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5 Prompts to Click Your Brain Into Book-Writing Mode
I’ve taught over 5,000 people to trigger flow anytime they need it and to turn that flow into anything they ever want to create.
For your personal book-writing turn-on, here are five of the most flow-triggering writing prompts I’ve ever created.
Buckle up.
There are two things you need to know
if you want to write a beloved, purpose-driven book without the process becoming painful or taking over your life for years on end.
1. Your brain operates in at least 5 different modes during a book project. Learning to trigger just one of these—flow mode—and to stay out of the other modes until the right time is the single biggest difference between people who love writing their books and those who hate the process.
It’s also the difference between the 80% of people who say they want to write a book and the 1% who actually do.
You cannot be in flow mode and edit mode, or any of the other modes, at the same time. To get into flow mode, you must practice writing, ideally every day, with no editing or self-censorship allowed. Write something everyday no one will ever see.
Practice writing really badly, and practice just letting words flow out of your head onto the page: bad spelling, bad grammar, bullet points, whatever comes out. Even if it’s just a list of ideas or things you love about life. Practice this kind of writing with the prompts in this download. 1 prompt/day. Aim for 750 words or 3 longhand pages. But if you do one sentence, that works! And if you do 10,000 words, that works, too. Let ‘er rip.
2. You’ve already done the hardest part of writing your purpose-driven book, without even knowing it.
You’ve already lived a bunch of stories, experiences, shifts and transitions that have unlocked your particular point of view. That’s the hardest part. Now all we have to do is turn on the flow switch, crank up the momentum dial and let these experiences flow onto the page.
I’ll show you how.
“I’ve been waking up at 5:30 am naturally with excitement to write.”
I ended with a free flowing 1401 words today, waking up at 5:30 am naturally with excitement to write, and feeling very inspired with this prompt.
~Dania Jimenez
“I’ve never written this much. EVER.”
Generally, when I feel the urge to write I get out what I need to say in about a page. But today’s prompt has brought out a different side of writing. I’m four pages in and still have more to say. I’ve never written this much. EVER. It’s raw and honest.
~ Rae B. Bernie