The best and constant advice creative writing lecturers give is ‘Free writing is the way to go’. I have come to find out that free writing is the best way to warm up your mind for the great ideas you have in store that are tangled between the webs in your mind. You know that feeling when you have an idea but you can’t put it onto paper? Of course you do! Well free writing breaks you free from that curse. Keeping a note book on your bedside table and always having one on the move gives you the chance to spill all the words you have in store whether they make sense or not! You’ll often find yourself writing gibberish and making up thoughts that you are apparently thinking. But amongst your pretentious ‘thoughts’ you’ll find your new character or scene or even title. 

As an emerging writer and a recent university graduate I have been following this exact advice, and believe you me, I have found many of my dialogues and scenes amid the confusion of my notebook.

Happy writing!