Throw everything at the wall

A few musings on self-censorship, dreaming, and why bad ideas are as valuable as good ones.

The writer Robert Olen-Butler put together a great video course about the writing process for fiction, along with his book From Where You Dream. It’s a must-have on any writer’s bookshelf. He advocates a kind of dreamspace for writing, rather different from ‘stream-of-consciousness’ or free writing.

He is, of course, a fiction writer talking about writin…