It seems like "streamwriting" is pretty much synonymous with a tried-and-true (and sometimes controversial) method known to writing teachers and students as "freewriting." Writing teacher / guru Peter Elbow is generally credited for popularizing the technique (though, as the post you recently linked clarifies, it's been around for an age or three), especially through his influential 1970s Writing Without Teachers, which is chock full of ideas... .) There are plenty of extensions for freewriting, too. I like to use a version of what Elbow has called "loop writing" that I've adapted as "peripheral writing" over the years. I try to make time to put students through its paces at least once a semester, and there are always at least a few who have some kind of epiphany. Here are two definitions I give to students: Freewriting (FW) A form of quick, un-careful, non-stop writing which is meant to get you thinking or writing without having to worry about the kinds of things writers worry about in more public forms of writing (sentence structure, spelling, making sense, vocabulary, sounding intelligent). To freewrite, just jot down whatever comes into your head (even if it's "I can't believe we're supposed to freewrite again") and keep going (even just to write "I can't think of anything to say" or "blah blah blah" over and over). Freewriting works best when it is understood as personal and private: if you know you won't be sharing it with others, you'll probably have an easier time not worrying and just getting thoughts down. Peripheral writing An extended form of freewriting, similar to dreaming, which is particularly helpful for generating new ideas, moving past "blocked" ways of understanding issues, texts, feelings. In peripheral writing, write a topic or starting point at the top of a page and do a focused FW on it for a period of seven minutes. After seven minutes of continuous writing, stop--even if you're in the middle of a thought--and take a quick look over what you have written, underlining or circling a particular word, phrase, sentence or idea that strikes you as interesting, or as something you have more to say about. (Usually something will jump out at you pretty quickly.) Put that word/phrase at the top of another focused FW and repeat. Peripheral writing often 'lets in' ideas or understandings--sometimes even memories--you might not otherwise get down on paper: it releases thoughts in your "peripheral" mind and vision and allows you to 'look straight at them.' It is most effective when done for six or more rounds-well past the point where you've exhausted the thoughts you have 'on top.'