Juiced On Writing

Created by Tom Evans, using some very nice technology, this is a self study course I highly recommend. Not strictly just a creative writing course, it’s more than that – it’s a Creativity Course combining dynamic technology, video and audio, mind maps and guided visualisations into relaxation  techniques designed to enhance your own inspiration and thought processes. Let me show you through Unleash the Book Inside You Self Study Course.

Technology and Access

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This is a course which runs through your browser. On purchase, Tom will send you a link to access the course. Please don’t share it. You will need Flash and Apple Quicktime installed for the course to run. I didn’t have Flash installed correctly (who knew?) but the first page of the course sends you to download and install Adobe Flash for problems such as I encountered. The guided visualisations in the course require Quicktime for the audio – which again needed updating from my own browser side.

Once into the course, you are presented with a graphical interface (See Screenshot 1) with a left hand sidebar contents pane, and the course running in the centre panel. The course itself runs like a movie – you have both a slide presentation, plenty of graphics, mind maps  and Tom’s audio narration helping you through both the course contents and the interface controls. You can quite simply run the entire course at your own pace, and return to various sections easily with the player controls.

About the Bookwright and the Course

Stop by the ‘About the Bookwright’ section, where Tom runs you through his background. He provides this summarised in a mind map. Tom arrived into writing from a broadcasting and technology background, and you can tell. Unleash the Book Inside You combines this knowledge, his work in writing and providing coaching for writers into a self study course which has a real spirtual and creative feel also.

Sometimes elements such as planning stories or even doing software mind maps can appear a little cold – perhaps overly technical. In organising a book, or organising our life, I have found how easy it is to sometimes forget about the mind, my dreams, and where my inspiration ultimately comes from – and how to access these creative parts of myself. This self study course brings back some of the magic of this creative process.

Mind Maps

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The course also centres around using mind maps for writing – inspiration and idea generation and planning writing. (See Screenshot 2).

Through the attachment tab, you can download all of the exercise mind maps as a PDF file. Mind maps are set as exercises also – and you are welcome to do these using coloured pencils and paper, or mind-mapping software. For the later, the course links you to free trials of either Tony Buzan’s iMap software or Mindjet’s MindManager software.

Guided Visualisations

Attached as part of the course components, you will also find several guided visualisations which run through Quicktime. These will run through a separate page in your browser, unless you have the QuickTime Pro, in which case you can download the source MP3 files.

The visualisations combine a narration from Tom, and some ethereal music, and guide you into a relaxed almost meditative state to locate your own creativity.

The Course Contents and Audience

Unleash the Book Inside You Self Study Contents

Part 1 : Inspiration

Your Guiding Motivation
About Your Book
Blockage Clearance
Visualisation 1 Embedding Mind Maps

Part 2 : Explanation

Using Models
Whole Brain Thinking
Three Mind Model
The Collective Mind
Definition of Inspiration
How do you spot them?
Entanglement
Cascade of Creativity
Visualisation 2 Journey to the Akashic

Part 3 : Preparation

Profiling Your Reader
Creating Rapport
Grounding Your Concept
Your Book Structure
Your Writing Plan
Getting the Start & End
Visualisation 3 Collapsing Thoughts

Part 4 : Publication

What is a Book?
Pre-flight
Publishing Options
Time Planning
e-Publishing

Part 5 : Execution

Getting in ‘the zone’
Making use of dream time
Keeping to schedule
Dealing with blocks
Producing your 1st draft
Recommended Reading
Mentoring & support
Visualisation 4 Future Entanglement

Part 6 : Resources

Useful Links – this is a dynamic html mindmap full of links.
About this presentation
The Bookwright Blog
Credits…

Note: this course needs time. Many of the modules may only take a few minutes to listen and watch through, and all-up there is possibly only a few hours of material which you can race through if you wish. But the visualisations are quite long, and you need to ‘attend’ to these. You also – as I found – may find yourself re-thinking something you learnt or heard at a later date, or while washing the dishes perhaps. Ideas need time to filter through your system.

Throughout the process, there will be times when you just want to rest, or others where you feel inspired to go and do the exercises – which again, can take as much time as you may like. The course has interspersed reminders and techniques to allow you to regain control of your own thoughts throughout the modules, for just this reason.

You will complete the self study course with a series of tools which will not only allow you to stop ‘thinking’ about writing, and actually ‘start’ writing, but which are also applicable to many other areas in your own life.

Give yourself time to go through this course, return to those parts that you particularly connected with, and listen again. Once you have purchased and accessed this course, it will always be available to you. Let the dialogue and connections filter in and out of your consciousness, and you will get the most out of this course.

The Course Audience

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Don’t let the title throw you – if you’re a stuck first time wannabe-a-writer type, who knows there’s a book in there somewhere, then yes – this is the self study course for you. That book will come out.

But the course also did me the world of good. I’m not a first time writer, but can hardly be suggested as being successfully published and a full time author. However, I have enough internal dialogue going on to run my village’s electricity supply if only I could tap it and give it away. And I know there is one or more new books there inside of me which I have mucked around in progressing with. Not only that, but I was somewhat surprised to learn from one self study module (The Writer’s Journey) that my path through my last novel pretty much followed the course diagram, complete with the resistance and some learning at the last chapter. (See Screenshot 3)

The course is as relevant to completely new writers as to experienced writers who may have already produced some writing projects.

Lastly, Unleash the Book Inside You Self Study Course is not only about creative writing. Sections 3 to 4 do deal with the writing process itself, but the other sections and modules found within these are also as relevant to many other creative projects. There is a lot towards the mechanics of the writing process, but in going through this course you realise that you have also been taught something about the mechanics of the core of your inspiration, and how to find that.

This course is not just for fiction, nor is it just for creative writing. If you’ve got a non-fiction book or information product inside of you, then allow this course to implement creative, karmic and holistic methods to locate, structure and write it.

Details – Unleash the Book Inside You Self Study Course

Unleash the Book Inside You Home Study Course is available from the BookWright website, currently for £69 (normally £99). I believe so much in this course that I’ve signed up to be an affiliate.

This is an unbelievable value considering the contents. You couldn’t get so much into a paper-based normal book, and this purchase will give you graphical models, audios, guided visualisations, copious book structuring, writing and marketing knowledge and applicable scientific and creative techniques guaranteed to unleash that book inside you.

Tom Evans also offers coaching / mentoring sessions with the Home Study students, and within England (and internationally) runs the Unleash the Book Inside You Workshops, which I personally one day am planning to attend.

LINKME: Unleash the Book Inside You Home Study Course (Affiliate Link)

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