automatic writing

noun

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

Origin of automatic writing

First recorded in 1880–85

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Rather than retreat, she seduced him by falling into a trance and pretending to succumb to a bout of automatic writing.
Seduce Like a Writer: How 7 Famous Scribes Wooed | Joni Rendon, Shannon McKenna Schmidt | February 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The myth is that the strangeness of On the Road comes from an off-the-cuff American style of “automatic writing.”
You Don’t Know Jack: Kerouac Biographer Joyce Johnson and ‘The Voice Is All’ | Lauren Du Graf | September 16, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
Two years before his death Adrian Borlsover developed, unknown to himself, the not uncommon power of automatic writing.
Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) | Various
One of the most common methods of exploring the subconscious mind is the method of automatic writing.
The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society | Upton Sinclair
I simply testify now to the accuracy of all those statements in her paper in regard to her automatic writing.
The Arena | Various

One of them, who knew about my automatic writing, asked me to read what had come to me.
The Unpopular Review Vol. I | Various
At first, she communicated by automatic writing; later we established direct-voice communication.
Dearest | Henry Beam Piper

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