Here's a professional writing secret. If your job is writing, you let your unconscious mind do it. Each morning, you sit down, and whether you feel like it or not, you start writing. In the morning, you're close to your unconscious, and it's got a lot to say. :-)
Does it always work like this? No, but if you relax, and don't believe that you need to know exactly what you're doing when you're writing, it works most of the time. :-)
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. :-)
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