In 1985 in New York City, I was lucky enough to take a self development course for writers with Lawrence Block, “Writing for Your Life”, which included some hypnosis techniques. Over the years, that course has helped me to become a much more confident writer; I’ve used hypnosis ever since.

Here are three hypnosis tips which will help you to clear your writing blocks.

1. Define Your Writing Goals: You Must Know What You Want

Start by defining your writing goals. I like to create “process” goals, as well as achievement goals. A process goal is completely under your control. For example, “I will write 2000 words a day” is a process goal, whereas “I will sell my novel by December 31, 2009″ is an achievement goal.

Ensure that your goals are SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and timely).

Once you’ve defined your goals, you can use hypnosis to achieve them.

2. Use Hypnosis to Help You to Achieve Your Goals

Hypnosis is simply suggestion. We’re all flooded with suggestions every day — all advertising is suggestion for example. The biggest benefit of hypnosis is that you become aware of how much suggestion impacts your life. Then, you can create your own suggestions to counteract these everyday suggestions.

All suggestions are powerful, but they have the greatest effect when you’re a child. There’s no need to rummage through your past however, you can see the results suggestions have had on you — just look around you. Early suggestions formed your beliefs, and your beliefs trigger your actions.

When you learn self hypnosis, you can create your own powerful suggestions which will change your beliefs. Wouldn’t you love to believe that writing is easy and fun for you? You can suggest anything you like to yourself during self hypnosis, and your beliefs will change.

3. Learn Self Hypnosis: It’s Useful in All Areas of Your Life

Self hypnosis is useful in all areas of your life, not just in your writing, so it’s a skill which is well worth learning.

If you’re not familiar with hypnosis, you have many questions. Hypnosis is simply a skill; it’s something you can learn, and then something you do. You don’t have to “believe” in hypnosis to clear your writing blocks effectively, any more than you have to “believe” in jogging to get fit.

It’s possible to learn self hypnosis from a CD, but for best results, have at least one session with a qualified hypnotherapist. You need to know how it feels to be hypnotized — once you’ve experienced the hypnosis mind state, you can practice until you become skilled at self hypnosis.

Hypnosis helps you to manage your mind, your emotions, and your life. Take the time to learn self hypnosis. Not only can you clear your writing blocks, but you can become the writer you were born to be.

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“Have fun” seems simplistic. After all, you have clients who depend on you, and projects you must complete — you have a mortgage to pay. What’s fun got to do with it?

Fun has a great deal to do with it. Think about a time when you were intensely  creative. For most of us, that time of high creativity ended when we were around eight years old. Would you like that childlike glee with your writing back again? Little kids are never blocked and rarely stressed. They love to play, and that’s the secret.

Here are three tips which will help you to look on your for-pay writing as fun.

1. Write for Yourself First, then for Others

In 30 years of writing, I’ve learned that my inner kid can turn off my creativity like a tap when it gets bored. The kid doesn’t care about deadlines and money, the kid just wants to have fun.

Think about when you first started writing: try to recapture that excitement. Feel it. Now complete this sentence (write it down): “To really have FUN with my writing, I’d like to write__________ and ____________ and ___________”. Keep writing. You may be surprised at what you’d love to write, just for fun.

Your “fun” writing primes the pump for all your other writing. It’s your warm glow within. When that warm glow dies, all your writing dies. So keep that warm glow alive.

2. Develop a No-Stress Writing Schedule: Get Help when You Need It

Your primary goal as a writer who’s writing for profit should be to keep your writing schedule as stress-free as possible. If there things you could pay others to do, pay them.

For example, a virtual assistant could help you with your email, and the many other housekeeping chores of your writing business. She or he could also do basic research for you, freeing up time for you to write. If you hate marketing, you can also out-source some of those tasks.

If you’re just starting out as a “for pay” writer, you may only be making $60 an hour. However, you can get a virtual assistant for $30 an hour. If you take the plunge and delegate stress-inducing tasks, you’ll be amazed at how much more you get done… and that your income goes up.

3. Shush! Stay Silent on Gestating Projects

Have many projects have you talked away? Think about it.

Gestating projects, those projects which are so new they’re just a glimmer in your eye, are delicate. You can ruin them completely if you talk about them with anyone, even your nearest and dearest. Keep all projects strictly under wraps until you’ve completed at least a first draft, or if it’s a Web site, until you have the site online.

I hope these three tips help you. They come from experience. To build your career and making money writing, remember to have fun: it’s vital. Here’s how to become prolific and write more.

Write more – become a pro writer

Yes, you can write more and become an expert writer - even if you’re a world-class procrastinator.

Did you know that when you write more, your writing improves? Many of my writing students experience this. They find that when they write more, writing is easier for them – they’re not dominated by their inner editor.

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Here’s the secret to great creativity and eliminating writer’s block for good: have fun with your writing.

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