Angela Booth's Writing Blog: Today's Writing Tip: Writing is a team effort between your conscious and subconscious minds

Books: Write Fiction

Angela Booth: Short Fiction Secrets: How To Write And Sell Short Stories (Selling Writer Strategies Book 2)
Writing short stories is a fun and easy way to get started writing fiction — you can get paid to write, in your spare time. If you're new to writing fiction, you can learn the elements of writing fiction — short stories are much easier to control than longer fiction.
Angela Booth: Master Fiction Writing: Craft A Novel in 31 Days: Selling Writer Strategies 4
This program began as a 30-day challenge which I organized in 2010. Hundreds of writers joined the challenge; they wrote novels. You can write a novel in 31 days too.
Angela Booth: Step By Step To Fiction Which Sells: Plotting And Scene Magic
What if you could leave boring fiction forever behind you, so that the story in your head becomes the story on the page? You CAN, when you discover the magic of story, plotting, and scenes.

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. :-)