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How to do Stream-of-Consciousness
Choose  a  topic.  It’s  usually  best  to  focus  on  the  people  or  organisation  behind
whatever it is that irritates you. So don’t choose adverts, choose the people who
make  them.  It’s  not  the  trains  themselves,  it’s  the  people  who  run  the  train
company.
Write  for  10  minutes  on  your  topic.  Start  with  ‘It  irritates  me  because...’  and
write as much as you can. When you dry up, look at the prompts over the page.
Copy each prompt out and continue to write. The most important thing is to keep
going, to push through.
Turn off your internal censor, be prepared to be repetitive, just keep writing for
the set amount of time.
Have a break and then read it through, see if you can pick up on anything. Can
you take anything further? Can you use the statements that you have made as a
basis  for  word-play,  the  way  we  did  in  Writing  From  Newspapers?  Could  you
joke-web some of the ideas?

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