The first Freewriting Adventure

1. Starbucks Freewriting Adventure on July 6, 2013 at Katipunan

The first Freewriting Adventure was held at Starbucks Katipunan on July 6, 2013 from 10a.m. to 4p.m. Back then, I referred to it as a writer's meet up and hadn't called it Freewriting Adventures. I posted the announcement on my blog and created a Facebook event.

I didn't have a plan on what we'd do, but I brought Writing Down The Bones and Wild Mind by Natalie Goldberg and The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron, which were books with many writing exercises. Hansky, one of the participants, brought his book The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp. We randomly chose the writing exercises from those books. Some of the exercises I invented on the spot.

The writing exercises we did were:

• write about your childhood fear 
• what was your first creative expression? 
• complete the phrase I don’t remember (I really like this exercise. It’s a peculiar experience to try to remember things that you don’t remember. The things you’ve forgotten are often unimportant, so it’s interesting to examine what those things are.) 
• pick a stranger in the room and describe his or her appearance and build a story around that person 
• recall a person you hate and describe that person and give that person a redeeming quality 
• write a short story in ten sentences 
• describe a place (a room, a forrest, an office) that will reveal the kind of person or community that occupies that space 
• write about your entire day from the time you woke up until the moment you arrived at the writers meet up

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