Writing As A Thinking Tool

        Date:        May 25, 2010 3:37 PM

        Topic:        Writing Process

We tend to think of writing as an end result, but the process is very helpful to discover inner thoughts or create new ideas.

Joan Didion on the subject:

“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”Joan Didion quotes

E.M.Forerster on a similar theme:

“How can I know what I think till I see what I say?”

E. M. Forster quotes

Zen Writing

The process of writing can reveal ideas and thoughts in the unconscious mind that are not revealed by simply thinking about a problem and asking yourself for an answer. However one of the challenges in writing is knowing what to write. This technique avoids that problem.