How to Write Every Day
for Visionary Writers
Because I have about 20 ideas for writing before breakfast - and I’m still carrying unwritten ideas from yesterday, last week, and the past several years - and I can’t write them all at once: I open up a sacred writing space, call in my visionary writing guides, and tune in to what wants to be written through me now - in this moment.
I have to listen, and I have to respond. Because the energy moving through me is different every day. I cannot necessarily write today what I thought about writing yesterday. The energy, the context, the fabric of the web of life is always alive and changing - I write to ride that edge of wonder, where the new earth is alive in the process of being birthed. I write to let the creative joy of Life flow through me, as it is right here and now.
If I’m writing a book, I might choose a topic from my table of contents to explore, or a theme from one of my chapters to flesh out. I might feel stimulated to respond to some recent research, or itching to engage with something I’ve just read.
Writing is a creative outpouring of energy that is best poured from an overflowing cup. The more I read, research, listen to audiobooks or podcasts on my topics of interest, the more I am ready to write when the ideas start to spark.
Writing is catching the cresting wave of creative life-force energy that is constantly seeking new ways to express itself in this world.
All is welcome, and all is valid. What matters is that I write.
Then I can discern when, how, and whether to share that piece. Some writing is private for our own journals. Some is of the moment and might be shared on social media. Some might be for a book or a bigger project, and may not be ready until several edits later.
It’s a good practice to allow yourself to write in all three of these modes as often as possible. Writing privately for self exploration, publishing fast and frequently for the development and sharing of ideas. And working towards a longer - more considered - project such as a book, to give a deeper concept more space and time to mature and grow.
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I need a routine, but I also find that too rigid a structure stifles me. Having had Pluto moving through my sixth house for almost 20 years now, I’m due a routine that sticks sometime soon! In the meantime, I find that setting myself a loose intention of writing every day is more productive than trying to write a set number of words at the same prescribed time each day. Also, I don’t really expect myself to write every day. I flow with my cycle and know that I am writing enough.
But I am finding myself yearning to write and share more and more. And that’s been tripping me up recently too. I want to post more, but I hold myself back thinking - I don’t want to bombard people, what if I’m posting too much, what if I’m sharing too much, what if what I’m saying is wrong or people don’t like it/me. Posting publicly always brings up these questions for many writers. I have made the decision not to send every post I write out by email - I feel like that’s too much, so I’m only emailing once a week. But I’m open to that changing if it feels better to offer more.
I considered keeping some posts private, for paid subscribers only - and I may do that - but all the time I’m putting restrictions on my own creativity, including other thought-stoppers like I’ll keep this post for later when it will be more relevant, or I can’t write this yet because it’s out of context with what I wrote last week, or I must / mustn’t write this because it will be good / bad for my business / it won’t make sense to my readers then I’m finding myself holding back the flow of life that wants to move through me.
When I delay, question, second-guess, hold back, suppress, stifle, or over-think the creative life-force that’s moving through me, I quench the flow of my own creativity. Such delays can set me back for days or weeks when suddenly I’ll lose my inspiration or motivation to write, while several unfinished articles are clogging up my drafts.
If I try to go back and write an idea that was fresh last week, I may find it empty and dead. Then I’ll carry its carcass around with me as something to remember to revive - all the while it’s dragging me down with its putrid weight and suffocating me of fresh, creative life.
That’s why it’s best to write while the idea is fresh, and keep moving. Participating in the living moment by riding the energy of creativity is always its own reward, as more ideas are born from the creative process. Life begets life. Writing opens the portal for more words, ideas, connections, collaborations and inspirations to come.
The more I write, the more I want to write, and the more I am inspired to write.
How about you?
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