Strategies to Discover Your
Freedom in the Free Flow of Writing
C 2005 Julie Jordan Scott
I literally feel pain when I hear people report
their resistance to daily writing practice.
I know - it sounds extreme - and it is also true.
I feel pain because I know how much better off I
have been since I have started a writing practice - which
for me is based on Julia Cameron's suggestion of writing
3 pages of free flow, stream of consciousness writing
every day as early in the morning as I can muster.
For you, free flow writing may be 3 minutes a day.
It doesn't matter how much you do - if you do so
daily, it will make a difference in your life - pure
and simple.
I have learned that people generally stop their
writing practice because instead of using this time
to spiral up their energy with their words, they use
it to spiral down their energy with their words.
I know I wouldn't write for very long if I
felt worse after writing than I did
than before I started writing.
This is one of the reasons I came up with these
simple strategies you may follow in order to
always have a writing practice which aims
towards your increase - making life better - rather
than taking you into a tank of despair.
None of us do despair well. If you intentionally aim
upwards with your writing, when times of despair
DO set in, you notice it more quickly and may shift
from it with relative ease. In other words, you manage
your doldrums, they don't run you.
Does this make sense so far? If it does, great - keep
reading. If it sounds like some form of strange, unknown
language, please take a deep breath and re-read it.
It really is easy.
Simply breathe and continue.
1. Write from Your Gratitude List. or from
someone else's if you are stuck.
Check out the I'm So Grateful Blog for inspiration.
http://www.imsograteful.com
2. Write from Affirmations: Look at the books of Catherine
Ponder or Louise Hay for examples. Even simple ones
like "Everyday in everyway things keep getting better
and better and better"
3. Write using inspirational quotes as your prompt. There
are lots of websites whose single function is to provide
quotes to the world. Here are a few to get you started:
http://www.toinspire.com/ ; http://www.motivateus.com/ ;
http://www.inspirational-quotes.info/
4. Describe in detail the objects around you according to
the different senses: how does that object look, feel,
smell, taste, sound?
5. Write a letter to your friend, telling him (or her) the
many things you enjoy or like about her. If you find
your thoughts slowing, choose a different friend.
Bonus: send the letter to your friend, hand-written
with an envelope and stamp.. wow!
6. If you recognize you are going down a negative path,
insert this simple phrase" "This is what I have been
making up - the truth is.."
Writing freely will open you up like you have never been
opened before. You will discover yourself in ways you
have only dreamed.
Does it sometimes hurt? Heck yeah.
Will you feel better after you write, taking the
Chitter chatter out of your head and onto the page?
Heck, yeah...
Is it worth it? Heck, yeah!
Today - just try it and tomorrow and the next day, try it again.
Julie Jordan Scott faciliates the growth of Creative
Souls through Writing, Coaching, and Working in
the Theatre Arts. Dare to lead a remarkable,
passionate life now through one of her
writing teleclasses or ecourses. Visit her website now:
http://www.5passions.com/writingprograms.html
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