{"id":10875,"date":"2014-08-13T03:00:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=10875"},"modified":"2014-08-14T13:29:58","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T20:29:58","slug":"writers-find-your-inner-guidance-system-by-beth-barany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/13\/writers-find-your-inner-guidance-system-by-beth-barany\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers, Find Your Inner Guidance System by Beth Barany"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11050\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Alexandra-Bellink_Only-in-my-dreams_CC-2.0-license.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11050\" class=\"wp-image-11050\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Alexandra-Bellink_Only-in-my-dreams_CC-2.0-license.jpg\" alt=\"Alexandra Bellink_Only in my dreams_CC 2.0 license\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Alexandra-Bellink_Only-in-my-dreams_CC-2.0-license.jpg 640w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Alexandra-Bellink_Only-in-my-dreams_CC-2.0-license-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Only in my dreams by Alexandra Bellink (From Flickr, CC 2.0 license)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When\u00a0you&#8217;ve lost your way, what do you do? When your inner guidance system seems offline, how do you reboot?<\/p>\n<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been spinning my wheels professionally and need lots of outside guidance. I talk out my challenges, problems, and stumbling blocks, and get reflected back at me how confused I sound. <em>D&#8217;uh.<\/em> I know that!<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s helpful for someone I know, trust, and respect to tell me that I lack clarity because I yearn for clarity and vision.<\/p>\n<p>When I&#8217;m stuck in my writing, oh, like I am right now, I have to take a breath and consider what is exactly going on. I start with being upfront with my problem to myself, which also contains a description of the present state.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My problem:<\/strong> I need to be editing my romance novella right now, but I&#8217;m not. (Well, right now, I&#8217;m writing a blog post.)<\/p>\n<h2>We need structure to be able to hear ourself, hear our inner guidance system.<\/h2>\n<p>One of the best structures I have recently been using comes from my friend and mentor, Leslie Nipps, an NLP and Family Constellations practitioner. I&#8217;ve been studying with her for the last 5 months, and really like the Heart of Business she has us do at the start and end of every workshop.<\/p>\n<p>She gives a great description and also instructions for the exercise <a title=\"What is Your Relationship with the Heart of Your Work?\" href=\"http:\/\/leslienipps.com\/2014\/08\/07\/what-is-your-relationship-with-the-heart-of-your-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have found the exercise described there very useful on a business level.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to use it now for my editing.<\/p>\n<p>Before I do, I want to share with you a tool I use that helps me <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>not<\/strong><\/span> freak out about what I&#8217;m <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not<\/span><\/strong> doing. <em>Does that happen to you?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/When-youve-lost-your-way-what-do-you.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11055\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/When-youve-lost-your-way-what-do-you-682x1024.png\" alt=\"When you've lost your way, what do you? by Beth Barany\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/When-youve-lost-your-way-what-do-you-682x1024.png 682w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/When-youve-lost-your-way-what-do-you-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/When-youve-lost-your-way-what-do-you.png 735w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Part 1: What is<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s called <strong>Acknowledge What Is<\/strong>. In our NLP training at <a title=\"NLP Marin... a Transformative Learning Community\" href=\"http:\/\/nlpmarin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NLP Marin<\/a>, we call it &#8220;appreciate the present state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>How do you do that?<\/h3>\n<p>I know, it&#8217;s hard to feel all zen and appreciate what is when inside you&#8217;re screaming and shouting and so upset it&#8217;s hard to even hear yourself.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how I feel.<\/p>\n<p>So then I say, &#8220;<strong>Okay<\/strong>.&#8221; Kind of like in poker when you say, &#8220;I see your hand and I raise you&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s similar also to being in your sixth chakra* and<strong> just noticing what you notice. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(*From the Sanskrit meaning &#8220;wheel,&#8221; <em>chakras<\/em> are energy centers in the body. The sixth chakra corresponds to the center of the head and is the seat of clear seeing or clairvoyance.)<\/p>\n<p>Or, it&#8217;s like being able to calm the screaming child within, with the\u00a0strong presence of a safe adult who knows that children have tantrums. (I watched my 1-year-old nephew throw one today. He&#8217;s already putting himself in corner and crying his little heart out.)<\/p>\n<p>Appreciating the present state or acknowledging what is, is just like that.<\/p>\n<p>So\u00a0I breathe and notice that I&#8217;m stuck in my story, and more that than, I feel the burden of all this work&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>I ask myself, &#8220;What <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">work<\/span> specifically?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Reading pages. (That&#8217;s easy. I like to read.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Evaluating whether or not the prose works, i.e., <strong>creates an emotional impact in the way I want it to<\/strong>. (This part is SO hard for me to evaluate.)<\/p>\n<p>But I know I need to step into this <strong>emotional impact<\/strong> before I can hand off the book to my waiting beta readers.<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/appreciate-what-is-present-state.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11057\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/appreciate-what-is-present-state.jpg\" alt=\"appreciate-what-is-present-state\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/appreciate-what-is-present-state.jpg 600w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/appreciate-what-is-present-state-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/appreciate-what-is-present-state-160x160.jpg 160w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/appreciate-what-is-present-state-520x520.jpg 520w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/appreciate-what-is-present-state-720x720.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2>Part 2: What would you like?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Next step: Step into my Desired State.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I know my next step is to decide the emotional arc in the problem scene and make sure the scenes before and after make sense.<\/p>\n<p>I ask myself, &#8220;<strong>How do\u00a0I want my readers to feel and how do I want to feel<\/strong> in these scenes?&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Part 3: Change &amp; Resolution<\/h2>\n<p>I review Leslie&#8217;s exercise. I want to visit the relationship between me and the story.<\/p>\n<p>I notice I feel unsure and not quite up to the task. When I visit the story, I sense a desire to deepen into the emotion of this story, to feel it more. An image of the roses I use a lot in the story comes to mind. I want to heighten all the sensory details associated with the roses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/3-steps-to-find-your-inner-guidance.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11062\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/3-steps-to-find-your-inner-guidance-682x1024.png\" alt=\"3 steps to find your inner guidance\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/3-steps-to-find-your-inner-guidance-682x1024.png 682w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/3-steps-to-find-your-inner-guidance-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/3-steps-to-find-your-inner-guidance.png 735w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I step back into me, Beth, the\u00a0fiction writer. I feel calmer. I&#8217;m curious about deepening into the story. I love roses, and I&#8217;m ready to focus on\u00a0enriching the smell, texture, and visuals of my roses in my current work-in-progress that I call the Green Man story.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10694\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethbarany.com\/5daycourse.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/bethbarany.com\/5daycourse.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10694\" class=\"wp-image-10694\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Beth-Barany-fiction-author-magical-tales-of-romance-and-adventure-602x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Beth-Barany-fiction-author-magical-tales-of-romance-and-adventure\" width=\"150\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Beth-Barany-fiction-author-magical-tales-of-romance-and-adventure-602x1024.jpg 602w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Beth-Barany-fiction-author-magical-tales-of-romance-and-adventure-176x300.jpg 176w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Beth-Barany-fiction-author-magical-tales-of-romance-and-adventure.jpg 738w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Novelist &amp; Author&#8217;s Coach, Beth Barany<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/strong><br \/>\nBeth Barany is an author&#8217;s coach and award-winning novelist. She&#8217;s on a quest to bring play and adventure to the writing process for herself and other writers. <a title=\"5-DAY WRITING MOTIVATION MINI-COURSE by Beth Barany\" href=\"http:\/\/bethbarany.com\/5daycourse.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up here for her free course on writer&#8217;s motivation.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When\u00a0you&#8217;ve lost your way, what do you do? When your inner guidance system seems offline, how do you reboot? Lately, I&#8217;ve been spinning my wheels professionally and need lots of outside guidance. 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