Kristine I don’t do it as much as I should anymore either. Years ago I was very good about practicing this exercise, but now it’s only from time to time. Maybe inspiring you to get back into it will get me back into it. I do practice writing though outside of this blog. Even in emails to friends I try to make them more than a quick hello.

Mark, freewriting, thank you. I was trying to think of that term yesterday when writing this post and I couldn’t recall it. I went with spontaneous writing instead. I’m pretty sure the practice goes under a few names, but freewriting was what it was called when I first heard about it.

I think I wrote a few of those “I have nothing to write about” sessions at first, but it doesn’t take long till you start writing something more.

The idea was eventually you would get bored of writing “I have nothing to write about.” over and over and start writing about something else.

On a different note, I am glad you linked to your remarkable blog from this post. I had not read that previous post before and was very glad to have discovered it. I know many people advice to link internally for SEO purposes but I think pointing readers to other good posts is even a better reason to do so.