Happy spring!
Today is the first full day of spring here in the Pacific Northwest and I am psyched.
I love spring. I love everything spring traditionally stands for: spring training, spring cleaning, spring blossoms, and the resurgence of life in general after a long slumber.
Because I am passionate about the seasons and the way they influence us as creative human beings, I built the creative cycle into the structure of The Writer’s Workout.
The intention of the book is to help you identify that same energetic thrum in the flower that encourages it to reach for the sun and blossom every year. That’s the creative pulse that exists in each of us just as surely as it exists in the flower.
If you want to be satisfied with your writing career, you have to follow the directive that bursts forth from within. Otherwise, you’ll end up somewhere you never wanted to be.
Sometimes where we would like to be is so simple that we overlook signals. Have you ever noticed that the daffodil, for example, doesn’t need to attend a meeting or get on Facebook to unfurl its yellow trumpet?
That’s because the potential for the flower already exists in the daffodil bulb and it’s just waiting for the ideal circumstances to come to fruition.
The Writer’s Workout helps writers create the circumstances in your life to allow what’s within to express itself.
So, can your writing career unfurl just as naturally as a daffodil bursts into a bright yellow flower? I don’t see why not.
Spring is one of the best parts of the creative cycle. And that’s why I started The Writer’s Workout with spring.
It’s the part when what we’ve hoped for and dreamed of starts to show itself. In this phase of creativity we can appreciate the bright burst of yellow that symbolizes our true self shining through.
Not everyone is a social learner. Social learning does not always take you deeper, towards more personal meaning and satisfaction.
And peer groups, though well-intentioned, can actually interfere with members’ growth and development. I see this happen all the time with writers. They spend all their energy enmeshed in the community and can’t figure out why they are not reaching any of their own personal goals.
Or why they are reaching goals that do not end up making them feel personally satisfied.
If this describes you, spring is your chance to start over, clean house, and pay closer attention to your inner trumpet.
I want writers to actualize their innate potential. I want writers to learn year after year, cycle after cycle, how to summon the magic of their creative flowering.
The students in my most advanced training group continually impress me because they are masters of creative abundance. Flowering and flowering and flowering all over the place. Imagine a field of daffodils and you are seeing symbolically what their careers are like.
It’s glorious to be a part of their process. And I enjoy working patiently with others to help them first produce one daffodil, and then produce another, and another, and another.
Because for me, that’s what we’re here for. To flower, to flourish, to trumpet something wonderful into the world where there was formerly just a patch of dirt.
That’s your job today. Get busy and flower. You have to start somewhere. May as well start with one effort and take it from there.
New around here? I am the author of three books from Writer’s Digest: The Writer’s Workout, Get Known Before the Book Deal, and Writer Mama. I also published Author Mama and The Build Your Author Platform Workbook in digital formats. Please subscribe to my ezine, The Prosperous Writer, and this blog so we can stay in touch.