Meditation for Writing – Three Tips to Improve your Writing with Creative Meditation
Would you like to be able to write more, and write more easily? Meditation is a great tool to help you to develop as a writer. The ten or 15 minutes you spend meditating each day tune up your mind, improving your focus and concentration.
You can learn to meditate in classes, or from CDs and books. A daily meditation session is a gift you give yourself and your writing.
Meditation is easy to learn, and long before you become a skilled meditator, you’ll find that it helps your writing.
Once you’ve learned the basics, here are three tips to improve your writing with creative meditation.
1. Bring your challenges to meditation to discover solutions
Everyone has challenges. It’s useful to select a challenge, and make it the focus of your meditation session.
This doesn’t mean thinking about the challenge: just hold the challenge in your mind once you’ve achieved a meditative state. You’ll find that solutions will come to you, either during the meditation itself, or when you wake up the next morning.
2. The magical pause – use one-minute meditations to clear your mind
Writing requires focused concentration, and this state can be difficult to achieve if you’re tired or stressed.
Use a one-minute meditation to clear your mind. Just take several slow, deep breaths, and focus on your breathing.
This pause works like rebooting a computer. It removes your everyday stresses so that you can focus on your writing.
3. Keep a meditation journal to help you to work through your challenges
When you begin working with challenges in your meditation sessions, keep a meditation journal. Write down the date, what challenge you’re meditating on, and any insights you have.
You’ll be fascinated to find each and every challenge is resolved, when you meditate on it, often within a very short time.
Meditation is relaxing and calming. It can increase your productivity, and if you suffer from any writing blocks, meditation will remove them.
Write more – the key to your writing success
Yes, you can write more – even if you’re a world-class procrastinator.
Did you know that when you write more, your writing improves? Many of my writing students experience this. They find that when they write more, writing is easier for them – they’re not dominated by their inner editor.
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Let yourself write: day dream your fiction
Is your short story or novel STUCK?
It’s common to stall when you’re writing fiction. You’ll reach dry periods when your characters turn wooden, and the original inspiration you had for the writing vanishes.
You can often regain your inspiration by day dreaming.
One writer just writes one scene, and then gets STUCK. This one scene seems to be all there is, and no matter how much time he spends on it, he can’t “see” another scene. He thinks he’s procrastinating, but his challenge isn’t time management, it’s getting back into a right-brain mind state.
This is very common for beginning writers. Your single scene (or in some cases collection of two or three scenes) is what you can see/ imagine; it’s what your right brain/ inspiration is serving up at the moment. 
Then your left brain kicks in, and you try to THINK your way to scene two, but it doesn’t happen.
Here’s how to handle it, if you have one-scene wonders, OR if you get stuck anywhere in your fiction. With novelists, this kind of sticking happens at around chapter three. Again, it’s just a right/ left brain thing, and it’s easy to fix.
THE FIX: dream the next scene, with your eyes open. That is, pretend you’re having a dream.
Write: “I’m dreaming that____” and carry on writing, describing a dream that you imagine. Write around a page, describing this (imaginary) dream. You’re imagining that you’re imagining. 
This is excellent, because it kicks you right into your right brain – there’s no way you can be logical about this.
If your dream has nothing to do with Scene One, or wherever you’re stuck, that’s fine. Write your page. Then, no matter what the subject matter of your dream sequence is, morph it into your stuck scene. Just cram it in there – you’ll be amazed that it WILL fit.
Try it.
Write more – the key to your writing success
Yes, you can write more – even if you’re a world-class procrastinator.
Did you know that when you write more, your writing improves? Many of my writing students experience this. They find that when they write more, writing is easier for them – they’re not dominated by their inner editor.
My new writing class, “Write More And Make More Money From Your Writing: Develop A Fast, Fun Productive Writing Process” is based on lessons I developed for my private coaching students to help them to write more, improve their writing, and make more money writing.
If you’re struggling with your writing, the class will help. The techniques you’ll learn in class with help you write fiction, nonfiction, and copy for business.
Discover how you can write more, improve your writing, and sell more of your writing to higher-paying markets.
Outline Writing: the Secret to Writing Faster (and Better)
Want to learn a skill which will make all your writing a breeze? Outline writing can unlock your writing talent and confidence.
Whatever you want to write, from an advertisement to a book, discovering how to write outlines will improve the speed at which you write, and will also improve the results.
If you’ve been telling yourself that you “can’t write outlines” or “I hate outlines”, read this article to discover how professional writers outline before they write. You’ll love the process.
Writing with Confidence
How’s your confidence? If you’re not writing as much as you wish you could, chances are that CONFIDENCE has everything to do with it.
A lack of confidence shows itself in many ways: procrastination, endless revising, a fear of approaching top-tier markets, and on and on.
So how do you write with confidence? The tips “Just Write: Find the Confidence to Write More” will help.
Essentially, it’s a matter of trust, which builds as you write, instead of worrying about your writing. You trust yourself to know what you’re doing, even when a piece of writing seems absolute junk and chaos.
Blogging your writing: a way to build confidence
I’m pleased that so many writers have taken up blogging, because blogging will increase your writing confidence more than anything else. A blog forces you to write, without over-thinking the writing process. Your blog is a great place to experiment, and to get known as a writer.
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