Stream Writing

i have bad ADD so i cant seem to do it.. i can start writing about something then ramble for pages but not start from a cleared mind

yes i have done with writing fiction (my thing is non fiction and i have sold quite a bit) but i tend to suck at writing fiction, especially the dialogue part but i still enjoy just writing down a story once in a while even if i am the only one that will see it.

that is how i wrote my first novel...i just started writing and kept writing until the end without stopping even though i would write junk in the process along with the interesting stuff. i figured that i would delete the junk out during editing phase. and when i came upon a writers' block, i used some writing exercises from one of Natalie Goldberg's books. and just kept going, keeping it flow until the end. when finally i couldnt go anywhere, even with the writing exercises, which hinted that i need to start writing the conclusion, the finale. the conclusion chapter turned out to be the longest chapter, but a closure to the novel. then i went thru editing for like 20 times, until i finally self published it. what a process..

we used to do this in my writers craft class. We all had our own writers craft journals and at the beginning of class we would all stream write and then read them out loud. I had forgotten about this method unti you mentioned it, I want to try it agsin today. Thanks Lizard.