One Year Old This Month!

MindSlap - Spiritual Psychology Substack publication is one year old. So far, I’ve posted 88 articles. I have no idea how many notes and restacks I’ve posted. I am fortunate to have 705 free subscribers and 4,422 followers. It’s rather like living in a small town!

Writing has always been my passion in one form or another. I am a cross-genre writer with ten fiction books and 11 nonfiction books.

I was once asked how I would describe what writing is like. I wanted to share this with you on my one-year anniversary here.

True Confession

Passion stirs your soul, and the words slam against the edges of your mind, trying to escape, until finally your fingers fly across the keyboard. Your passion has now moved from the metaphysical to the physical. Your creation has taken form. Your world is afire with the energy of your creation. Then suddenly, it is over. The last word is on paper.

You breathe. Perhaps for the first time in weeks or months, you are aware of the world around you. You have left that fictional world or perhaps that imaginary classroom, and you are back in your world. What now? You are faced with the truth that despite your intense connection with your work, no one else has reason to feel as you do. You are faced with the task of marketing your book, and this is where your perspective on your dream will often begin to shift. You post on social networking sites. You and everyone else inundates people with reviews and excerpts until they aren't even noticed anymore. You set up a web site to promote your work. You get some rave reviews, but you realize over time that word-of-mouth is unlikely to be your friend because most of your readers are other authors dedicated to peddling their own creations. You look around, and you feel like that tiny speck in the cosmos that exists, but no one can really see.

There is a shift, and it changes your dream, changes your view on what you do and how you do it. This shift happened for me. I have been involved in writing longer than many indies, but not as long as some. I welcomed the advent of CreateSpace and Kindle for ease of production, both physically and financially, and for easy access by readers. However, trying to reach readers has become less effective and too time-consuming because it takes me away from my passion for too long.

So what was the shift that brought me back to writing?

I write once again because passion stirs my soul, and the words slam against the edges of my mind, trying to escape, until finally my fingers fly across the keyboard until my creation takes form. When the last word is on paper, I breathe with contentment. I introduce my creation to the world and trust it has the strength to soar because I have given it a piece of my soul.

In my publication I strive to share transformative ideas for changing one’s life for the better. I also share my poetry/vers libre which always emerges from my emotional experiences and my introspective moments. I believe we are each on our personal spiritual journey, even if we are not consciously aware of it. As with any learning experience, opening our minds and imaginations is a creative experience that elevates our lives with new and unexpected ideas. Being able to connect with others of like-mind and learning from them makes the journey more exciting and can even facilitate one’s spiritual growth.

All the best on on your quest,
Dannye Williamsen

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