What About Left Handed Writing?

Left handed writing is NOT like a left handed compliment.  Nor do you necessarily write with your left hand.  You write with your non-dominant hand which typically is your left hand.

Why?  Do you know the work of Lucia Cappachione?  Her first book was The Creative Journal (1979).  She began the movement towards resolving emotional issues through writing with the left hand.  She found (not surprisingly based on left-right brain research which took momentum after her first book) that the person did NOT censor what went onto paper.  The fact that the writing was difficult to carry out and slow going may or may not have had to do with accessing the emotions.  With time, people found the process easier and the emotional material continued to surface and resulted in healing.

As well, Lucia Cappachione noticed that not only did the left hand access emotions but it also accessed creativity.  What a wonderful resource for writing ideas!  You would not know what you were thinking with the left hand before the left hand did the writing.  All kinds of ideas emerge when the focus of the writing time is on your writing project regardless of whether you have any ideas about it at all.  You can simply write "novel" (if that's what you want to write or are writing) and see what happens next.   For further information about this process see The Creative Journal.

This process is basically freewriting using the nondominant hand.  There is no end to the richness of freewriting.