ABSTRACT
This chapter gives the readers specific strategies for experimental thinking that can help them generate new ideas for their writing. Thinking is not an isolated and specific activity reserved for the planning part of the writing process. The drawback in being an ‘A’ style writer is that sometimes you can over plan and get enmeshed in detail too early in the writing process. If you allow only the first (and often most pedestrian) ideas to develop and cut off new lines of thought, the result is unoriginal, ‘canned’ writing. Whatever your predominant writing style, your success as a writer depends on your ability to match your thinking and writing to the task at hand. One way to do this is to use the strategies of experimental thinking to help you explore a subject or problem creatively.
