Writing & New Age

Lesson 6: Mental Enhancement Toward Becoming A Greater Writer.

Section 6-2: 'The Inner Source' as a Daily Writer

Using the counting the breath exercises you can achieve daily writing enhancement to your writing career. Each time you visualize writing concepts suggested in part b of counting the breath exercise you further the practitioner inside you derive depth as a litterateur. Using your journal and your design-idea book note your exercise results in your journal and the ideas that you visualize in the design-idea book. Begin to plan your exercises before you engage them. Using the goal, sub-goal, delineation of development input the goals you note in your journal into your exercise regime. After brainstorming sessions, develop new concepts in your design-idea books and implement those into your exercises. They will be the concepts you view as colors entering your self image in its astral state as suggested in part b of counting the numbers.

If you aren't too tired after these exercises you may also note any additional inspirations you develop after the sessions. You will find that your design-idea book fills rapidly with expanded versions on your earlier themes. When the topics take on a life of their own, exceeding the scope of prospective writings, it is time to develop them into essays, articles, short stories, poetry, opinions, novellas, and/or the beginnings of novels.

Don't be afraid to have multiple writings in this early stage of development. Don't be afraid to brainstorm more than one thesis at a time. Don't be afraid of writing too much, too diversely, or too often. Write daily. Write when the urge strikes you, even if it is only a couple of sentences. Those two sentences can turn into a top-notch article.

Pick a time of your weekly writing regime to legitimize your daily writing achievements. Take the multiple writings, develop outlines, note them in your journal as outlined and outline them in your design-idea books. The writings that spring forward-go with. The ones that require a little more work, research, fine tuning, or more inner depth-set as in need of further introspection. Soon you will have a whirlwind of stories spanning pages of your journal as entries, in development, outlined, submitted, and sold or rejected. Soon you will have a design-idea book full of outlines, potential submissions, denotations that tell you a story developed that no longer merits the design-idea book, it has moved into a life of its own. When you have marketed and sold your stories, put a copy in your design-idea book, mark your journal "sold or published." Make it a celebration in your notations.

Writing can be a lonely profession. When you begin experiencing success as an author, you don't always have it followed up with a pat on the back. In fact, that is rarer than you may think. Your readership may be delivering you accolades, but the personalities you live with, have day-to-day interactions with may have no understanding of your successes as an author. Don't allow this to add to your stress levels. Continue re-evaluating your stress levels on at least a weekly interval initially. As you enjoy the relaxation exercises, also enjoy seeing your stress levels reduce. You can retake the stress evaluations and learn that some things may become altered, situations improve, and your view of what is a stressful factor may dissipate.

Becoming a daily writer, is the process of seeing yourself as a writer each day. If you encounter writer's block intensify your relaxation exercises. Perform additional guided imagery exercises. Go out, get to visit with groups of people, and brainstorm-or just socialize. Get your mind-body attuned to productivity. Don't dwell on the block. Get the Writer's Block publication in the suggested reading of this course, read through the book, and use their suggestions. Mostly, relax, and progress.

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