Writing Open the Mind by Andy Couturier is a book containing lots of exercises and experimental techniques for writing.
The subtitle of the book is “Tapping the Subconscious to Free the Writing and the Writer”.
I’m planning to work through the exercises in the book and discuss some of them in a sequence of posts.
Technique the Ninth is called “Shuffle the Nuggets, Re-sequence the Mind”. The process is:
- start with an existing piece of writing
- underline short sections of sentences (between three and six words)
- choose seven or nine of these short phrases and write them on index cards
- shuffle the cards, lay them out and write for twenty minutes – the same words are kept in the same order, but anything can be written in between
The results of my experiment with this exercise are here: A piece created from the “Shuffle the Nuggets, Re-sequence the Mind” exercise
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