Sometime our effort to avoid hurting another's feelings can cause greater damage to the one we're trying not to hurt.
The longer I deal with being a member of the community of authors, the more I realize that we need to hold each other to the fire; especially when we have the water nearby. True some things are best learnt by experience. After all, we are a living experience having multiple experiences. But, when it comes to the art of fantasy storytelling there need to be elders, masters, and leaders who can demonstrate the way to masterpieces. The biggest issue, and foundation of the problem, is learning to slow down so you can receive, plan, and organize your story before you start to put it in manuscript form. We authors are healers, way-showers, shamans, and teachers. What we do cannot be produced in an instance nor will the results appear within the hour. If you think that you can, or that they will then you'll become more disillusioned than the very people you're working toward helping. This is not a glamour game. With all that said, I need to check myself because there are only so many teachers who can teach for the sake of the art. As in all things classic and novel, there is a misunderstanding that what the professionals do can be duplicated with ease and with little to no training. Writing is no different. So, let me share 3 things that I've learned over my twenty years apprenticeship. 1) You need boundaries and a mission statement. Without knowing what you stand for, you will be all over the place. There will be no proper beginning which makes it hard for resolution since you don't even know what it is that is trying to be accomplished. As for the middle, what middle? There will be none since you don't know where you're going or where you're coming from. 2) You need to sit on the curb and let Spirit do what Spirit does. We are channelers. Face it, accept it, live it. If you are good at what you do as a myth maker, you will be pulling from the collective unconscious constantly. Think I'm wrong? We humans use only 10% of our mental capacity therefore there is no way we can function on this reality and pull stories based in other realities with little to no transition in awareness without help from an invisible Source. This means that there must be time to connect, to receive, to process, to manifest, and to package what we get. Patience is a virtue, especially for authors of novels. 3) You need an elder, colleagues, and Beta readers to just discover who you are. In other healing fields you have the an elder or elders to prepare you for the challenge you're about to partake in, we authors have had to scrape together information (until more recently) this is a waste of the little time that we have for writing and learning by trial and error. This has got to change but only we authors can change it. Colleagues are for more than cheerleading and co-authoring. We are students together and can see and misunderstand things together. Together we can tackle and if need be change tricks of the trade. Fellow students are watching and hopefully helping you expecting you to see what they see even if you don't do what they do. Beta readers can make better resources than editors when you are still striving to become published. Need I say more about your fellow canaries in the mine? If we handle these three, we will be able to produce stronger medicine with tasty sugar that is invisible to the eye, especially our eye. Thanks for Listening Sabrina Louise Andielle
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