Step Inside the Minds of Online Success Masters
July 25, 2003
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Jeff's Article Review...
Hi Everyone!
Heading up to your cottage this weekend?
Taking a trip to see your friends or family?
Just going to enjoy some well-deserved downtime, or...
Using this time to work toward your dream of building your
own online infoproduct empire?
Whatever you're doing, today's easy to read, motivational
and highly informative article "Write Before You Look" penned
by successful author Angela Booth and publisher of the
digital-e.biz site
will help all you get rid of
writer's block, enhance your creativity allowing you to put
your stamp on your writing, and most important, quickly finish
your project so you can begin generating orders fast.
Here's a few comments, before you jump to the article...
Tip 1: List Your Experience
If you have experience to bring to your writing topic - whether it be a book, article, ad, web page, article, newsletter or any other written communication - tell people about it.
Your book is on raising kids, then how many years experience do you bring?
Your infoproduct shares proven money-saving ideas on buying cars - how many deals have you done? How much money have you saved?
Unwritten truth about increasing your credibility is that people are far more likely to listen to someone who has experience to bring to the topic AND can state that experience in fact -- using specific numbers, experiences, and testimonials.
Watch your readership and sales skyrocket by adding personal experience and specific facts into your infoproducts/infoproduct marketing.
Comment 2: Challenge the reader with questions
Nothing works better -- outside perhaps shock value -- at gaining and keeping attention than asking your readers questions.
Not only does asking questions allow you to engage your readers it also allows you to emotionally "setup" your reader to be receptive to what you are about to unveil
Angela challenges the reader with this statement... "Take a moment. Think. How often have you taken the word of your
left brain?"
Not only does this focus our attention, but it sets us up perfectly for the very purpose of her article - techniques for increasing the use of your right brain (or creativity side of your brain).
Watch for this technique, it's used in all kinds of sales letters, ads, web page copy, and articles as a method of mentally positioning readers into being receptive to the writer's message.
A very powerful tool that is one key principle of masterful copywriting
Of COURSE we all want to find a quick and simple method to achieve what we so badly want.
Now, grab your coffee, tea, or other bubbly drink, sit into your chair and enjoy today's article.
Thanks for reading.
Jeff
jeff@infoproductcreator.com
http://www.infoproductcreator.com
http://www.infoproductcreator.com/hypnotic.html
Today's Power-Packed Article
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"Write Before You Look"
by Angela Booth
Are you stuck on a writing project? Or is there something you'd love
to write, but you can't get up the nerve to start? In over 25 years of
writing, I've found that writing happens on the page. Just start writing.
You can't do anything until you begin.
Other writers make the same point. In his book *Immediate Fiction, A
Complete Writing Course*, author Jerry Cleaver recommends that when you're
writing, "you leap first and look later". Cleaver believes
that when you're creating, you should let your imagination do the heavy
lifting. Daydream. Pretend. Let your imagination lead you where it wants
to go. You will write more, and reach places you can’t get to in
any other way.
Writing, like any creative endeavor, requires that we use both sides
of our brain, the left and the right. Our left brain is the dominant
partner, and while we're awake, our left brain is active. This means
that when we think: "No way, I could never write a book" or
"I could never write a screenplay" we're taking the word of
our left brain.
The creative impulse came from our creative right brain, but our left
brain, which deals in realities, immediately said: "Whoa! No, you've
no evidence for that. Couldn’t do that --- you've never done it
before. Wouldn’t work. Silly idea."
Take a moment. Think. How often have you taken the word of your
left brain? Decide today, that whenever you get a creative impulse, the
very impulse which gave you that idea also knows how to make it work,
so all you have to do is put your body in the place where that can happen.
The creative impulse comes to all creatives, so if you get an impulse
to take a photograph, or paint, or cook, or sew a scarf --- follow through.
For writers, the place to follow through is with a pen in hand, or in
front of a computer screen.
Here's a process to use to become familiar with writing before you look.
Try it. It will feel unfamiliar at first, and you'll worry about whether
you're doing it "right". Be assured that as long as your body
is relaxed, your left brain is (more or less) out of the way, and you're
freeing your creative right brain.
=> The Write Before You Look Process
==> One: Clear your mind
>From the moment you wake up in the morning, your left brain is in
charge. This side of your brain does a great job of getting you where
you need to be, and helps you to fit into society, but it's not creative.
To allow your right brain's creative impulses to get your attention,
you need to quiet your left brain. Any repetitive task will do this.
Knitting and needlework are good. So are walking and driving, and taking
a shower. Listening to classical music also works.
You can't always be moving around, so it's best to learn a sit-down
process. The easiest way to clear your mind is to progressively relax
every part of your body. If you've ever done any stress-reduction courses,
you'll know that in progressive relaxation you focus on your body from
your toes to the top of your head, and gently relax all your muscles.
Just take each part of your body in turn, and tell each set of muscles
to relax.
When you first learn this process, it can take around ten minutes to
become completely calm and relaxed. After a few weeks, you'll be able
to do it in less than a minute. You can speed up the process by mentally
saying "relax" to each part of your body. In time, you'll become
as limp as cooked spaghetti whenever you say the magic word to yourself.
If you're not familiar with progressive relaxation, here's a complete
course:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/har/les1.htm
==> Two: Write down your creative impulses
When you're completely relaxed, gently focus on your breathing. You'll
find that your breaths gradually deepen more and more, and that they
slow right down. This is the effect you want.
When your breathing has slowed, keep focusing on your breathing, but
also think about what creative work you'd like to do. What would you
like to write, if you could?
Just daydream for five minutes. If a creative idea comes to you, write
it down, then drift back into your daydream.
You may not get any creative ideas while you're daydreaming. They may
come later as you're doing something else. This is fine. Your right brain
doesn’t "think" in language. It uses feelings and emotions
to communicate. Your left brain translates these right-brain impulses
into words. When you first start to actively try to get creative ideas,
the communication between the two sides of your brain is slow. It will
become more rapid the more you practice.
==> Three: Follow through on an impulse immediately if
you can
Got a creative idea? Great.
If you can, follow through on it immediately. If you can’t, write
down enough of the idea so that you can recall it easily later in the
day. Vital: also write down any images which are floating through your
mind. What mental pictures do you see? These are additional parts of
the creative impulse that your left brain hasn't yet translated into
words. Capture them now by writing them down.
You can work with intensively with your right brain images by using
Win Wenger's Image Streaming process. Here's how ---
http://www.debateit.net/improvethought/
imagestreaming.htm
Some writers find that they can immediately write an entire 2000 word
article, or a chapter of a book after they clear their mind. This process
is very powerful.
==> Four: Drop judgments --- enjoy making a mess
You've followed through, and you're writing. However, it’s messy.
It doesn’t completely make sense.
Excellent!! This is exactly what you want. It's your guarantee that
the idea you're developing is original. All creation starts with a mess.
Work on the project again tomorrow. Keep working. Chances are that you're
making a creative breakthrough. Remember it's your left brain that's
making these early judgments. You can safely ignore them.
==> Five: Never assume that you "know" anything
You've cleared your mind, and when you read through your creative ideas
later you get scared to death. You can't do this. You can't write a complete
book, or submit your article proposal to Redbook. And you surely can’t
dig that manuscript out of your bottom drawer and whip it in shape to
send to a publisher.
Of course you can. Remember, your left brain is NOT creative. Clearing
your mind so that you can let your creative right brain work will convince
you that you DO have lots of creative ideas.
Unfortunately, your left brain doesn’t trust them. That's OK.
Remember that the part of your brain that's belittling all your ideas
is your left brain.
Ignore it. Trust your creative impulses and follow through. Clear your
mind first, to muffle your left brain. Then let your right brain do the
creative work.
Write before you look. That's the entire process. Try it. You'll amaze
yourself.
Remember: the creative impulse that gave you the idea, also knows
how to carry out the idea. So if you've got an impulse to write a book,
write it. You already have everything you need to do it.
To read more articles by Angela Booth, visit the Digital-
e Web site--Information for writers and creatives.
Ebooks, free ezines, Creatives Club. Love to write? Turn
your talent into a business!
http://www.digital-e.biz/
WRAPPING IT UP!
Have a super weekend, feel free to drop me a line.
I'll see you in a week with the next full issue of "Online
Marketing Success Secrets Revealed!"
Here's how you can reach me...
mailto:jeff@infoproductcreator.com
Have a super weekend!
Jeff Smith
http://www.infoproductcreator.com
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