Posts Tagged ‘writer’
Principles of Graphology
If you’re like me, you’re always on the lookout for people who can tell you more about yourself – people who can read you without having to know you for too long, or be predisposed to your mannerisms and idiosyncrasies. We all need help understanding who we truly are, as I believe that certain aspects of our character are only objectively viewed by someone from the outside. Or maybe we just need people to reinforce what we’ve come to embrace as our strengths and weaknesses, in order to know where to put our energy as we continually strive to be better people, albeit in subtle ways at times.
Graphology is a truly a remarkable science. Countless people find solace in journaling, writing letters, or even writing notes on the fridge. It is through these instances that a graphologist is able to analyze handwriting samples to determine anything from the emotional state the person was in while writing the selection, to what dubious intentions they had that may have otherwise gone under the radar. Employers can evaluate employees or candidates and determine where there best fit would be within the company, based on character traits exhibited from their writing. Psychologists can keep up on patients, scrutinizing their scrawling to the last detail to determine if progress is being made. The possibilities are nearly endless.
Self publishing is the New Black
Writer’s scour around for the perfect ending to their story and sometimes beat around the bush because they are in dire need of a bottom line. The truth is writers are just waiting for the best solution to their finished project – which is of course, to publish what they have slaved over for years.
Writing a book is the easiest part of the process and getting them published may impugn one’s patience and bank account. When authors give up hopes of ever being picked by a traditional publisher, they turn to self-publishing.
Authors who have made it big in the industry have chosen to self-publish at some point in their careers: Rudyard Kipling, Ernest Hemmingway, Margaret Atwood, Stephen King, Carl Sandburg, and James Redfield just to name a few, and one can see how they all fared in the industry.
If a writer is looking for self-publishing companies to publish a book, there are a few companies that practically hold court to everything a book needs from book cover design customization, layout consultation, copyediting and even marketing. This brings the writer then to the process of going through production and seeing the actual product in book form already.
The Secret to Breaking Through Writer’s Block
Think about writer’s block for a moment. It’s frozen creativity. A river that has been stopped up. Writer’s block is that uncomfortable tightness around your throat. Like a low-grade headache, it’s an uncomfortable pressure that never seems to go away. It feels like we have no control over it, but we do.
The key to understanding writer’s block is this: like a strait jacket, the more you struggle against it, the worse it gets. If you sit at your desk and think, “Okay. I’m going to get creative here. I’ve got to break through this”, your mind seizes up, goes blank, wanders off to the mall, refuses to answer your phone calls.
So here’s the secret. Get into the creative flow in some other area of your life. Do something else that inspires you. Your writing will soon begin to flow too.
What are some creative flow activities? Here are my latest: