In the Discovery Writing method, speed is very important.
Usually when you learn something new, you start slowly. Discovery Writing is different,
because speed is required to make it work. With all of our education focused on training the analytical part of our mind, it’s likely that this part
thinks it can figure out the answer to everything. So part of the challenge to
accessing your creativity reliably is to make the analytical part of your
mind be quiet temporarily. Writing as fast as you can does this.
When you use the Discovery Writing method the first time on a “real”
problem, there is a very strong tendency to “think” about it. “Thinking”
here means trying to devise a solution using the analytical part of your mind.
