Having a baby is post nut clarity for women. It’s when they realize they wanted a baby, just not HIS baby.
This is too dark for the masses so we just call it postpartum depression.
Most people never realize that when you sit down to write, two completely different parts of your mind show up at once, and they do very different jobs.
The first part is the conscious mind, the thinking, judging part of you that filters everything, second-guesses every word, and worries about how things sound to other people.
The second part is the subconscious, the deeper part underneath, the part that holds your real thoughts, your true feelings, and your honest instincts before they ever get cleaned up for the public.
The interesting writing, the writing that feels alive and surprising, does not come from the conscious mind on top. It comes from the subconscious underneath.
And the whole reason freewriting exists is to quiet that loud conscious mind for a while, to get it out of the room, so the subconscious can finally speak without being judged before it even gets a single word out.