Classification … PROSPERITY > #WRITING, #HOWTO, #NONFICTION, #FICTION … (QUICK METHOD)
Overview … [reprinted with permission from the former CopyDragon webwriters site]
Some people think they have nothing to say. Some people believe they cannot express themselves. Perhaps, sometimes, you are such a person. But don’t believe it.
Because these are illusions.
These illusions, these thoughts, are caused by the unconscious mind’s automatic learning. It learns something, usually in childhood, and quite often these “solutions” are brilliant, given the resources you have at the time. Unfortunately, like how to tie your shoes, these solutions are re-generated automatically below consciousness ever after, and sometimes they fit, but oft-times not so much!
These beliefs, emotions, thoughts, and automatic reactions are a part of you, operating below consciousness, but they are illusions. (In which we are sometimes as trapped, and blind, as are fish to the water.)
Let’s talk about how to make writing, and self-expression … easy.
I learned this from a woman named Brande, in a book she wrote in 1934, about creative writing. It’s still true. Here’s what you do …
— In the morning, when you arise, go immediately to a typewriter or a computer where you can type things, and start typing.
— Type any garbage that comes into your head.
— Describe your dream if you wish. Type out the ideas flitting through your head. If you are thinking “I cannot express myself,” then type that.
— Keep typing.
— It will be a lot of hooey … but you’ll notice some good ideas in there, now and then.
— Keep typing for 20-30 minutes, every morning.
Do this for a couple of weeks, and your beliefs and considerations that you have nothing to say or that you cannot express yourself … will have vanished.
Weird. But it actually is just that simple.
And—if you really want to write—isn’t it worth some typing for two weeks?
It works for the same reason that you can dream. In your dream you automatically create scenes, words, ideas, pictures, and on and on and on. This is an inherent skill of a human being.
And when you first awake, your “censors” are not fully functional. That’s why you must go *IMMEDIATELY* to the keyboard. And start.
By starting while still sleepy, and while your usual blocking claptrap isn’t fully booted up, you can of course effortlessly spew your trains of thought. They are huge freight trains, and they’re running at high speed, all the time.
Perhaps you’ve got out of the habit of allowing your trains to run down the track toward the horizon. Your unconscious mind is programmable; that’s how it got programmed to block you, and it can be programmed differently, with this exercise.
This simple practice throws the switches on this particular railroad, and your freight trains start building speed, moving on down the line.
Hear the clacking of the rails?
Hear the whistle soaring into the air?
It’s easy. Prove it for yourself.
You’re the engineer.
Whoooo-wooooo!
You might be interested in Dorothea Brande’s 1934 Guide to Enabling the Genius and Character of a Writer. It’s widely available in the usual places:
Becoming a Writer — by Dorothea Brande
Or you might be interested to learn more about the Unconscious Mind—like what it actually is, how it’s built, how you created it (by accident), how to get it aligned with what you want in life, and how to talk with your unconscious mind.
Because your unconscious mind is the powerhouse that creates wonderful and magical things in your mind, your writing, and your life.
Just search on this substack for “unconscious mind,” and as we go forward, more and more useful information will turn up. Things you can use to make your life better.
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