I spent a long time freewriting, trying out different pieces of writing to see what resonated with me the most. It was easy to get absorbed into writing one particular thing, and it's given me some strong appreciation for how useful freewriting actually is.

All six pieces that I did were plucked out of dreams (or daydreams) that I've had floating around in my head. At first, I found it difficult to know how to translate them into a freewriting piece, but something clicked when I just kept my brain focused on a single subject.

I think that freewriting has become a good way to develop into other writing styles. I have a very distinct way of writing that doesn't work for all kinds of content or fiction, so accidentally freewriting into unfamiliar niches has given me room to experiment.

It's surprising how much of a difference a single keyword can make. One of my test pieces used nothing more than the word "North", and the written piece that I created was surprisingly in-depth for such a simple starting point.

Working with a notebook was harder than I thought, in a good way. Having to note down so many things on my own terms without necessarily having the full context of my own dreams meant that a lot of them blended together - in a good way.

It's rare that I write something with a prompt already in place, which changed the way I wrote here quite significantly. By working with an established set of notes, I had to carefully weave them into the text itself, even if that meant trying to combine things that needed some creative thinking to include.

I think the interesting factor here is my more mundane dreams. The fact that I often dream of industrial and brutalist locations in grounded settings opens up some interesting creative options, but it also means that a lot of my dreams are very similar. A lot of concrete, dirt, metal and harsh angular spaces means that I can put more emphasis on presenting that architecture to the reader - and combine different dreams into one continuous narrative.

I just wish I had dreams more often. Perhaps my sleep schedule is causing that.