Deep Freewriting: How to Masterfully Navigate the Creative Flow

Freewriting is the practice of writing without stopping and seeing what turns up. Deep Freewriting takes it further, into hours instead of minutes, and into the state of flow that long, unbroken sessions can open up.

The book draws on 8-, 12-, and 24-hour writing marathons and lays the practice out in seven modules, each with writing exercises you can try at the desk. Along the way it covers:

• finding the flow state and staying in it
• writing faster, which often leads to better writing
• getting past procrastination and writer's block
• putting the inner critic to work instead of trying to silence it
• making room for mess and creative chaos
• organizing complex thoughts on the fly

It's a book on writing for writers, students, and creative professionals, and for anyone who keeps a journal and wants a deeper kind of focus from it.

Stephen Lloyd Webber has taught writing at the university level since 2006 and has led writing immersion retreats since 2010.