I experimented with some free writing recently on vacation.  I was very apprehensive bc I was ashamed and afraid to think the things I thought.<p>But I found it was immensely valuable to me.  I wouldn&#x27;t obsess over the rules like pen vs. typing.  And I do think it&#x27;s different from playing music or cooking because of the verbal layer.<p>Writing down your thoughts blazes new trails, modifying your subjective experience.<p>By free writing, I don&#x27;t mean, random, I mean, not directed toward publishing or even paragraph&#x2F;prose structure.  A thin editing layer between raw thoughts and written&#x2F;typed media.