Freewriting Exercises

 Freewriting is used to help facilitate stronger and better writing. A freewrite is sometimes known as "babbling" or "automatic writing." It's meant to be mindless writing because it's not supposed to be judged on editing or the mistakes made. The only rule in freewriting is that you must write for ten minutes straight. We edit the grammer and punctuation as we write as well as unacceptable thoughts. So when we freewrite it lets are thoughts explore and be free. The writer can get incoherent because they are focused on editing or re wording the way something might sound. In freewriting it is non editing, if you practice freewriting on a regular basis it can make writing less blocked and your words will flow more easily from your brain to the tip of your pencil. While reading this article called "Free Writing Exercises" I was suppd that it actually helped your writing if done regularly.  Its very understanding that when we are writing we are constantly editing and rephrasing. I know that when I mess up a word my thought process is entirely thrown off or I get confused on what I would like to say next. Freewriting should be done in elementary school everyday before class starts and I'm positive that there test scores would improve. 
When we free write in class it is meant to help us generate ideas without feeling judged or scared about our writing. It is meant to help generate ideas and help us grasp the materiel. Once a week we do a ten minute freewrite which is accessible as a quiz. You have to keep writing without stopping to fix a word or fix grammar errors. The one requirement when writing a freewrite is to never stop. From the teachers stance she or he must not judge nor comment on the freewrite. To some, Freewriting may sound a little odd but there are many beneficial factors. For one, freewriting is non editing. The student is less likely to have blocked writing because they won't be focussed on editing the paper and rewording to make the text sound better. Instead they will be focused on the flow of the paper and the meaning of what they are trying to say. If you do freewriting on a regular basis your writing skills will improve immensely. 
I also found it suprising that freewriting can be anything that comes to your mind and you wont judge us or mark us down for it. I actually use to have a teacher that use to do this when I was in middle school and even though at the time I thought it was crazy of my teacher but now looking back it had a lot of benefits because it got the classes attention for the rest of the period. We were all more awake after she did it each class. The reading was surprising to me because I never new that writing like this could actually improve your writing.