stream-of-consciousness
Mind's unedited flow
Stream-of-consciousness is a narrative technique that presents thoughts as they flow through the mind—unfiltered, associative, often without conventional grammar or logical sequence.
The term comes from psychology but is most associated with modernist literature: Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner.
The novel's stream-of-consciousness passages can be disorienting at first.
More loosely, any rambling, unstructured monologue: Sorry, that was a bit stream-of-consciousness.
Irish personal name
- WoolfCanine surname variant
- FaulknerAmerican modernist author
- interior monologueCharacter's private thoughts narrated
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
Ulysses · Mrs Dalloway · narrative technique · prose style · unpunctuated · Proust · avant-garde · experimental fiction
Unspoken personal narration
- thought processHow one reaches conclusions
- cognitionMental knowledge acquisition
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
- introspectionObserving one's own mind
subconscious · free association · Freud · psychoanalysis · rumination · daydreaming · internal dialogue · self-talk
Continuous unedited composition
- brainstormingGenerating many ideas freely
- journalingRegular personal writing practice
- automatic writingText produced unconsciously
- uneditedNot yet corrected
spontaneous · raw · drafting · ideation · creative flow · morning pages · improvisation · uninhibited
Joyce
Irish personal name
- WoolfCanine surname variant
- FaulknerAmerican modernist author
- interior monologueCharacter's private thoughts narrated
modernism · Ulysses · Mrs Dalloway · narrative technique · prose style · unpunctuated · Proust · avant-garde · experimental fiction · unreliable narrator
inner monologue
Unspoken personal narration
- thought processHow one reaches conclusions
- cognitionMental knowledge acquisition
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
introspection · subconscious · free association · Freud · psychoanalysis · rumination · daydreaming · internal dialogue · self-talk · metacognition
freewriting
Continuous unedited composition
- brainstormingGenerating many ideas freely
- journalingRegular personal writing practice
- automatic writingText produced unconsciously
unedited · spontaneous · raw · drafting · ideation · creative flow · morning pages · improvisation · uninhibited · expressive
- writing stylesformal, informal, minimalism, maximalism, concise
stream-of-consciousnesslinear narrative
Story following chronological order
dramatic structure · traditional storytelling · traditional narrative · realist fiction · journalistic style
stream-of-consciousnessprepared remarks
Speech composed beforehand
scripted · rehearsed · calculated · methodical · premeditated
stream, streams, streamed, streaming, streamer, streamers, streamline, streamlined, consciousness