That title is inaccurate, but I've gone with it because it is more picturesque.
I've been cleaning out the piles of papers I've had boxed up for years as I prepare to move next month. (As a trained child of lay-it-away-for-the-future-ers, I've found a lot.)
I liked the rhythm of this particular freewrite. (Set a timer, and write the whole time, pen never stopping.) At the time of the notebook I discovered it in, I was a writing lab tutor at Snow College. I'm fairly sure I was attempting to either jump-start or convince myself to write one of the weekly self-critique papers I had for my tutoring class, which was meant to show what I had seen work and not work during my time in that lab that week. Here it is, circa 2006, 7 or 8:
Alicia. Running her paper was a little wordy I helped her by doing something helped helped helped helped pointing out by reading having her read helped a lot I need to go extrapolate and type this up Time is slow thank goodness Oh man I want to leave concentrate Having her read helped her a lot and doing good concentrate she started picking it out herself too many words stuffed into things Oh gosh I love sugar why is that something I need sleep Um when she also needed comparison I helped her with that I need to also talk about the times she worked or sugar I mean what was it specific details nice and love to pieces --> food, always stops in all of those things that makes her cool and she was able to see that after just working on the 1st half of 2nd paragraph I need understanding with the questions about Craig it helped a lot and she could tell what was lacking about Jo 1st paragraph intro thinger was a little unorganized so out of it I helped her figure out how she wanted it all to relate to the thesis I think I can go write this now.
