How to Cultivate a Daily Devotional Writing Practice
...for Visionary Writers
Writing begins in stolen moments of pen to paper.
Catching the fleeting dream as I wake.
Writing begins with scrawling and scribbling.
Moving my hand across the page.
Writing is a practice. Writing needs no outcome, product, book, post, or purpose. Writing is what Visionary Writers do. It’s how we live. How we move energy through our bodies into the world. How we explore and wonder and dream and process and make connections and come into coherence with ourselves.
It’s how we express the deeper truth that speaks to us, and the powerful new frequencies we are embodying.
Don’t expect to sit down at the keyboard one day and suddenly start writing a book. That can happen. But it’s rare. And a visionary writing practice is a commitment, a way of being.
Writing starts when I open my heart and my mind to listen to what my soul is saying.
But what if you are a visionary writer who actually wants to write a book?
I encourage you to cultivate a daily devotional writing practice. A visionary writing habit. To come to the page daily. Returning to your craft as often as you can put pen to paper, or words onto the screen. Write messily. Write to express and explore. Write to listen to your deep inner wisdom. Write because you have to – because that is who you are.
Write without pressure, without agenda or attachment to any particular outcome.
Just write. Or move your pen across the page and feel the sensations of life moving through you, from spirit into form. From inspiration into reality.
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Writing is a step-down process. A transistor. When we write, we receive a signal from the universe and we translate that into words on the page, giving that frequency a shape to exist in the physical world. Perhaps visionary writers hear the whispers that others do not yet hear, or are not yet attuned to. We call those whispers in, align with them, transform them into language.
The more we come back to the page, open our hearts to the practice of listening, commit our energy to the devotional act of writing, the more ready we will be when we actually want to write a book.
How did Jack Kerouac write entire novels in continuous prose on a typewriter roll? He practiced. He sketched in words what he saw and experienced every day so that when he sat down to write, he was ready.
Visionary writing can be an art, a craft, and a practice. A space in which to move through the shadows and the light.
I invite and encourage you to pick up your pen frequently, and let it show you what it wants to say.
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