Now
here is where everything shifts, often when writing we don’t think about the
reader’s interpretation of the writing. The reader may interpret your writing
on a personal level, you may answer a question for them, and you may remind
them of something that has been long buried until they read your words.
I
actually developed a relationship with an author who I never met, but
identified with because his writing is powerful and touched me deeply.
Identification is the spiritual connection that the reader receives, a powerful
emotion that is a gift from the author to the reader. I feel it when it
happens, when I am writing, it’s a feeling that is almost supernatural, and I
just know that the reader is going to connect with me in a way that
instinctively makes me happy.
Because
you are honoring your spirit and not your mind, this awareness will inspire
you. This is the inner purpose that you
may not understand, but you know that it is powerful.
Creating a legacy for your family, helping the reader through a hard
time, with your interpretation is extremely influential. Someone may be
nurtured from your writing to the point that it frees then from their chains.
These
inner purposes give your writing a new angle; you begin to understand that the
writing is not for you, it’s for the reader who is going to be transformed by
your words. Wow! What an honor!
I
venture to say that keeping this understanding in mind while writing helps a
writer to make it through the dry spells and through writers block.
Someone
somewhere needs your words. Whatever
genre it is, someone will be freed because of the words that YOU wrote. The
power of your words is not something to be taken lightly.
Excerpt from my book, Breaking the Chains of Writers Block with Passion, Purpose and Perserverance
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