Yeasting A Writing Idea
One of the key components to the class I’m developing on getting your book written is the spiritual component. I’ve known from the beginning I wanted to introduce and use some spiritual ideas, but I’ve been having real trouble expressing it exactly. So for maybe three weeks I’ve been drafting and deleting, reading and pondering. I’ve known it would get clear, I just didn’t know when.
Today I broke through. The result is this statement:
I suggest you come to getting your book written as a spiritual journey, a sacred exploration.
What do I mean by spiritual and sacred? My personal definitions are eclectic and come from my own personal experience. I use terms like High Power, God, the Divine, Higher Self, Goddess, Spirit. Each is a highly inadequate attempt to describe what Carl Jung called the numinous, the other – that sense of something bigger or beyond or more than ourselves. Part of the 11th Step of Alcoholics Anonymous and other 12 Step groups asks us to improve our conscious contact with God, as we understand God. I’ve come to understand that it is my job to be aware of that which is, in some indefinable way, aware of me… a power that I can, when I choose, touch or tap into in a way that enlarges me and my relationship with the world.
Whew! Now the written material I need for the class is just flowing! I love it.
The point, of course, is sometimes it takes time for an idea to gel, to yeast, to develop. The wait can be frustrating. It can even, at times, feel like resistance or avoidance. The truth is we do have to wait sometimes; we have to trust the process.
How do you handle those times when you don’t quite know what you want to say or write? Tell us about it.
Write well and often,
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