Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content, 2nd Edition

Remove the “Mighty Specialness” of writing, until there’s nothing to stop you. This kind of writing is dirt simple, like putting on a sock.
Just some brain-draining, some noodling, going on here. Don’t expect lightning bolts

Thank you, freewriting. I can always count on you. You force me to be creative and productive when I’d rather hide

This technique will help you understand your world, spot opportunities and options, solve problems, create ideas, and make decisions. It’ll also help you become a better writer, both stylistically and idea-wise.

Freewriting is a fast method of thinking onto paper that enables you to reach a level of thinking that’s often difficult to attain during the course of a normal business day

One of Writing with Power’s chief techniques was free-writing, which I’d experienced in high school when teachers assigned it as punishment if the class was noisy, or to occupy us when they wanted to go to the teachers’ lounge and smoke. I thought of freewriting as hollow busy work.

By giving yourself a handful of liberating freewriting rules to follow, you back your mind into a corner where it can’t help but come up with new thoughts. You could call freewriting a form of forced creativity.

Freewriting is one of the most valuable skills I know. It’s a way of using your body to get mechanical advantage over your mind, so your mind can do its job better.