How to Write Your Book Using Your Intuition
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- INFJ personality types and INFP personality types are people with a naturally intuitive temperament. These types are also usually called to be writers. What most INFJs and INFPs don’t know is that, for intuitive people, intuitive ability is intertwined with creative ability.
This is not talked about or understood in the general population, and so intuitive people tend to try to take the “normal course” when it comes to writing a book. Most intuitive writers try to settle on an idea, write an outline, and brainstorm plot points or chapter summaries. It doesn’t matter if the project is fiction or nonfiction, most writers try to follow this same course.
However, when the intuitive writer tries to actually start writing the book, they hit a wall. They feel blocked and stuck, and they also feel a great deal of dread and resistance. Even though the original idea they had felt juicy and magical, when they try to write it down, the writing feels halting and horrible. Why does this happen?
It happens because when an intuitive person tries to use rational methods to write a book, it doesn’t work. The intuitive writer is swimming upstream against their own talents. This is why intuitive people need to work with an intuitive creative process when it comes to writing, or they won’t be able to sustain the energy to finish writing projects. Using an intuitive writing process can change everything for an intuitive person who is trying to write, but is also suffering from writing blocks.
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I am so brainwashed into trying to do a everything in my life in a rational and linear manner. It is so frustrating.
I love this! Thank you! As an INFJ, I'm glad I found this before I started looking into "traditional" methods to help me with my book idea. I could never really imagine writing out an outline, writing the story feels more like channeling something. I write what I feel happening, as I feel it. It's like being in a meditative flow state, like the story is flowing through me, and its like the story takes me where it's going not the other way around. Im so glad that I'm not alone or crazy for writing this way! Im so grateful to have found this help!
"You write the outline parallel to your book": *dingdingdingdingding*!!!! That is how I do it! I make sure I write down every idea I come up with, when I come up with it. The only structure in place, I suppose, is that I use a separate document containing EVERYTHING I write when I write it, also the deleted parts, written in real time together with all the ideas I get, next to a secundary document that only contains what the end result is. I also tried the sensor-thinking writing, because I thought I needed to try and get better at that because I knew it to be my weakness. But since I decided to embrace my strength instead, things suddenly took off 😀 I guess we INF's need to embrace a certain degree of intuitive freedom at all times to really do better (not just as a writer I might add!)... "Intuitive freedom", hell yeah 😊😊😊
- INFP
Same here. I have an "everything,/expanded document ' and a parallel 'cleared/simpliefied one to the point".infj are smart enough to create a structure intuitively
This is exactly what happened to me when I signed up to finish my book!! I signed up for a course for a different writing coach, and it was great because I had always had a huge imagination for storytelling, but plot was hardddaa for me for my book, which they could help with. So when I did the course, I kept mostly focusing on the outline, thinking if I could figure every detail and character profiles that it would be easy to go back and write it. Well, once I finished the outline, this is exactly what happened. I hit a hugeeee wall. And almost kept on feeling iffy about the outline, i kept thinking, ... what if my character doesn't want to do to this way, what if this is wrong, what if ... what if... what if? And then i just didn't even want to touch my book at all. So this makes so much sense on whyyy as an infp I struggled with rational structures
Thanks for this video! I was literally reading a book about intuitive writing this morning, so this is right on target. I would love to hear about famous writers who use an intuitive process to write. The nice thing about checking out videos/interviews of famous writers is that they are easy to find and there is a proven, finished product to refer to.
I found your content through diving into my INFP personality when I started dating someone that I found out was an INFJ-match made In Heaven. Many synchronicities have been happening to me with the idea of writing coming into my head about a year ago. I never considered myself a “writer” even though I have journaled constantly for the last 20years. I recently started allowing myself to daydream more and have been discovering these little creative stories coming out along with many other synchronicities guiding me towards writing something. Thank you for the information you put out, it has been incredible helpful in my realizations that my brain basically works opposite to societal norms and that the processes that I thought were abnormal and wrong are actually just the way my brain operates. It’s extremely affirming and validating. Thank you
The idea of writing a whole book is so intimidating.. I've started with a couple of well crafted essays (eventually, hopefully, growing into a series of essays) that beg for additional context and elaboration as a way for me to think about outlining and chapters. Hopefully those essays will fall inline with a cohesive theme that could be the actual focus of the work...
Personally when i go off of intuition I'll fix a scene and keep fixing it. But i also like to keep in the back of my mind the goals of my chapter. So when the character is making discussions i know if i need to toss something in. Just so that it'll be easier to edit. Because intuition drags you all over the place.
Brilliant. Sounds like I'm doing it already...intuitively
This is so spot on. (I'm INFP-T). I've experienced this while writing my first draft. I completed plotting the 1st act of my 2nd draft and then I got stuck. I appreciate your suggestion of plotting as I go. Thank you.
Incredibly helpful. Thank you!!!
... I'm in awe.. I have soooo many visions of ideas and your advice is great!!!
Thank you so much for this video 😊
Thank you so much 👍
Always so useful, thanks, Lauren. Really needed this perspective today. I'm writing 2 books at once - one semi plotted and the other a little hobby aka not even in the genre I want to write in. So I'm doing that one purely on instinct. One of the main things that strikes me is that that one is fun, the other is stressful and really hard to pull together. It shows in the writing! Will you talk more about "thinking in a web"? What did that mean?
I am struggling with editing my novel. I wrote it intuitively and the process was so fun, magical and enjoyable. Now I'm editing and polishing and I feel so stuck and overwhelmed. Do you have any advice for editing intuitively? All the methods I have read about make me overthink and question every word I wrote with no clarity of when it's "good enough". It feels overwhelming.
Hire an editor. It helps to have another pair of eyes and a different pov