Automatic Writing
So whenever I'm trying to write and I'm not really feeling it or I don't know how to start I'll use a technique - favored by a lot of surrealists in the 20th century - called "automatic writing." It's where you start writing literally whatever comes into your head and don't think about what's coming out in an effort to pull something from your subconscious. It's a process that involves uninterrupted stream-of-consciousness and free association. I believe a few hip hop artists use the technique for their lyrics; the two I'm most aware of though are Heems and Kool A.D. of the former Brooklyn duo Das Racist . The things you write aren't entirely unplanned, there may be a word you'll latch onto that you throw in, but you're also not really pausing to think about what you're writing or what you're going to write next. It's the same thing Nathan, Oscar Isaac's character in Ex Machina (2015), talks about in his desc...