Unleashing The Books Inside

Unleashing The Books Inside

by | Sep 2, 2024 | Scribing

Definition of a BookwrightRecent changes on Insight Timer caused me to rethink, recalibrate and reset over the Summer.

This is partly to prepare for when we can promote subscription offerings via the app and partly to create a second string to my bow should income decrease, it occurred to me that I should resurrect Tom the author’s mentor.

So on the Autumn Equinox, TheBookwright will be reincarnating and I will be launching a much revamped version of my self-study programme for authors. It has most recently been called “How to Channel Your Book” but this version may regress to an earlier title of “Unleash the Book Inside”. I sense though that a better title than both is lurking out there and I will allow it to percolate to the surface as I create the course.

UPDATE : the course will come out later as a new book came in …

It will consist of seven modules and take you through a process that I use to allow a book, or any creative writing, to come through me. So you can use it for any writing exercise like a course, a thesis or even a new product or business proposal.

Alongside it, I’ll also be delivering 1-2-1 book, business or personal discovery sessions too.

In itself, it’s a precursor to a larger programme I’ll launch in 2025 when it’s more clear how the Insight Timer promotional mechanism will work.

In the meantime, the same creative engine is churning away. For example, I’ve created a playlist of my latest free output on the app.

Additionally, I’ve also started a new series mindfully and timefully short #TimefulTasks which will have its own playlist once I have three published. They will be published on each New and Full Moon and you can listen to today’s here.

Soulwaves The DuadexThe serialisation of Soulwaves : A Future History will be complete on the 1st of October. I am in three minds about what to follow it up with. The natural successor woul be Soulwaves : The Duadex of which I have a fifth already written and recorded. Like all authors, a fear surfaces about the missing 4/5ths.

Questions abound like :

  • Am I good enough?
  • Where can I take it?
  • Is the answer is already written in the stars?
  • Does the answer lie in me taking my own course so this book can be unleashed from inside me?
  • Or should I record two non-fiction books that never quite made into audiobooks?
  • Blocks and New Magic for a New Era, is it your time?
  • Will Insight Timer wake up and really support audiobooks?
  • Would not writing The Duadex be a cop out and a convenient “being creatively uncreative” procrastination?

I am sure the answers will emerge by the time the Moon becomes New once more … perhaps the answer is not to choose between the options but to do them all. This leads to another question. Now our new house is complete, is it time to turn up the dial on production to eleven?

The Significance of an Equinox

by | Mar 20, 2013 | Timing

March Equinox 2013This post has been timed for publication on the day and exact time of the Spring Equinox …

The exact time of this cosmically significant event is 20th March at 11:02 UTC

From where I am sitting and where you are reading this blog, we are completely unaware of this twice yearly event – and why should we be? In our modern day world where we are totally in control, nothing as trivial as the orientation of the Earth could possibly have any effect on us … surely?

When viewed from space however, a different perspective emerges. We can see clearly that half the world is in darkness and half in light. Well there is nothing new there as it is like that every day of the year. The difference is that the cusp between light and dark is lined up with the rotational axis of the planet.

This means that every person on the planet experiences approximately the same amount of daylight and darkness, apart from those standing right on the Poles … and of course miners and submariners.

The exact time and day of the equinox, however, is not strictly that important. What is significant is that we should use it as a time for reflection. Too often our years just bleed into each other with each one following the pattern of the last. The fact that the Earth goes around in circles doesn’t mean we have to.

It doesn’t matter so much if there is any astrological or cosmological significance to the Equinox, just that every so often we should take stock and do some forward planning and, once we’ve done that, we should take action.

Spring is a great time to start a new project – for example, I’ve written all my books in Spring – something I only realised after I’d published the fourth book !

So for the last two months I have been planning and Mind Mapping my next book – today I start to write it in earnest !!

So, whether you are planning to write a book, or not, take some time out today to Spring Forward and so the seeds of what you are going to grow over the next 12 months.

Note, although the word equinox is often understood to mean “equal [day and] night”, this is not strictly true. For most locations on Earth, there are two distinct identifiable days per year when the length of day and night are closest to being equal; those days are referred to as the “equiluxes” to distinguish them from the equinoxes. Equinoxes are points in time when the Sun is right over the equator. Equiluxes are days which can be a couple of weeks either side and can vary depending where we are on the planet.