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June 11th, 2013
 Hi Aspiring & Published Authors!
The glorious sunshine we’ve been enjoying here in the UK over the last couple of weeks seems to have fanned the flames of many creative fires.
I’m always inspired by the vision and enthusiasm of the people I work with individually to communicate their insights, ideas and stories in words for the benefit of all. At the moment, there are quantum leaps in Conscious Writing progress being made across the board which resonates beautifully with the fullness of summer we are experiencing right now.
My own book (called Conscious Writing) is heading in what feels like the right direction too. Of course it is taking much longer than I originally thought it might which is a scenario you may well recognize from your own experience!
Yet I am committed to giving it the time it needs and continuing to show up to write six days a week, whilst keeping an eye on the overall time frame and maintaining the balance between focus and flow.
Shifting into book writing mode has triggered today’s article which is Part 1 of a few lessons I have (re)learned from writing this book so far. I hope you enjoy reading it and benefit from the experience it offers. Part 2 will follow when I am further into the process.
In the meantime, if you’d like to (re)ignite the flames of your creative writing fire, I will be leading a one day Conscious Writing workshop experience this coming Saturday 15 June.
It is being hosted by the Isbourne Holistic Centre in Cheltenham which is such a beautiful part of the world. After this, there will only be one more opportunity to attend a live Conscious Writing event towards the end of the year. So if you’d like a boost for writing your book this summer, join us next Saturday. Read more here.
Finally, we have a FULL Member guest article today by one of our IACCW Charter Members Jackee Holder on How to Create Your Own Writing Manifesto. Enjoy reading it and have a fabulous month.
To your conscious & creative success!
PS This “Welcome” note is reproduced from the latest issue of the monthly IACCW Journal. If you’re not receiving our newsletter regularly, register with your name and email address in the Start Here box at the top of this page.
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June 10th, 2013
 I’ve recently started writing my second book. Yet in many ways it feels so different to my experience of the previous one that it seems as if I am writing a book for the first time. In fact I am intentionally approaching this book with a beginner’s mind, and it is working. Slowly but surely, progress is being made that I feel positive about.
At one level, I know the core of the content, message and purpose of the new book well. It has been developed over the last few years from my own experience, and was initially applied to my work coaching and mentoring writers individually. Then I created a coherent flow and began leading workshop experiences which I am continuing to offer today.
When the decision arose to write a book on the topic, I started with the workshop content and mapped out a structure of chapters based on that. It was a helpful way to start but I soon realized that what I needed to do was put that completely to one side, and start writing the book from scratch – a process I am still underway with.
While its all fresh in my mind, I thought it might be helpful to share some of the lessons I’ve (re)learned from applying what I teach others on a daily basis to my own book writing experience.
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Tags: author, book, Conscious Downloading, creative, mindset, silence, solitude, space, trust, writer, Writing
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May 30th, 2013
Julia McCutchen interviews Lucy Whittington 
One component of all the activities involved in marketing your work authentically and successfully which shifts you out of effort and into flow, is knowing what the essence of all that you are about as a writer is.
Lucy Whittington has a passion for supporting people to find what she calls their ‘Thing’, and then share it with the world in a way that is easy to do.
- Explain easily to people what you are ‘about’ as an author in a way that creates intrigue (and gets you remembered)
- Be super-confident that no-one writes what you write in the way that you write it so you love sharing your core passions as you know they are different and needed
- Tell stories to market you and your Thing to readers, agents, and publishers
- Work out your ‘media Thing’ so your marketing feels simple and easy – online and in the ‘real’ world
- Stand out when you attend a book signing, literary festival, networking group, conference or bookshop event, and when you hang out online
- Have people instantly ‘get you’ as a writer so they pay real attention to all that you are sharing as an author in the world.
Lucy Whittington spent many years being ‘good’ at marketing and worked for a range of businesses from start-ups to international Plcs alongside getting overqualified with an MBA, and running her own website and marketing business. From all this experience, she realised that her ‘Thing’ was seeing other people’s ‘Thing’, and supporting them to transform their success by sharing it with the world. See www.beingabusinesscelebrity.com
Date: Thursday 6th June Time: 16:00 BST / 11:00 EST
Want to listen to this teleseminar interview for free but not yet an IACCW member?
Find out about how to do so and discover the other benefits of becoming a FREE or FULL member of the International Association of Conscious & Creative Writers (IACCW) by clicking here
Tags: creative, creative process, creative spirit, Lucy Whittington, publisher, writer, Writing
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May 28th, 2013
“The rule for writing practice is ‘keep your hand moving,’
not stopping actually is a way to physically break through your
mental resistances and cut through the concept that
writing is just about ideas and thinking.
There is no separation between the mind and body;
therefore, you can break through the mind barriers to writing
through the physical act of writing, just as you can believe
with your mind that your hand won’t stop at the wood,
so you can break a board in karate.”
Natalie Goldberg
Conscious Writers know that the deepest creative flow
arises when mind and body are in complete alignment.
To your conscious & creative success!
PS Please take a moment to add your comments below here.
Tags: creative flow, flow, writer, Writing
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May 28th, 2013
Intro Price Available Until
* FRIDAY 31 MAY *
Six audio CDs in a presentation box
Enjoy this year’s selection of exclusive interviews with successful authors and international experts who all share their knowledge and experience to enable you to succeed as a conscious and creative writer.
Includes interviews with:
- Ebook publisher serving more than 45,000 independent authors, and writer Mark Coker who speaks on The Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success: Part 1 Primer
- Professional storyteller, accredited coach, and bestselling author Lisa Bloom who speaks on The Power of Storytelling to Find Your Voice and Inspire Your Creativity
- Poet, writer, teacher, and Buddhist practitioner Gail Sher who speaks on Four Noble Truths for Conscious & Creative Writers
- Founder of the Artella online community and print magazine, and author Marney K. Makridakis who speaks on Creating Time to Write
- Marketing expert, coach, and author Dana Lynn Smith who speaks on How to Develop a Book Marketing Plan
- Ebook publisher serving more than 45,000 independent authors, and writer Mark Coker who speaks on The Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success: Part 2 Best Practices of the Most Successful Ebook Authors
To read more, click here.
Tags: author, book, creative, ebook, expert, marketing, true voice, writer, writer's voice, Writing
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May 14th, 2013
 Hi Aspiring & Published Authors!
May is one of my favourite months of the year. The brown winter landscape gradually transforms into a rich tapestry of multiple shades of green, as if the natural world is being painted with the colour of new life as it emerges from sleeping buds.
Encouraged by this natural surge of creative energy, this week I’m raising the bar to the next level with the book I am writing.
Having danced with a few creative daemons and demons in the last couple of weeks, I’m now heading more deeply into the conscious uncertainty that is the hallmark of this stage of the Conscious Writing process.
Staying balanced between focus and flow, showing up regularly, and remaining open to all possibilities, I’ll be interested to see where this journey into the Mystery eventually leads!
Inspiring Interviews
Alongside all of this, one of the aspects of my work that I love is speaking with the genuinely inspiring authors and international experts who contribute their time freely for our monthly Events.
Each year we create a compilation of the six best interviews of the year in an audio CD set which forms part of the Welcome Pack that FULL Members receive. Now it is time to make the Best of 2012 Interviews available for everyone to benefit from.
We are delighted to offer an introductory price until Friday 31 May so if you’d like to know The Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success, The Power of Storytelling to Find Your Voice, the Four Noble Truths for Writers, how you can Create Time to Write, and Develop a Book Marketing Plan, read more here.
Date for Your Diary
Looking ahead, if you missed the Live in London Conscious Writing workshop last month and would like to experience this deep approach to writing in the company of other Conscious Writers, you have another opportunity on Saturday 15 June at the Isbourne Holistic Centre in Cheltenham. For more details and to book your place, click here
Finally, we have a fabulous guest article from one of our IACCW Experts Eric Maisel this month on Confident Creating. Enjoy reading it here and taking action on Eric’s suggestions. I’ll look forward to catching up with you again next month.
To you conscious & creative success!
PS This “Welcome” note is reproduced from the latest issue of the monthly IACCW Journal. If you’re not receiving our newsletter regularly, register with your name and email address in the Start Here box at the top of this page.
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May 13th, 2013
 I am delighted to introduce this guest article from IACCW Expert Eric Maisel. Enjoy!
If you want to live a creative life and make your mark in some competitive art field like writing, film-making, the visual arts, or music, and if at the same time you want to live an emotionally healthy life full of love and satisfaction, you need an intimate understanding of certain key ideas and how they relate to the creative process.
One key idea is that you must act confidently whether or not you feel confident. You need to manifest confidence in every stage of the creative process if you want to get your creative work accomplished. Here’s what confidence looks like throughout the creative process.
Stage 1. Wishing
‘Wishing’ is a pre-contemplation stage where you haven’t really decided that you intend to create. You dabble at making art, you don’t find your efforts very satisfying, and you don’t feel that you go deep all that often. The confidence that you need to manifest during this stage of the process is the confidence that you are equal to the rigors of creating. If you don’t confidently accept the reality of process and the reality of difficulty you may never really get started. › Continue Reading
Tags: confidence, confident, conscious creativity, creative, creative cycle, creative process, creative soul, creative spirit, Creativity, ideas, resistance, Writing
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May 2nd, 2013
Julia McCutchen interviews Rosanne Bane 
Most writers wonder at times what the heck is going on inside their heads when they want to write, but can’t. Why do we make progress with our writing for while, then – for no reason we can discern – sabotage our own best efforts?
When we understand what’s happening inside our brain, we can learn to overcome resistance in the moment and rewire our brain in the long term to develop productive, sustainable writing habits.
In this session you will:
- Learn about your brain in easy-to-understand, layperson’s terms
- Understand why a limbic system takeover trumps your writing commitment and creativity
- Discover what you can do to reverse those limbic system takeovers and put your creative cortex back in the driver’s seat
- Recognize why habits are far more valuable and reliable than discipline or will power
- Identify the three habits that support the writing life
- Decide which habits you’re ready to adopt and design your commitment plan to build those habits
- Gain appreciation for your own efforts so far, and be reassured that you can be the writer you want to be and the world needs you to be.
Rosanne Bane, M.A. is a creativity coach, teaching artist, speaker and author of Around the Writer’s Block: Using Brain Science to Solve Writer’s Resistance and Dancing in the Dragon’s Den: Rekindling the Creative Fire in Your Shadow. A veteran teaching artist of more than 20 years, Rosanne specializes in helping creative people understand why it’s so hard (at times) to do the very thing they love to do. She has helped thousands of writers, artists and creative people of all sorts achieve their professional goals and make their creative dreams reality. See www.RosanneBane.com and www.BaneOfYourResistance.com
Date: Thursday 9th May Time: 16:00 BST / 11:00 EST
Want to listen to this teleseminar interview for free but not yet an IACCW member?
Find out about how to do so and discover the other benefits of becoming a FREE or FULL member of the International Association of Conscious & Creative Writers (IACCW) by clicking here
Tags: conscious, conscious creativity, creative, creative process, creative spirit, inspiration, Rosanne Bane, writer, writer's block, Writing
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April 23rd, 2013
“How do we discover what we really have to say,
that which arises from our true nature?
The key is to … live in the light of inquiry,
not seeking immediate answers and
simply allowing the process to unfold.
The ability to embrace mystery, to stand bravely
in front of the unknown, and to encourage
the process of discovery is a key requirement …”
David Ulrich
Conscious Writers look within and feel the resonance of truth,
then follow their inner impulse in whatever direction it takes.
To your conscious & creative success!
PS Please take a moment to add your comments below here
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April 9th, 2013
 Hi Aspiring & Published Authors!
The prolonged cold weather may have delayed the start of spring but the seeds for our creative work can be planted and nurtured by the warmth of our inspiration at any moment we choose.
The seeds for my new book have already germinated, and I am very much looking forward to sharing the principles and guiding participants through the process of Conscious Writing at the one day workshop on Sunday 21 April. Read more here.
A couple of weeks ago I spent an enjoyable half day in a recording studio and created a Conscious Writing audio program which was a new experience for me. Adding some original music to the spoken word content was great fun, and we’ll be making this audio available on 21 April ahead of its general release when the book is finally published.
Conscious Writing Scholarship
In the meantime, I am delighted to announce the results of the Conscious Writing Scholarship, and many congratulations go to Shelley Hawkins (1st place), Priya Mahtani (2nd place) and Jeanine Hanneman (3rd place).
We had a large number of applications and the quality of submissions was very high so thank you to everyone who took part. It has been such a positive experience that we plan to offer the Scholarship again next year so you might like to make a note in your diary to have your submission ready!
Two New Full Member Benefits
Supporting Conscious Writers is an important part of our work here at the IACCW and this month we have added two new Full Member Benefits for extra support:
(i) Guest Articles – Full Members now have the opportunity to have a guest article published in the IACCW Journal and posted to the IACCW blog. Our first Full Member to take advantage of this new Benefit is Lynda Monk and you can read her article here.
(ii) Published Works - we are also in the process of creating a new page for the IACCW website on which we will feature published works from Full Members and coaching clients.
These can be books, e-books, audio CDs or any other work that has been self or traditionally published as long as it is for sale on Amazon. If you would like to submit your published work, email us on info@iaccw.com and we’ll send you more information.
Finally, I discovered when I was writing this month’s article on silence that Wednesday 24 April is International Noise Awareness Day.
I am delighted to discover that the benefits of silence are becoming so widely documented that they have led to days like this for promoting awareness. Enjoy reading the article and benefitting from incorporating more silence into your conscious & creative living.
Have a wonderfully conscious & creative month!
This “Welcome” note is reproduced from the latest issue of the monthly IACCW Journal. If you’re not receiving our newsletter regularly, register with your name and email address in the Start Here box at the top of this page.
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