automatic writing

American  

noun

1. writing performed without apparent intent or conscious control, especially to achieve spontaneity or uncensored expression.

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Etymology

Origin of automatic writing

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

Do you get into sort of a flow state or almost, like, automatic writing, where you’re not totally aware of what you’re even doing?

From Los Angeles Times

I’ve been making these minimal newsprint collages for quite a few years now, and I did it mostly for a kind of solitary escape, a form of automatic writing, but with reappropriating visual things.

From Los Angeles Times

What began five decades ago as a few folders of slides and fliers has grown into an apartment-filling archive encompassing color theory, UFOs, automatic writing and more.

From New York Times

I used a technique called active imagination, which is essentially automatic writing with a dream character.

From Los Angeles Times

I like to quote French writer André Breton, who invented automatic writing.

From Scientific American