face the antagonists and write | plot whisperer | spiritual guide for writers | writing through the fear
Too Airy-Fairy???
The fear you greet at every major threshold of your life is simply based on a fantasy of a danger that has not happened. Rather than stay frozen on the future, get out of your head.
Feel your body.
Seize this moment and write something, anything.
Keep moving.
Write through the fear.
Today, detach from the outcome and concentrate on putting one world after another on the page.
Forget the duality of good versus bad.
Marvel at the miracle of words appearing out of nowhere and you writing them on the page.
Replace fear with blind trust that you will be supported and that all is well.
Make the act of writing or whatever you do an act of love…
Hi Plot whisperer. I have just written a rousing first chapter of my suspence YA novel but I'm not sure where to go from there. I'm great at thinking up an opening hook, but the rest slips through my fingers like dry sand. Today I've been researching conflict in an attempt to decide which direction to take now :O)
Ahhh, that hits the spot. Thanks yet again, Martha!
Madeleine, hope you'll view plot whisperer vlog (just recently learned that's what the youtube plot series really is: a vlog. http://www.youtube.com/user/marthaalderson#p/u/1/61QFdblwzNs
lots of steps to get you from "rousing 1st chapter" to The End, or so is my fervent wish…
Hi Anne, Yay! so glad the post helped. Thanks for your feedback.
Hello!
I just wanted to let you know that I'm really enjoying the Plotting Series on your YouTube channel, and it's helping me a lot with a stalled novel I've been working on for a long, LONG time!
Thank you. 🙂
Martha ~ I love your Freudian slip on this post:
Today, detach from the outcome and concentrate on putting one WORLD after another on the page.
It's a beautiful thought. 🙂 ~ Sara
Thanks for your comments, Liselm. Like knowing you're finding the videos helpful and that you're following along. Thank you!
Thanks for catching the slip, Sara!