Writing is an expression of your own mind. People read and view stories with their minds. Therefore, if you wish to be successful, you have to turn your attention to your own mind, so you can upgrade its functioning and so influence and inspire the minds of your audience.

Your mind has four levels. The unconscious, the subconscious, the conscious and the superconscious.

The unconscious is the intelligence governing the organic functioning of your body. The subconscious is your personal memories. The conscious is the everyday chatter of familiar thoughts as well as the logical and rational faculties. The superconscious is the source of inspiration, intuition, higher intelligence and genius. It is also the abode of the Mythopoetica, which is the faculty that creates dreams and all great stories.

Most people’s superconsciousness is drowned by the activities of their conscious and subconscious mind. They are on automatic, playing out the patterns that were inserted into them during their childhood. Many even have no idea whatsoever what their mind is, and how it operates.

This is unfortunate because it is their mind that creates their life through the choices they make.

For a writer, it is also their mind that creates their stories. The more pedestrian the mind, the more ordinary the story, and the less attractive it is to an audience.