How to Use Your Intuition to Be A Better Writer

How to Use Your Intuition to Be a

Better Writer

C 2005

Julie Jordan Scott



Albert Einstein said, "The only real valuable thing

is intuition."



For centuries inventors, entrepreneurs, engineers,

parents, children and yes, artists, have all

experienced intuitive flashes. These inklings

sometimes lead to something big which

reaches into positive growth situation beyond

our usual way of thinking or being.



An inkling may lead to a new invention or an

improvement upon an already existing product.

Ralph Waldo Emerson described it this way:

"Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking

the hint of a new machine from his own structure,

adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron,

wood, and leather, to some required function in

the work of the world."



Remember a breakthrough moment in your life.



An "A-ha" or an "Epiphany" moment.



Arthur Koestler, Hungarian born writer, wrote

"The moment of truth, the sudden emergence

of a new insight, is an act of intuition". Akin to

a "sixth sense", intuition brings pieces together.

It gives the gift of heightened awareness.



It also helps to listen to your body. In Malcolm

Gladwell's breakthrough book, "Blink", a study of

the ability to make rapid decisions based on

the adaptive unconscious , wrote about listening

to your body when you have an intuitive inkling.

When something doesn't "feel right" and you

get a strange feeling in the pit of your stomach

or the palms of your hands get sweaty - follow

that inkling.



So what does this have to do with writing?



Your intuition is one of your most important

partners in the process of taking your writing

to your next level. Listening to its voice will

make a substantial, heart shifting, world changing

difference to both you and those people who

are blessed enough to come in contact with

your words.



On the other hand, if you ignore the inklings

you hear - nothing will happen.



I knows this first hand. I put my writing

on the back burner for years. My idea for my

website was present in my mind for a long

time before I took action - and little did

I know my writing would be central to

every aspect of both my website and

her business.



The path wasn't clear at all. It was murky and

filled with "Not knowing" and "doubt" and "denial"

and "I'll do what I THINK I want to do" which was

caused by her unwillingness to listen.



The messages to focus on writing were being

divinely sent as early as college when my

classmate in "Politics of Africa" said, "I enjoyed

your paper so much, I read it through

completely - twice."



She read a ten page single spaced term paper

on the Ivory Coast twice? Once "just for fun?"



This particular message was memorable

just because it was so outrageous. That was

a densely written term paper.



It was also written with heart, with soul and

with a strong love for the words and

the message.



More than ten years after that, I was working

(and very unhappy about it) for the County of Kern.

My free-spirited, artistic soul was busy being

a Bureaucrat because it "seemed" the

right thing to do. I thought I was

following a divine course - yet I seemed

to stop getting messages the more miserable

I became.



A co-worker said to me, "You pack more good

information in a really short memo than anyone

else I know.. And they are so artfully

expressed, too."



I started writing on her lunch hour. It was at

a crowded meeting held at the library that the

messages began to really make

themselves heard.



Your intuition will assist you to guide your

characters, to nudge you in a certain direction

with your creative non-fiction.



Your intuition will hand you exactly the right

word at exactly the right time.



Your intuition has been your partner in all

the free flow writing we have created in

this program. It is the energy which passes

along those first words, those next words.



It opens up and fuels the flow.



Let's join our intuition intentionally today:



Consider this: Where is the place I am

meant to go with my words and my writing?



Use free flow writing to respond....



The place I am meant to go with my words

and my writing is............



Allow your words to float across the page.



The place I am meant to go with my words

and my writing is:



When the flow slows down and comes

to an end, remember to remain open to

the messages from your

intuition today and for the next several days.

Listen to your body, listen

to people who say things to you that

seem especially surprising. They

have been sent to you,

messengers of your destiny.



Listen - and write - and listen some more.



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Julie Jordan Scott faciliates the growth of Creative

Souls through Writing, Coaching, and Working in

the Theatre Arts. Dare to lead a remarkable,

passionate life now through one of her

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