Transform deadlines into opportunities for creative triumph with a thinking aloud partner

Reframing writing deadlines with a thinking aloud partner

A ‘thinking aloud partner’ (or perhaps, a ‘thinking allowed partner’) inspired by Nancy Kline’s Time to Think and the work of Peter Elbow in Vernacular Eloquence, involves liberating assumptions and verbalising ideas.

Why am I not writing?

Monday morning: a client began our session with ‘I know you’re not my therapist, but…’.

That’s right. I am NOT a therapist and nor do I try to be. But sometimes we need to explore the reasons that the writing isn’t happening (maybe now is not the time to write). Or why the words are flowing but just not getting out the door (often the hardest part).