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FAQs as answered by founders Linda Trichter-Metcalf and Tobin Simon.
Used with permission © 2006.
For more FAQs please visit the corporate PW site at http://www.pwriting.org
Q: How does PW differ from other process-writing methods like stream-of-consciousness writing, free writing, journal writing, writing down the bones, and morning pages?
A: PW is the only writing practice that encourages you to slow your thoughts and focus on what we call Òinner hearing,Ó on listening to them with empathy and curiosity and reflecting on them in writing. Other process writing focuses only on expression. PW focuses on both expression and reflection.
Q: How does PW help writers, both professionals and those who want to write for publication?
A: Although you don't learn the writer's craft through PW, it can help writers immeasurably in other ways. It can relax you and refresh you. It can generate raw material that you can develop in your writing projects. It can inspire your imagination. It can instill confidence in your writing voice. It can unblock you. On the most basic level, it can lay down the foundation for writing discipline.
Q: How does PW promote creativity?
A: People have blocks to creativity for all kinds of reasons. These may reside in your memories (some going way back to childhood), in your emotions, and in your attitudes, values, and belief systems. By bringing these into the open through attention to your ideas and feelings, the PW method begins to break up these blocks.
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