Introduction to Noodling for Writers

A. E. Engle
3 min readMar 4, 2022

A New Thing I do to Increase Output and Quality

I’m not sure where I got the idea. What I’m sharing may be a Hodge-Podge of ideas. It could be it’s based on one idea I read about where the author has a conversation with himself.

My version of ‘noodling” is another matter. It is a matter of clearing the sludge that collects over the day and dumping it all out onto paper. This is a method I started using a long time ago. I called it “stream of consciousness” then. That is incorrect. So now I’m calling it…

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