--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FWIW, it's not uncommon for writers to have the experience > of what they write coming *through* them from "somewhere" > else, almost as if they were taking dictation. > > I'm not a writer, but I've had that experience a couple > of times; several of my writer clients have had it. > > With one of my clients, every once in a while as I'm > editing his work, I'll come upon a really rough patch > and find myself effortlessly rewriting it, even adding > stuff that should have been there but isn't. > > He's always thrilled when I do that. I kid him by > telling him that for some reason his muse wasn't able > to get through to him when he was writing the part I > fixed, so she contacted me instead when I was editing > it and gave me what she couldn't get him to receive. > > I'm not entirely sure there isn't something to that.
What you're describing in writers is commmon, but it's also open to interpretation. Another way of seeing the same phenomenon is just "getting out of your own way." When you do, the creativity flows. Where the person who experiences this flow chooses to believe it flows *FROM* is another question, one that is all wrapped up in personal beliefs and/or religion. The sense of flow is the same, but different writers *interpret* it differently. Some interpret it as "coming from" somewhere "else" or someone "else." Others inter- pret the *same* phenomenon as being merely their own voice and their own thoughts, just not filtered through a bunch of "self crapola." I've experienced this phenomenon many times, and not once was I ever tempted to interpret it as coming from anywhere "else" or anyone "else." It's just that the internal "bullshit filter" got out of the way for a while, and the writing or speaking was clearer and less distorted as a result, that's all. Just another way of seeing things... ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
