Freewriting

Freewriting is an idea generation technique used commonly authors, prose writers and others commonly in the area of literature. First coined by Dorothea Brande in 1934, where she simply advises to 'sit and write for 30 minutes every morning'. The freewriting technique usually involves continuous writing for a set period of time, and mainly focuses on disregarding all boundaries of writing; there is no regard to grammar, spelling, and makes no corrections. Straying off-topic is encouraged, and one does not stop writing unless the train of thought is ended and the writer is stuck, or the time is up.

Freewriting allows for divergent thoughts to be expressed spontaneously and makes room for more idea and concept generation by the disregard for the normal structure of writing. As freewriting is lead by the writer's thoughts, connections between indirectly related concepts can be made and more abstract views can be seen where it might be hard to visualise normally. Unlike brainstorming, there is no graphics involved and just words and unlike brainwriting, it is an individual technique.