Elbow Freewriting Summary

In Elbow’s” Freewriting”, he suggests that freewrinting is the most effective technique to improving a person’s writing ability. Schools have shaped us to be fixated with correcting our mistakes and therefore creating a distraction that impedes our ability to continuously write. This distraction hurts our trend of thought, creates hesitations and makes us doubt ourselves creating a write block. Elbow proposes that our writing should be able to come to us naturally just like if we were speaking to someone. Freewriting is meant to undo the normal perception of being incorrect and having the ability to just edit of the mistakes later. Elbow suggest freewriting for at least three time a week for ten minutes improves a person’s ability to write.