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This year we have been spending some time with freewriting to images. The rationalle behind this can be found in this quote by Thomas Edison: "To invent, you need an imagination and a pile of junk." When we are freewriting, our goal is not to produce a good piece of writing, our goal is simply to produce writing that can, at a later date, provide us with the raw material for an inventive text. Here is a picture that we recently wrote about.



Freewriting:

Last night I dreamed that I was skateboarding down a long hill at high speeds, sitting and doing powerslides to slow myself down. I was being chased, but I was much faster than my pursuer.

Later I found myself in a room with other people. Women and men--a kind of communal setting.

Still later I am in a classroom with two other teachers. We have watched a movie. there is a Hawaaian shirt involved somehow.