June 20, 2010

Conscious Creative Writing

Posted in Article tagged Conscious, create, creative, emotional intelligence, expression, imagination, meditative, muse, New Thought, writing at 6:22 pm by revuewalz

This is a first in  series of articles about what conscious creative writing is and how it works.

I think it pretty well understood what creative writing is so I’ll discuss the conscious part of it.  How is it that ideas come to us?  Much has been said about ways to work up your way to thinking and how to overcome blocks. But what is thinking?  I believe it is a marriage of mental and emotional intelligence.  By using the mental we use understood processes to carry an idea forward.  By using the emotional we loose a little understood part of us to sieve our experience and let surface whatever carries the strongest charge for us.

There are two ideas here that I like to air; linearity and process.  Linearity in writing is the way that actually putting thoughts down helps us to shut out all but one idea at a time.  There may be several cueing up, but we choose which to put on the page.  This can be a great exercise of meditative-like clarity.  Any activity that gives practice in choosing is good for increasing confidence, but practice it must be.

Process is the way we let ideas unfold over time.  By writing regularly, we get to see from day-to-day how the subject with the most charge shifts or gets bumped by something else.  If you are writing about seeking guidance on a career, for example, it might be difficult to decide in one moment or even one day, but your true muse can emerge through the process of putting it down day by day.  Once you know what you want to do, this method can give daily ideas about how to refine the path to your goal.

Therefore, emotional intelligence gives the intuition and mental intelligence guides the process.

In conscious creative writing we are writing toward a goal, one of mining our own consciousness.  If you come to this activity with a question in mind then the aim is to answer it.  If you come to it with a desire to be fulfilled then the aim is to unleash forces in the realm of unseen activity.  This may sound pretty vague and esoteric, but anyone who has engaged in this process can attest to the very real results.  An analogy might be made with the internet.  You may be sitting in your living room using social software such as Facebook or Twitter and evolving relationships with people on the other side of the planet, people you can see on the screen.  Or you can be playing video games with people in  same manner.  To people alive when the New Thought movement began, this would seem hard to even imagine.  Remember, you have not walked over to see this person.  The most physical thing you have done is probably just sitting and using the computer.  This is a very good marriage of mental and emotional intelligence with a real world effect; the development of relationships.

I believe we are on the cusp of living in contact with other unseen forces that are just as real.  Most of us would be pressed to imagine the activity that brings us to internet.  It might as well be an unseen force, although we’re sure it’s quite scientific.  The same forces and atoms that order our lives can bring new ideas into form.  They always have.  People are always creating new uses for them. Whatever forces, realms, objects, or experiences may be available will emerge when we have the foresight to ask for them.

If we have a failure of imagination, it can be due to a lack of continuity of approach.  It is easy to give up after a few attempts when trying a new skill.  People have differing fields of expression.  For those of us with utility in writing, this might just be a good way to work  out of a trapped life.  You might not need rocket science, just a new direction.

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