Self-Rewriting: What Makes As A Writer?

For Elbow (2000), Goldberg (1986), Badenhorst (2007, 2008) and Murray (2009), freewriting is a process rather than a product. Elbow (2000) claims that freewriting removes most of the risks and constraints involved in academic writing. By removing self-imposed constraints, for example, to always write perfectly and fluently, freewriting puts life into writing by allowing voice, energy and presence to emerge. Writers begin to ‘speak’ on paper (Elbow 2000, 86). Further, when writers regularly do freewriting, they obtain satisfaction and pleasure from it. Writing becomes an occasion of discovery rather than
drudgery.