So I just had my first creative writing seminar at uni. We spent most of the two hours reading the module outline out loud ??? (I know I’m terrible but I have never seen the point in reading things like that out loud in class. I can read myself).

Anyway the one bit of writing we did was what they called “automatic writing” where without stopping, censoring, correcting etc. we had to write about someone we knew well and precisely describe what they were likely doing at that moment.

I learnt two things

1) it’s really easy to get off the point when I am basically just free typing

2) my typing speed was 1154 words in 15 mins. That is how fast I can type – crucially though it is NOT how fast I can write as stream of consciousness isn’t writing.

I hope we actually get to do something fiction/creative related next week. It was the first ever session so it was bound to a bit slow.