New Segment: Freewrite (a brain dump episode about guilt and witnessing divorce)

Prologues

Mary Skinner

Society & Culture

4.8 • 850 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Introducing a new segment on Prologues: the Freewrite. We love book/writing-related puns around here. Freewriting is a writing technique that calls for stream-of-consciousness-style writing for a predetermined amount of pages or time. The goal is to kickstart your brain's creative juices by demanding that it produce words - any words, even nonsensical words, just as long as you don't stop physically writing until you hit the goal. Freewriting is effective because it helps you bypass your mental blocks and tap into deeper ideas.

Sometimes, I have several episode ideas rolling around in my head, but I can't record them because I have a block. I have something else occupying space in my head and I can't talk about anything else until I talk about That Thing. Freewrite episodes are brain dumps of anything and everything that is taking up space in my head, so that I can get it out of the way and keep moving forward.

This is the first of what I'm sure will be a frequent series on the podcast.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome. My name is Mary and I'm the host of Prologs, a lifestyle podcast where each episode is like a digital
0:21.2	journal entry detailing whatever it is I'm going through in life at the moment. I talk about my
0:26.0	journey with mental health, relationships, wellness, beauty, personal development, and more.
0:31.2	So join me every Monday morning for a reminder that we're all still figuring out life for the first
0:36.1	time and you are still in the beginning of your personal story.
0:39.9	Hello and welcome back to another episode of Prologs.
0:43.0	Today we're kicking off the start of another new segment for Prologs.
0:46.8	The segment itself is not new, but the name is.
0:49.4	It's called Free Right.
0:50.6	This is the name I've come up with for the brain dump episode. So if you've been listening
0:54.4	to prologs for a very long time in the first year of the podcast, I sometimes did episodes that I
0:58.8	just called brain dump, where I talked about whatever was on my mind at the time, whether that was
1:03.7	one topic or 10 topics, they were rambly, they were often a mix of personal reflections and also yapping about pop culture and reacting to what was going on in
1:15.3	the world at the time and also narrating my sort of stream of consciousness as it as it unfolds.
1:21.7	And those are the brain dumb episodes and you guys really, really loved them. And I liked them too.
1:27.0	They're certainly easier to prepare for than other episodes because I just get on the mic
1:30.0	and I talk.
1:30.6	Very little preparation involved.
1:32.2	But I didn't like the name Brain Dump.
1:33.9	So I was thinking, you know, this new season of prologues we've rebranded, I'm leaning
1:39.1	more into this sort of writer writing side that the title of the podcast suggests when it comes to
1:45.9	naming things. That's why the name of the Q&A segment of the podcast that used to be,
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