Thank you so much....I have struggled to be better in writing but have failed to cultivate the practice of writing always...I am even scared to go for a PhD program because of the fear of writing...I dread no more my journey to becoming a great writer starts today

Nicholetta Demetriou, thank you for your educated insights and thought provoking concepts for writing. Far from boring, your charm and vocals made listening a melody. You enunciated and spoke with clarity. As a writer, I have, for many years now, created the white space you mentioned, to write for fifteen minutes first thing in the morning. It is a superb suggestion. Thank you.

That was a big exercise in high school creative writing. We started every class with 15 minutes of unthinking stream of consciousness freewriting. Similar idea to some artistic exercises where you draw without looking or without picking the pencil off the paper.

Here is a suggestion of a warm-up exercise. Don't do sentences, just let your hand do words. The and though dog dough then why so sow rake barn dog frog goat store clerk and so on. And when these random words have come out and warm-up is over you will easily start making sentences without much effort even if it is a sentence between the words or not. Removing the restriction of feeling like it must be sentences can make your mind go blank on where to start.

She is so right. That's how I see it as the morning before I'm even totally awake I write and it's the best I've done.

Up to this moment, I never actually thought there would be people who upheld this practice, I would ideally wake up in the morning, with the sole intent to just write anything, put it up on my blog and do so the next day. On some days it would be difficult, and others chill- knowing that people practice this very habit is really encouraging for me at this point in time.

Thank you so much for this!! One of the best tedx talks indeed! I ve been writing a journal everyday for half a month now, and all of this is true! It does transform , help you connect to yourself and see what needs to be changed in your life. I re-read it sometime later and see how i progressed as a person (or regressed), how much pain i have or how impulsive i am. Such observations about myself help me to become my own best friend.

This could be considered a form of meditation! Thanks for sharing

One of the best talk I ever heard Calming Meaningful Helpful

I'm in! I love the idea of finding and listening to my own voice amidst all the "traffic".

Nicoletta was able to point out the very germane concept of writing to my class. Such an enlightening talk. I am actually showing this to my students to inspire them to love and start writing on their own. Kudos to the speaker and thank you for sharing your experiences, too.

I also think that I should write something every day at least for sometime but I find myself surrounded by strange fear of putting pen on a paper but after watching this information and transformative video I gathered courage to begin. I will continue until I feel some sort of miracles in my personal and professional life.

One could take the transcript of this and SAVOR each and every thought she expresses, which may populate each phrase or sentence with vast ideas that could lead one in many directions. This was a RICH discourse ! I found myself pausing it often, sometimes several times in one sentence.

This talk is fantastic and filled with such goodness. I write intuitively and in snail mail correspondence as part of my business. I consider snail mail correspondence (a different writing obviously) about holding space and choosing what to share with the other person. It is another mindful way of being aware.

I'm getting teary-eyed watching this, I am really having a hard time in writing my research.....

Nicholetta, Here you go. The first fifteen minutes of an eye opening July 11. This a quiet intimate space where a cat and a son reconnect. Away from outside distractions, it's the beginning, a string of moments to enjoy. Routines reintroduce themselves, whilst the repeats play. What about today will set in motion or trigger the necessary changes to shift the same-old-same of expectations and disappointments? Much like a seesaw, I struggle with the vitality to do what I know, to be what I can, and reach a happy height of achievement. Then I hear an inaudible phrase, "Who you are is enough to be all that you are meant for today." And in this white space of writing intimate thoughts, I choose to be a gentle guide to myself and whomever shares the sacred moment of creating beauty and new beginnings. Today is the dew of opportunity, the fresh morning air of accessing thoughts and ideas; a string of fresh water pearls carefully gathered from the Sydney Harbor of my mind. Each pearl is uniquely formed, and I remind myself that my struggles are mine. But amidst the solitude of writing undistracted, I have already set in motion the creation of something beautiful, vulnerable, and innately raw. So what can I shift in this waterhole of thoughts? What will I find to day in the exercise of duty and in the reach of gratitude. My next act uncovers a heart that is simply willing. There's never going to be a day that presents itself as the perfect time to change my challenges. But the perfect opportunity is, in essence, what I create for myself today. One small shift is a start. Grateful in the blanket of peace; a cat called Abby, a vase of yellow roses, a blue and gold pen, a room that reflects taste, choice ideas, and surrounds me with beauty. I am grateful for health, strength, and solace. I am grateful for people in my life, my family. I am grateful for change and the string of moments, the cluster of decisions. The hundreds of steps I take today are going somewhere. I am not everything I need to be, but who I am is enough for today. I'm not a child who has no control. My body deserves the best, just as it were a quadriplegic with robotic legs. Healing to be happy is a process. It's a development of thoughts, ideas, and the input of loved ones who see more than you can. They simply sing the song in your heart. To new beginnings - available and ready.

Her voice made me watch this video but its content made me finish watching it. Nice pointers. And so the writing begins!

I would like to keep learning forever !

oh, that was great and very smooth and calming. great points, very beneficial. Thanks a lot.

I am so grateful for this.

I really enjoyed the lecture on writing. Nicoletta explained the whole concept with great clarity and understanding. Thank You for sharing.

It’s so tricky to try and clear one’s mind and not write ‘so what am I going to write’ for example. Loved her delivery of this talk very much

Listening, ahhhh! So true. I love it!

I wonder why does this video have just '380' likes whereas other gibberish talks have aplenty! Thank you! Pen to paper - noted!

I am an artist and when I open the SketchBook I randomly make pencil strokes until I have something to draw, maybe that's what we need to do in this exercise as well

In stating, 'the fear of being too close to ourselves' really depends on how we view ourselves. I reckon Nicoletta Demetriu, in her encouraging talk, means being too close to our critical self, or even too close to our public-face or mask. In an ideal scenario, we never need fear being too close to our true or authentic self, which is untrammelled and unfettered, free and wondrous. The 64,00 dollar question is 'how?' ! Certainly writing stream of consciousness helps, as Brenda Urland inspired in her seminal work, 'If You Want to Write'; published in the late 1930s I believe. Let's keep writing, free of self criticism; all the while reading good books ! Thank you ND.

Just excellent. Her every word is as good as a pearl.

I needed this in my life, thank you

What a wonderful speech. Thanks for sharing the thoughts about writing.

Thank you, Nicoletta. What a lovely conference, very inspiring.

Connecting with yourself.. something I do to in order to come closer to who I really am. I wasn't aware that I needed to hear those words so badly that it hurt.

I completely get her writing ritual in the morning. Completely.

Even though I've heard this before I thought it was amazing. Loved it.

This speaker literally gives me ASMR with her voice.

A calm talk amazing !

It should have more views!!

Great and inspirational! :)

That's true! beautifully explain mam..

I really love this talk. This is what I'm looking for. It inspires me a lot. I have many realizations now. I followed you in my twitter account.

Finally you able to hear your own voice 😇writing therapy makes you an angel 😇 💖

I got all you said.thank you.God bless you.

This speak helps me a lot, it showed me how to write better by starting a new daily routine. I have to write so much for assignments, about some topics but I scared of writing even though I love reading books. Thank you, Nicoletta Demetriou!

Great and applicable

Beautiful amazing soul. Thank you, bless you. All your dreams come true.

This is an excellent video, the message of which is exceptionally profound.

موضوع. رائع .. .very interesting. subject Bravo .

great new perspective on writing, especially like the notion of 'Writing Therapy', and perhaps the underlying benefit of improved memory recall and new insights - would like to know more about 'Life Writing'

quite simple and true words. thanx

This is kind of relaxing

Thank you

Great presentation. Reminds me of Natalie Goldberg's wonderful book: Writing Down the Bones.

Remember jack Nicolson in the shining ...he wrote every single day too!

Thank you this video is needed for me

Thank you all very much

I'm going to try doing this...

I will start doing the daily writing ASAP

I found this most interesting. I’d love to know how the fifteen minute writing sessions actually translated into ‘knowing’ your own voice. How was the writing analysed to inform? Thank you for your insights. I write a journal every day and I’ve learnt something new from this.

Inspiring, thank you.

Wow just wowwwww!!!!

Amazingly convincing

Thank You

Very inspirational Thank you.

Thank u all very much

Thank you for such an inspirational and informative talk. We have learned from this great speech about how the writing itself can contribute to knowing ourselves better. The writing in essence is the best way of discovering and realizing our thoughts, feelings and personality as well. As far as I am concerned I should say that the abilitiy of the expressing yourself in writing better than your colleagues or other students do gives you gives you more confidence and big opportunity to success in every part of your life.

"You don't care if you spell or not." I wish she was my English teacher.

That was deep

Wonderful voice

Thanks .

I've been journaling since 2008.

She is beautiful

Very good

Wtf where was I..lets think deeper into what shes trying to mean...best insight so far for me

I hope to hear my own voice too eventually!

Writing by hand for me was slow to capture the idea in its time. Thats why i moved to key board

I couldn't write continuously for 15 minutes, is it ok to take some time and let my mind wander somewhere so by this I can write my thoughts

Funny, I started doing this not so long ago, 15 minutes. I right the dreams when I remember them, do you?

I'm involved in 2 disciplines that wasted a lot of my parents money because I didn't really want to study at University.

nicoletta

Unintended ASMR

That one lady; just in the audience on her phone.

يجب عليهم القيام بتمارين البطن حيث يعمل الجزء العلوي من البطن. مع رفع الساقين ومحاولة لمس القدمين باليدين ومتغيراتهما التي تعمل بالجزء العلوي من البطن. سترى التحسينات بسرعة. هذا تمرين لعضلات البطن العلوية. سوف يقضي على الاكتئاب والقلق. كما أنه سيشفي عقلك. سيساعدك تمرين الجزء العلوي من البطن كثيرًا. و بسرعة.

Im starting to find the more I listen to people telling me how to write and what rules to follow I am becoming less creative and in a sense mimicking others who failed to do what I aspire to do. You cannot be taught to be a great writer it has to be within you.

hello fellow Creative Writing students

15 minutes a day will turn into hours as time goes by. ;)

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Wait, she doesn't actually write...

Lovely much? 10 years ago she must have been something and a half.

A meditative experiment of GIBBERISH writing...

THIS IS BORING! MY GAWD! I'm going to create a Patreon to fund a new lecture series called 'Topless TED'; That would have my interest!

BORING, IRRELEVANT