Writing & New Age

Lesson 7: Your Writing Space.

Section 7-2: A Writer's Nook.

What is a Writer's Nook? There are multitudes of answers to this question. For this lesson we are focussed on the semantics of writing in as far as comfort and personal fulfillment. Therefore, your placement in the act of writing is also the stronghold where you arrive at an enhanced state of performance as an author. You may ask yourself, "what is my act of writing placement stronghold?" Take a look around you. Your placement at this exact moment in the physical sense of your nature is your writing placement stronghold. Analyze your setting.



You should have a journal nearby, you should have a design | idea book handy. You should have some meditations recorded and|or guided imagery notations listed in your journal records. You should have arranged your desk and workspace to be more attuned to your Personal Feng Shui. You probably have some projects posted in your journal and in development in your design idea books. You may have a copy of Fifty Visualizations handy or Writer's Block or another manual off the resource list.

You may be looking at a mirror setting to the side of you and perhaps it reflects off another mirror giving you a sense of the eternalness of reflections. Perhaps, you have gotten a Bonsai and placed it on your desk. There may be Siamese fighting fish swimming nearby in a vase with a plant affixed on top. Some brass sculptures may adorn your desktop. You may feel more alive with a proactive energy flow to your space. You may be more organized, perhaps cleared away some clutter. You have learned to eliminate some stress indicators. You may breathe a little lighter. You are in your Writer's Nook or your writing placement stronghold.

You can now take a deep breath, feel the air enter your lungs, breath out slow, and relax, relax, relax. You have your own space to create from. You are energized. You have a wealth and abundance of mental imagery to pull to your conscious mind at any time you would like. You have a lifetime of emotions to relive and give life to through the written word. You are a writer in a writer's nook.

Now, you move to the realm of progression in writing, deciding what type of writer you want to become. Do you have a flair for newswriting? Are you a great storyteller? Do you love a mystery? Are you a comic at heart? Do you like to help people learn how to do new things? Are you filled with tales that are bizarre and may raise a hair or eyebrow?Do you work well with scripts? Are sitcoms your most favorite thing to watch and analyze? Do you churn out poems with every emotion you feel? Are you a romantic, does love captivate your being? Do you like a good erotic piece to get your pulse racing? Are you a scientific researcher? Do sports activities and scores spurt out of your mind everytime another enthusiast enters the room? Are new cars on the market, their make, model, etc. like second nature to you? Do you love to cook and write recipes down? Are you full of opinions? Do you think up fantasies to tell your grandchildren or children to fall asleep? Are you a creator of a child's make-believe creatures?

I can list a thousand similar questions for you to answer. Think about what makes you want to write. What types of things you are passionate about. Don't fear anything will be too diverse or personal. You can write about any topic and find a market niche' I guarantee it. If you want to keep anonymity you can use a pseudonym. Use what you have imbedded in your own mind and build from there.

You will learn with time that you may begin writing thrillers, you may have success, sell them as short stories, or articles, maybe a novel or two then you may get a yearning to write something a little different. You may find your Inner Source to be diverse-allow it the freedom to accommodate as many genres as it seems prepared for. Embrace your mind by giving it free reign and liberal ability to deliver quality writing for you.

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I have included throughout this section (7-2) photographs of famous authors' writing nooks. When you look over them try to derive where their style of writing comes from in reference to their personal writing space. If you feel anything presented in the photographs expresses their style share your thoughts through the discussion board or e-mail. In locating photographs of writers at their desks I found it difficult to locate female authors at their desks-their disclusion wasn't intentional.

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