For Writers

If you like to write or even if you want to get paid for it, since I have enjoyed writing since I was in grade school and writing stories and getting B's and A's on most of my  writing since about the 4th grade through College I thought I might share what works for me regarding "writer's block". First of all I never get writer's block anymore (and seldom ever did) because of the way I structure(or don't structure) my life.

There are some basic rules for never getting writer's block:
1. First rule: Don't box yourself in so you feel trapped in your life.
2. Second rule: The best time to write is when you don't wake up to any alarm clock or anyone yelling at you to get up. This way you get up completely rested and come from a dream or heaven realm kind of place and so you wake up happy to write and know exactly what to write about. Often if I do this I start writing even before going to the bathroom or anything else so I don't lose my new happy idea of what to write about.
3. When you get an idea jot it down enough to fill it in later (even if it is notes on your Iphone that you pull over to the side of the road to jot down under the notes button and then transfer it later to your laptop or Ipad or whatever keyboard you like to use. (These can be prose, poetry, lyrics for songs etc.)

4. Honor your ideas by not presenting them to the unawakened or unillumined until you are ready which could be soon or never. These ideas are your "babies" so take care of them. Nurture them so they can grow up into something amazing just like children in real life. Years from now they may take on a life of their own. You don't know now. Now they need your protection from the unenlightened and unwashed until they are ready for the world.

5 By honoring yourself, your rest, your ideas, your relationship with yourself and all life, you often wind up with something really amazing if you nurture the ideas properly at every stage just as if they were your own children.

For Writers

For Writers. If you have read a lot of my blogs or online books you have probably noticed that I hate to edit. No, it's beyond that I detest it. I suppose it is a lot like watching your baby being born and then having to screw the kid completely up by teaching him shit you really don't want to. I suppose it would be like taking a tiger out of the jungle and putting a tutu on him and making him do a ballet. It's very upsetting. I like primal stuff, shamanistic and caveman stuff but I also like kindness. So I'm for creating a kinder world without destroying its basic wildness. Quite a balancing act if I may say so. But I believe without our wildness as humans, we WILL go extinct. I've seen enough life by now to know this is a fact no matter what fairy tale people want to live in.

So, since I have been lucky enough to still have a lot of my primal abilities intact unlike many people, I try to share just how wonderful it is to still be primal yet kind. In other words I believe in being as kind as one can be and still survive quite well here on earth. If people choose to be poor then that's alright with me but that is not my choice as long as I have a choice and I do.

So, my gift to the world I believe is my philosophy of wildness, primalness and yet kindness toward all beings in the universe. This does not mean I don't believe in self defense. On the contrary, being 6 foot 5 inches people tend to get out of the way for me a lot. So I dampen my personality down so I don't come off the full Tiger(or Dragon) that I naturally am so people don't crap their pants when they meet someone 6 foot 5 inches tall with size 15 shoes.

My basic primal yet kind philosophy extends to my writing. While I grew up I loved writers, like Hugh Lofting then Heinlein, then Asimov then Clarke, Silverburg and others. Yes, I gravitated toward Science fiction but mostly toward science fiction written by Scientists like Asimov. That is why I always liked Gene Roddenbury because he always wrote based upon Theoretical science and physics. So many of his works emulate our future. I too, like to write in this direction.

For me, my life experience as a world traveler who has been to places like Europe and Asia and even to the Himalayas up to 50 miles from the nearest dirt road and staying in Sherpa homes where a fire is built in the living room and the smoke goes out the eves while it is snowing outside. And by the way the fire is for cooking not heating the house. I have met yogis who have just come out of the retreats of 17 years and watched their glow of awareness at a level that most of us can only imagine. I witness ed personally Ling Rinpoche sitting on a table (in teaching mudra) having not eaten or moved for 2 years while still not decomposing and with awareness still projecting from his body in February 1986.(This incident brought me to tears it so completely altered my world paradigm). Because I have been blessed with these experiences that are so completely different than the average person is EVER exposed to I feel a moral obligation to share that the American world view is in the end a very small one compared to what humans are actually capable of.

I guess as a writer and as a blogger that is what I'm trying to say,"People and beings everywhere, open your mind, open your eyes, the universe is trillions of times more amazing than you have even started to imagine!"