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Why Being A Stream Of Consciousness Writer Can Unlock Your Hidden Potential

Dominic Medford
3 min readApr 19, 2024
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It is so common for me to be staring at the black screen, trying to reach deep inside to create the perfect type of text to display to an audience. I am consciously deciding each and every word that exits my mind and makes its way onto the screen.

This brick by brick process is quite distinguishable to my stream of conscious writing that is only unlocked on occasion. Clearly visible on the basis that it is sequential and free flowing rather than disjointed.

How often is it that when you are reading someone’s work you can spend hours with there work and feel as though you are with them and are inside of their existence. You have been absorbed into their mind so that you are now their eyes and you are seemingly the decision maker of their actions.

The ability for a writer to allow you to be absorbed into their work is not without great skill. It is the art however of making this occur seamlessly and without the sense that you have been absorbed into there work. All it would take is for a chink in their writing, a word that doesn’t align with their past vernacular, a non-sequential leap of their thought process to abruptly disconnect who from there world.

The balance of this masterful writing. This ability to be discerning in your curation of…

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Dominic Medford
Dominic Medford

Written by Dominic Medford

Law and Political Sciences student in Australia who dabbles in writing about his thought processes in his spare time with the hope that it can be insightful.

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