The writing wealth in your subconscious mind: use it!

Think of your subconscious mind as your inner librarian.

 

Colin Wilson, in his book Access to Inner Worlds, says: "The (inner) library contains detailed recordings of everything that has ever happened to us, and these can be recombined in any order… We catch a glimpse of this inventiveness in dreams… but these are obviously some kind of a random selection. Our inner librarian does his best work when we ASK FOR his cooperation."

 

This is a useful insight. Try it out --- ask your inner librarian to help you with a specific writing task, and he/ she/ it will happily do so. You'll find that there's a time lag when you do this. It's best to leave at least a few hours between your request, and the writing. Barbara Cartland famously used to ask for the plot of her next book as soon as she finished one, and A COMPLETE plot was ready for her the next day. :-)

 

* Note: for the purposes of this technique, we'll assume that your subconscious and unconscious minds are the same. I have quibbles with this, because I don't think that they are. However, it doesn’t affect the way the technique works, so don't let it concern you. :-)