screen your mind won’t be able to edit your work. (Some new soft-
ware comes with a built-in program to prevent you from seeing the
screen as you write. See http://www.HypnoticWriting Wizard.com)
Step Three: Trust What HappensEverything in life is—or can be—a learning experience. Even if
you don’t write the draft you think you want to write, you will
write something. And you will learn something in the process.
Accept that.
Trusting Self Two, the Master Writer, means being willing to ex-
periment. By letting the Master Writer within you come through
and direct, or influence, your writing you will be giving yourself
the opportunity to learn, to grow, to expand, and to enrich your
writing.
Trust the inner game approach to writing.Allowwords to flow
through you. Don’t edit them. You’ve set your goal. You’ve focused
on something in the moment to keep the editor inside quiet. And
you wrote something as a result—probably something surprising
and maybe even spectacular. Self Two came through!
Self Two probably already helps you in your writing. Whenever
you think you want to write a larger work, say a novel, you usually
have a sense of the whole project. You don’t have the completeidea
in your mind, only a sense that it will be a novel. Well, how do you
know it’s a novel and not a short story? Somehow your feeling—
where is itcoming from?—lets you know your idea is going to be a
book. You haven’t begun the book and haven’t even thought much
about it. But it feels like a novel and not a story.
Whom are you trusting? What part of you is telling you, “This is
a book!”? Isn’t it the Master Writer within you?
If you have difficulty playing the inner game of Hypnotic Writ-
ing, it is because your inner editor, nasty old Self One, has a tight
grip on your mind. That’s okay. You’re not doomed. There’s hope!
You can try doodling for awhile before writing. Or put on some
meditative background music, something gentle and soothing like
Baroque music (notthe Rolling Stones!). Or try freewriting for a
while to loosen up. Runners stretch before a race. You can warm up
The Inner Game of Hypnotic Writing