It’s time for another session of writing about writing in an effort to continue generating prose. That topic is pretty consistently covered here. Really the overall writing plan is to keep writing during any given writing session to move beyond that part of the coverage and shift into other stream of consciousness based topics. Part of that effort is about just going where my thoughts take me instead of dialing in to coverage of a topic from the backlog. It’s reasonable to assume that just skipping the base writing projects and focusing all my efforts on backlog items only would be more productive. Sadly that would not be the case as sometimes the warmup writing is necessary. At the start of the day I’m not really able to just jump in and be absolutely productive. Maybe if I had jumped in and worked on things later in the day or toward the end of the day that type of backlog focused writing would be more possible.

Taking a moment to zoom out what I’m really trying to explain is that stream of consciousness based writing has a lot of merit to it as a form of creative expression. Just relaxing your mind and going in whatever direction happens to pick up movement can lean to all sorts of interesting writing projects. It’s also in some ways about learning to think out loud and just go with where that process takes you as a journey in and of itself. Ideally that leads me to some type of essay development or consideration of complex ideas, but a lot of the time it just produces an ongoing narrative about the very basics of daily writing. Its mundane and repetitive. At this point, I probably have well over a million words just about my feelings and thoughts about writing for the sake of writing. I’m not trying to get somebody to read that by publishing it out as a manuscript or anything. I’m aware that it was created and not particularly worried about that part of the process.

Right now, during the writing process for example, I could switch over and work on some type of project from the backlog. This would be the ideal time to make that switch. That switch might be the smart move at this point given that no real topic has grabbed my attention. It’s that spart of innovation or creativity that drives the best writing. At times, that thing that makes the best things just does not show up to the party and you have to move along with the business of writing instead of enjoying the fruits of being generally creative. I’m going to take my own advice at this point and make a switch to working on some other projects during this fine Saturday morning. This week should be a week of producing fine quality content. We will see if that happens, but it will take some time to know what really happens.

It turns out that I’m back here writing again. Some time has passed. I was thinking about the process of writing without making decisions. Part of that is just being in the flow of the writing process. It’s about creating and not getting overly focused on decision points along the way. Having to make decisions within the writing process over and over again will just slow things down and ultimately make the writing process slower and may just break any flow to the writing project.