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Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content

by Mark Levy

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When it comes to creating ideas, we hold ourselves back. That's because inside each of us is an internal editor whose job is to forever polish our thoughts so we sound smart and in control and so we fit into society. But what happens when we encounter problems where such conventional thinking fails us? How do we get unstuck? For Mark Levy, the answer is freewriting, a technique he's used for years to solve all types of business problems and generate ideas for books, articles, and blog posts. Freewriting is deceptively simple: start writing as fast as you can, for as long as you can, about a subject you care deeply about, while ignoring the standard rules of grammar and spelling. Your internal editor won't be able to keep up with your output ?you'll generate breakthrough ideas and solutions that you couldn't have created any other way. Levy shares his six secrets to freewriting as well as fifteen problem-solving and creativity-stimulating principles you can use if you need more firepower ?seven of which are new to this edition. Also new to this edition: an extensive section on how to refine your raw freewriting into something you can share with the world.… (more)
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Simple proposition but effective: free write yourself into a new transformed self. A bit cliche and rough around the edges but i found this book very useful and inspiring. ( )
  yates9 | Feb 28, 2024 |
An entire book on free writing! That's little too much to chew. The book extols the virtues of free writing and presents the hints and examples to get started start with it right away. I liked certain passages of the book and skimmed through the examples (real use cases). My favourite sections are warm up exercises, chunking, creating a text collage and writing marathon. ( )
  harishwriter | Oct 12, 2023 |
Good advice that I would like to try. The author uses anecdotes to demonstrate the power of free-writing as a problem-solving tool, and also a technique to kickstart actual writing.

It should be viewed as a general advice and how-to for free-writing, and it is not a scientific or evidence-based exploration of its effects, and work. It contains various exercises to help you along, and is good by way of introduction to the subject. ( )
  moukayedr | Sep 5, 2021 |
Fiction writers need only read the first 46 pages. ( )
  TromboneAl | May 4, 2018 |
Great method for finding your actual writing voice. ( )
  tangentrider | Aug 27, 2015 |
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When it comes to creating ideas, we hold ourselves back. That's because inside each of us is an internal editor whose job is to forever polish our thoughts so we sound smart and in control and so we fit into society. But what happens when we encounter problems where such conventional thinking fails us? How do we get unstuck? For Mark Levy, the answer is freewriting, a technique he's used for years to solve all types of business problems and generate ideas for books, articles, and blog posts. Freewriting is deceptively simple: start writing as fast as you can, for as long as you can, about a subject you care deeply about, while ignoring the standard rules of grammar and spelling. Your internal editor won't be able to keep up with your output ?you'll generate breakthrough ideas and solutions that you couldn't have created any other way. Levy shares his six secrets to freewriting as well as fifteen problem-solving and creativity-stimulating principles you can use if you need more firepower ?seven of which are new to this edition. Also new to this edition: an extensive section on how to refine your raw freewriting into something you can share with the world.

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