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A SLOWER RHYTHM CAN RESTORE AND INSPIRE YOU TO WRITE A BOOK

For creativity, health, and more, slow down to the pace of living when you write.

We are trained to see ourselves as less than fully alive, less than made up of life. So we push ourselves around (I know I can), we try to make ourselves accomplish things, we judge ourselves for being too much of this and too little of that. All this creates a chaotic arhythm rather than a steady, supportive rhythm in the breath. And this affects our writing.

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GETTING YOUR BOOKS OUT OF THE CLOSET AND BRINGING THEM BACK TO LIFE

Have you given up on some old book ideas? Are they living inside a closet (literally, or in your mind)? Maybe it’s time to bring them out of the closet, and remember what you saw in them in the first place. . . .

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ALIGNING YOURSELF IN WRITING YOUR BOOK

The more you can be aligned within yourself, the more natural — and enjoyable — your experience of writing a book will be.

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MEET YOUR MUSE

Your Muse is not far away, but very close at hand, close as your own breath. This allows for deep trust and intimacy when writing your book.

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SHIFTING CONSCIOUSNESS: The Secret of Writing from the Deeper Self

Entering into an inspired place to write from often is helped by something prior to the words. Making this shift in consciousness may be the most valuable thing you can do for your writing, because when the inner environment is in place, you basically have everything you need to ease into yourself and bring forth the infinite treasures that await within.

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DESIGNING YOUR WRITING LIFE AND PRACTICE

There’s lots of advice about when to write, and how many pages to write per session, and other writing-practice to-do’s. But have you realized that you are perfectly equipped to design a writing practice that actually fits you?

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WRITING IN YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE: It may not be what you think it is. . . .

Do you remember learning the language you speak? All children are born with the potential to speak any language at all — from highly structured grammatical languages to clicks that Westerners couldn’t easily duplicate — but from the great width of this potential, the sounds narrow down to emulate what the parents and other adults in the vicinity speak.

But what about the world we inhabited before learning our “native” language? What about our truly native language? How much of that has had room to persist and be known and made use of?

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RECEIVING: The Secret of Loving Writing Your Book

In writing a book, it's not just about getting words down on the page. It’s about listening to yourself, and seeing what rises up to meet your invitation -- in other words, receiving. Then, the words give themselves to you.

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MEET YOUR MUSE, CTD: A Mary Cassatt Moment

Your Muse can show up with you sit down to write a book and call it in. But it also can show up anywhere, even when taking a breather at a park where families congregate.

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CALLING FORTH THE GROWING TIP OF YOUR INNATE CREATIVE NATURE

Whether writing a book or birthing any creative form, your soul wants to be heard. The movement towards the unknown is the nature of our soul’s emerging becoming, much like a plant seedling indicating what its true nature will look like after the first, generic leaves have come. Can we trust that the falling away of what we have known opens the opportunity for something more true to arise?

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12 NATURAL WAYS TO BE INSPIRED TO WRITE YOUR BOOK

Inspiration may sound far-off, but it’s really close to home. Here are 12 natural ways you can cultivate to help you love writing a book.

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PLEASE YOURSELF IN WRITING A BOOK

Writing a book to please readers may mean you’re not  really present for yourself in the writing. But when you truly please yourself, your readers will feel what's behind your presence on the page and resonate with that same presence in them.

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THE ANGEL IN THE CARROT: We Are Always Being Wooed by Inspiration

Your job is to stoke the desire to write your book, and to be alert to what comes to you as a response. When you say “yes” to it and breathe it in, its gift will show up as your desire to start writing. Even an angel-shaped carrot can teach us this.

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10 GOOD REASONS TO WRITE A BOOK

There’s no point in writing a book because someone else told you you should. The only real reason to do it — and the only thing that will sustain you through the journey of chapter after chapter — is the knowing that you are called to do this from within. Then, writing a book becomes a gift to yourself, from yourself.

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FROM CHAOS TO CREATIVITY: When the Door You Open Leads to Something Bigger Than You Expected

Chaotic times are frequently an intrinsic opening to a new creation of some kind. Yes, chaos is the parent of a more cohesive form, opening a door into something else you may find you want.

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Are You a “Top Down” or a “Bottom Up” Kind of Writer? (Or Somewhere in Between?)

Knowing your own natural creative pathways lets you work with yourself instead of against yourself, and write as yourself.

A clarifying excerpt from my book, Starting Your Book: A Guide to Navigating the Blank Page by Attending to What’s Inside You.