By Leo Kane
DO YOU SUFFER THE AGONY
OF WRITERS BLOCK?...COME CLOSER AND I WILL
SHARE MY SECRET…Any writer who belongs to a Facebook author group cannot have
failed to see how many poor souls cry into the heartless void of the internet:
I have lost my muse. I
can't write today. I haven’t written for a week and I feel so guilty.
If this happens to you
do not despair because it never happens to me. Am I arrogant or super human?
No, well at least I don’t think so. I am an author of spooky, supernatural,
psychological stuff and a clinical hypnotherapist. I would love to say that
publishing a book gave me the secret key to dispel writer’s block but it is
hypnotherapy that, as you cannot look into my eyes, qualifies me to whisper the
following words of wisdom in your ear.
The stories we tell
ourselves about our personal qualities, our value in the world and our
abilities, every second of every day, become real in our child-like
subconscious mind.
Your subconscious cannot
differentiate between reality and imagination, waking and dream states, truth
and lies because it is innocent.
The subconscious is the
spring of inspiration, imagination and creation and the great news is - we all
have one! The End. Only kidding but if the rest of this page
had been blank you would have believed me, after all, why would I lie to you or
to myself?
Let’s think about lying
and the mysterious writer’s block for a moment. Everyone puts conditions on
success and happiness; for example, we tell ourselves that if we were richer,
slimmer, in a relationship, out of one, had kids, kids went over seas and left
us, older etc. then we would be successful and happy. These are the types of
lies we tell ourselves to avoid living in the moment and they harm us terribly.
As writers, we go
one-step further and inform our trusting, naive subconscious that if only our
capricious Muse had not deserted us, we could write. Shame on us, this is
another big fat fib. A Muse is a mythological goddess; ergo no one can possess
one and what we can't possess we surely cannot lose. Unless, hang on, what if
we are our own Muse? That might work!
All you need to write is
to work with your own secret muse so: look in a mirror and
try not to feel silly
then speak aloud and tell your subconscious, ‘Thank you for worrying about me
but it is OK; we are going to write today and whenever we need to write we will
help each other.’ Invite your subconscious to tell you a story and promise to
write it down.
Write it down. Continue
writing. Fall into your creation.
When you re-enter the
conscious world first admire your new masterpiece then pack your old imaginary
muse’s fantastical suitcase and kick it out the door. Next, please thank your
subconscious muse. Finally do a celebratory jig and let me know how utterly
fabulous you are so we can rejoice together.
You can message me for
help, advice or general writer’s madness and a laugh at:
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Born and raised in the
Steel City of Sheffield, England; Leo Kane has spent a lot of her life day
dreaming and can’t seem to outgrow the habit. Despite this she managed to raise
a family of three wonderful girls, a tolerant husband and, recently, a crazy
husky, somehow acquiring a career and a Master of Science degree along the way.
Leo is a qualified clinical hypnotherapist with a fascination for the human
condition. When she isn’t sending people into a trance, or bringing her
daydreams to life on the page, Leo spends her time happily staring out of
windows and using her husband as a guinea pig for experimental cookery, which
he places in the horror genre. Heavensgate: Book 1 'Hope' is her book. Leo can be found at web
page http://hgleokane.wix.com/heavensgate
or on face book https://www.facebook.com/Leokaneheavensgate
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