Writing Practice

"Write hard and clear about what hurts." 

 

- Earnest Hemmingway

 

Regular writing practice is a form of self therapy to explore your inner world, thoughts and feelings through words. A good way to explore the spontaneity of words is to try free, intuitive writing. Free intuitive writing comes from a deeper, more hidden place in your psyche. It often can surprisingly explain the deeper reasons for why you are feeling pain or confusion or joy.

 

To begin, relax, close your eyes, empty your mind and place your attention inside your body. Now simply wait. As your thoughts come into your head and write them down without worrying about whether they make sense. Do not censor, nothing is irrelevant. Write fast so you do not have time to think about what you are writing. It is best to time your writing and just go for 30 minutes a day. If you commit to writing every day for 30 days, write me about your journey with a snippet of your free, intutitive writing and I will send you the e-course Deepening Your Creativity with the 10 Minute Collage for free for your efforts.

 

Buddhist and writer Natalie Goldberg explains a daily intuitive writing practice to inspire the growth of your authentic voice:

 

1.) Lose Control. Say what you want to say. Do not worry if it is polit, correct, appropriate. Just let it rip.

 

2.) Be specific. Don't muddy your language with generalities.

 

3.) Don't think. Write down your first thoughts. Go with what first flashes in your mind.

 

4.) Don't worry about punctuation, spelling and grammar.

 

6. Be free to write the worst junk.

 

7.) Go for the jugular. Write about what is scary, that is where the energy is, otherwise you spend all of your time writing around what makes you nervous.