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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