Writing Development

Successful Strategies for Development

       

It has been 28 years for me since high school and being asked to develop my own story or ideas; through my work as a Mental Health Ombudsman I am given a particular situation with a particular problem, maybe a client’s rights have been violated in some way or there is a breakdown in communication. This doesn’t leave a lot of room for developing my own style so I feel a little out of touch as far as my writing abilities.  

 To be honest I don’t know that I have my own strategy for development other than maybe the occasional outline. I love brainstorming the problem at hand and getting as many perspectives as possible, but are these my own strategies? I was recently involved in a writing workshop   (through work) where we were given sentences and asked to complete them, and in previous classes we were given the assignment to free write for ten minutes on anything that came to mind, is this development I hope so?

In one assignment we were asked to go outside and given ten minutes, then asked to write a poem on something that stood out to us, it was up to the rest of the class to figure out what we were describing. At this point every day I am learning something new about writing and just trying to apply it and take it all in. I would like to try a combination of free writing with looping?