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Excerpted from 'Surrealist Games' by Alastair Brotchie

Automatic writing is the most direct of Surrealist techniques.

Sit at a table with pen and paper; put yourself in a 'receptive' frame of mind, and start writing.

Continue writing without thinking of what is appearing beneath your pen.

Write as fast as you can.

If, for some reason, the flow stops, leave a space and immediately begin again by writing down the first letter of the next sentence.

Choose this letter at random before you begin, for instance, a 't', and always begin this new sentence with a 't'.