Writing

Story from M.J

Before doing Sandy’s Seminar I felt constricted and completely blocked whenever I tried to write.  Just one week after the seminar I wrote for one hour straight and felt completely freed up.

Story from B.J, VIC

I learned how to tap into my creative self through a very specific meditation guided by Sandy.

Suddenly the room, sounds and people around me disappeared and I was alone, seeing only a part of a novel in progress that I was seriously having trouble with.  That part of the plot was all spread out beneath me.   My hero and heroine became alive, they "told" me what they wanted to do, how they wanted their story written.  I sat up and started writing without much conscious awareness of what I was doing.  I could feel it was right.

Story from Y.M

Last year I entered the Society of Women Writers Short Story Competition on a Biography or Autobiography of an Australian woman’s way of life. I wrote about my last 30 days in South Vietnam in 1968 which were traumatic to me personally.

Anyway, I was advised by phone I had been short-listed with 9 others.

For the next 10 days I imagined I could walk freely from the station (previously I had been getting a taxi once I got off the train, due to RA affecting my feet). I then imagined myself in the usually crowded room, sitting with people I wished to be with (one never knows who will be turning up when.) Listening to Judges comments, and then making my way to the rostrum to collect the award. I imagined I would be asked to read the story.

All this happened as I imagined. What I didn’t imagine or make allowances for was the emotional tears and quivering — the highs and sometimes a few lows which were quickly filled with helium to get back up there again. Oh what a feeling!

At the present time I’m short-listed for the Henry Lawson Short Story Competition.

As I look at the crowded mantelpiece in our lounge room I imagine everything has disappeared into space and the bronze Henry Lawson Statue has emerged, to sit in pride of place. Best wishes and thank you.

Update on above story

Just thought you might like an update on my last letter so that you can ponder whether it’s G.I. or talent – but I have won the Henry Lawson Adult Short Story Award and the 30 inch statuette of Henry Lawson is sitting on the mantelpiece just as I imagined it to be. I think myself it’s a combination of G.I. + talent + I’ve given myself permission to go for it.... Best Wishes.

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