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In the reflection workshop, the practitioners write furiously for the allotted 20 minutes. Afterwards, many say they were surprised by what they have written. They note how their writing went off on tangents to the extent that some of them did not write about what they had intended to or hadn’t yet come to the specific point. They all seemed to enjoy this creative form of writing, even though some of them say it first seemed alien and difficult to start. Revealing the storied self. Putting together the pieces of self, of life itself. It is a creative and restorative act. Tufnell and Crickmay (2004, p. 41) note how:

Creating is a way of listening and of trying to speak more personally from within the various worlds we inhabit. It is a way of discovering our own stories, refreshing and reawakening our language and giving form to the way we feel.

I advocate people write about the experience soon after it happens. My own edict is to write within 24 hours of the experience. Although I have no hard evidence to support this, practitioners say this is useful advice. Of course, I don’t always achieve this edict. Sometimes a week or even a month goes past, and I haven’t written about the experience for whatever reason. I can still recall it clearly and yet I wonder if my recall has become more distorted through time. It might suit some people to write at a later time when the immediacy of the experience has settled. Writing too soon after a situation may not be enough time for the emotional mud to settle and for things to become clearer. Sylvia Plath (1975, p. 147) writes in one letter to her mother:

The thing about writing is not to talk, but to do it; no matter how bad or even mediocre it is, the process and production is the thing, not the sitting and theorizing about how one should write ideally, or how one could write if one really wanted to or had the time.

Plath’s words are a reminder about not getting caught up in technique.