220..comments2024-03-09T00:58:19.040-08:00Comments on THE WORLD IS A STAGE: Not the way I imagined it...JAY JOHNSONhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04209913484299156278noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32734453.post-57919212024341303732020-05-23T13:59:02.497-07:002020-05-23T13:59:02.497-07:00I didn't mention we had to write 5 minutes eac...I didn't mention we had to write 5 minutes each and every day ... that was the assignment...JCJohnsonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10306606063086311823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32734453.post-44093950986994348832020-05-23T13:57:04.937-07:002020-05-23T13:57:04.937-07:00Enjoyable post ... when I was in college my Englis...Enjoyable post ... when I was in college my English teacher (not a creative writing course just a basic plain old first year English course) ... he had us all do 5 minutes of what he called 'free writing'... you couldn't stop writing just because you couldn't think of anything you had to write non-stop for the FULL five minutes ... describe what you see, what you fell, what other people are doing or saying or just write about how you cannot think of anything just keep the writing going none stop.<br />Great writing exercise by itself ... BUT ... he told us we were on the honor system we had to do it but he wasn't going to collect them and grade them ... they were for our own benefit and we would be the losers if we didn't do it.<br />Well what did he do but at the end of the term tell us all he lied and he was collecting our free writing and it was going to be part of our final grade.<br />I had done the assignment for a couple of weeks religiously and then less and less because it wasn't going to be graded or checked so why not get lazy about it. <br />I had a 1 hour train ride into and home from college everyday so I just wrote non stop on the train for several days till I had enough. If you think doing 5 minutes of free writing makes you a better writer try ONE Hour!!!<br />And the bonus...now whenever I get writers block I just hope on a train to nowhere and the words just flow out of me. <br />(although I'm writing this during Covid19 lockdown so nobody's taking trains these days too dangerous ... empty parking lots at every train station... hey maybe this is the BEST time to take a train ride)JCJohnsonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10306606063086311823noreply@blogger.com