#PublishingReinvented 32 - Fear & Loathing in January + The TM Writing Solution
January is always challenging - but especially in 2021.
Everything is changing. The process is not easy. All around we see dangers, new rules, new faces.
January balances precipitately. Fear, loathing, hope, and possibilities.
I’ve been using meditation to still my turbulent mind. The practice can also inform writing. Being in the moment is useful as the world spins. We can focus on the job at hand.
Here’s one thing marathon runners have discovered: If you expect to hit a wall, you are more likely to do so. The mind impacts the body. This has been proven again and again.
If we see ourselves writing more without hitting a psychological wall, we are more likely to achieve our writing goals.
For me, writing is a form of guided meditation. It pushes away other thoughts and focuses my mind on the story. The pleasure of creating is real and a joy in the darkest of cells, wherever we find ourselves, it is a door to endless possibilities.
The Placebo effect works as we write.
If we believe we can write better, more engagingly, more descriptively, more honestly, we will do so.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
Here are my suggestions for a TM Writing practice:
Say you are as good as you wish to be. State it internally like a mantra.
Examine the type of writing you would like to achieve for clues.
Create your own version inside your story by letting the words flow.
2021 is a year of change.
Be ready for the turmoil with a writing practice that gets you where you want to be.
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