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Posts Tagged ‘Writing’
Monday, 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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Thursday, 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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Tuesday, 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!
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Tags: creative flow, flow, writer, Writing
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Tuesday, 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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Monday, 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. Read the rest of this entry ›
Tags: confidence, confident, conscious creativity, creative, creative cycle, creative process, creative soul, creative spirit, Creativity, ideas, resistance, Writing
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Thursday, 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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Thursday, March 28th, 2013
Julia McCutchen interviews Suze Casey 
Suze Casey explains that she “writes because she cannot not write”. Yet, moving from writer to widely published author took more courage than she knew she could muster. She had to face all the vulnerabilities, doubts and fears she had developed from the responses and feedback she had ever received. She had to come to know and value herself in a stronger and more committed way.
In this interview, you will discover:
- how to enter into – and out of – your creative space with ease
- an effective and efficient way to move through writer’s block or any other form of doubt or fear
- how to effectively acknowledge what has been in the way and give yourself permission to speak openly from the heart
- a simple decision-making process that will open the doors to new ways of writing
- how to recognize your authentic voice and have it become your way of being – in all areas of your life.
The developer of the Belief Re-patterning® technique, Suze Casey has always been fascinated with the mysteries of the human mind. She spent twenty years as an educator, and since 1999 has completely followed her passion – supporting others to learn, grow and embrace their potential. She is the author of Belief Re-patterning: The Amazing Technique for “Flipping the Switch” to Positive Thoughts (Hay House) and travels extensively offering workshops, seminars and conference keynotes as well as maintaining a vital international coaching practice. See www.suzecasey.com and www.beliefrepatterning.com
Date: Thursday 4th April 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: authentic, author, conscious, creative, creative spirit, inspiration, publisher, Publishing, suze casey, writer, Writing
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Monday, March 11th, 2013
 I am delighted to introduce this guest post on mindful writing by Satya Robyn from “Writing Our Way Home”. Enjoy.
“Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about the bamboo. And in doing so, you must leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Otherwise you impose yourself on the object and you do not learn.” ~ Basho
As writers, one of our most important tasks is to accurately record the truth – whether this be the literal truth, if we are writing factually, or the complex psychological truth which can be revealed through the medium of fiction. I think mindful writing can help us to do this, and in this article I’ll tell you how you can use mindfulness to become more truthful in your own writing.
There are many different definitions of mindfulness. For me, the essence of mindfulness is paying a particular kind of attention to the world – attention which is as unfiltered by our own selves as we can manage.
Everything we see and everything we experience is coloured by our sense of our self. Three people walking into the same garden will see three completely different gardens. The first, a proud experienced gardener, might notice the rare plants. The second, a child, might see the mud and want to squelch about in it. The third, a perfectionist, might notice the untidy corners and the clematis which needs pruning. Read the rest of this entry ›
Tags: mindful, mindfulness, practice, write, writer, Writing, writing process
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Friday, March 1st, 2013
Application deadline – Friday 15 March
As we celebrate our 3rd anniversary here at the IACCW, it is time to make a new level of contribution, so we have created a brand new Conscious Writing Scholarship.
The six month Conscious Writing Scholarship is an extension of the Conscious Writing Mentor Program and offers one successful applicant a whole six months of coaching, consultancy and mentoring completely FREE!
The Conscious Writing Scholarship is designed for writers who are:
- open to new possibilities and appreciate the value of a holistic approach to writing and authorship
- willing to take their content, their writing, and themselves as writers to a deeper level than ever before
- interested in exploring the core of their creative soul to discover their authentic voice – on the page and in the world
To read more about the Conscious Writing Scholarship
click here
Tags: authentic, authorship, conscious writer, conscious writing, creative, writer, Writing
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Thursday, February 28th, 2013
“Writers must travel into wilderness
and bring back what they find,
envelop it in words,
and release it into the world.
For our work to approach art, we must learn
how to let the mythic flow through us and onto the page.”
Stephen Harrod Buhner
Conscious Writers find the courage
to explore the unknown territories of inner and outer wilderness,
and discover the “invisibles” which inspire all forms of powerful writing.
To your conscious & creative success!
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PPS Our next IACCW FREE & FULL Member event is on
Ensouling Language: The Art of Non-fiction for Conscious Writers
with Stephen Harrod Buhner on THURSDAY 7 MARCH
Read more here.
Tags: Conscious Writers, in the world, on the page, words, writer, Writing
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