Feng Shui for Writers Blog Tour

Book Details

• Title: Feng Shui For Writers
• Series: How To Master Your Life
• Author: M.C. Simon
• Genre: Non-Fiction
• Format: Paperback and Kindle
• Length: 152 pages
• Publication Date: June 16, 2015
• Publisher: IML Publishing
• Regular Price: $7.99 Kindle

 

Synopsis

DISCOVER HOW TO MASTER YOUR WRITING LIFE

FENG SHUI FOR WRITERS provides all the dots that you have to connect to control the flowing Chi for each writing category. What is harmony for a romantic novel writer is different from what is harmony for a journalist writer, and for sure very different than for the writer writing for the horror domain. To bring the Feng Shui technique into the writer's life, it is not enough to merely explain general principles and ideas; we have to dig deeper because the branches of writing are so numerous.

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Find Out HOW TO:

• Attract productivity, successful publishing and money using Feng Shui
• Overcome writer's block with Feng Shui help
• Organize your writing place to achieve your goals
• Influence your writing life through colors
• Use crystals for creative writing
• Use lighting to Feng Shui your writing space
• Choose the plants that will boost your creativity
• Influence your "writer's zone" and the creative mind
• Boost your children's creativity (yes… children are young writers also)

And much more.

 

Buy Links

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Excerpt

6.2 - THE WRITER'S ZONE

To understand what a writer's zone is, you must first experience the previous state called a writer's block. Then and only then will you understand how you can face it and how you can move to the writer's zone. This zone is exactly the opposite of a writer's block; it is the optimal phase in which a writer can find himself. It is the phase in which Chi flows freely on the writer's path, the creativity is boosted and the writing productivity reaches maximum level.

Having knowledge about both states, a writer's block and a writer's zone, you can save the wasted time between these two phases.

There are some elements that influence your entering into this zone.

• One of these is your location. Depending on where you live, you must find a writing environment that boosts your writing mood. Find a place suitable for you that you feel relaxed in and totally prepared to let the words flow.
• Take a walk in the park or the woods, go for a drive on a long unpopulated road. Don't forget to take the camera with you and take pictures that will help you relax the next time you need to enter into the writer's zone without having to walk again. A walk in a quiet and relaxing place is a good Feng Shui method to un-clutter your mind of stress.
• Do some brainstorming for your future book; try to prepare a good plot for your novel. Do some research on the theme that you want to write about.
• Avoid emails, other online temptations, phones and any other distractions that are blocking the Chi flow of your creativity and productivity.
• Listen to some music and prepare a playlist with your favorite relaxing songs. Use this list until it becomes a habit that is helping you enter into the writer's zone.
• Breathe! Yes, breathe. Fill your lungs with fresh air until they expand to the point where they touch, take a small pause then exhale slowly. Learn to breathe again, so the good Chi also enters your body.
• Burn some incense and use aromatic lamps for fragrance.
• Find a writing retreat in your area. Make it a part of your writing process. This will always get you into the zone. There are two kinds of retreats: solo retreats (suitable for writers who prefer solitude far away from any distractions including other writers) and group retreats (provides a chance for face to face group brainstorming). The best writing retreats are those that include both solo and group retreats. When you go to a writing retreat, be sure that you are applying the Feng Shui principles in that place also (you can even take a Bagua map with you).
• If your mind feels unclear in ideas, use a yellow vase where you place orange flowers. This will boost the intensity of your writing and will give you the necessary clarity.
• Don't forget to always include the water element in your space.
• Avoid too many electronic devices in the moments when you write because they will drain your energy, and soon you'll have to face another writer's block.
• Hang a wooden chime near you so its movement will activate any stagnant Chi.

 

Previously Published Excerpts

Who Is A Writer?

3 Things You Should Do Before Using Feng Shui  

About the Author

Writer, translator, engineer, researcher, project manager, blogger, eternal student... these are only a few words to describe MC Simon.

She strongly believes that energy is ours to use freely, and we need only to open our hearts to regain the lost perception of our true powers. She thinks that when the student is ready, the teacher appears. For this reason, M.C. Simon has never hunted the information but rather waited for the right moment when she would be ready for the information to find her. In the same way, she knows that when someone needs her, the Universe will proceed in such a way that the meeting will take place.

 

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MCSimonWrites.com

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How Becoming Human Saved an Alien

by Suellen Zima

When author Matt Haig was personally “living in a state of intense but irrational fear,” he conceived of a story in the year 2000 about an alien who voluntarily becomes a human and lives as happily ever after as an alien turned human can.   It makes for a thoughtful, sometimes humorous book entitled, “The Humans” finally published in 2013 after the author became famous through four other books.  It caught my eye because I am in the process of creating a friendship between an alien and a human in the new book I’m writing.
I loved the way the story evolved through twists and turns and never quite predictable events.  Haig presented an alien’s down to earth view of humans and their foibles.   He develops an appreciation of human relationships through a series of strange events.  Multi-dimensional humans and the complications of the human condition intrigue the main character beyond his ability to remain an alien.
He leaves a list of “Advice for a Human” for a mixed-up teen that could have been his son.  He summarizes succinctly, but deeply, sage advice worth every human’s consideration.  Number 6 is “Be Curious.  Question everything.  A present fact is just a future fiction.”  In number 9, he wisely points out, “Sometimes, to be yourself you will have to forget yourself and become something else.  Your character is not a fixed thing.  You will sometimes have to move to keep up with it.”
With his alien’s wisdom, he says, “You shouldn’t have been born.  Your existence is as close to impossible as can be.  To dismiss the impossible is to dismiss yourself.”  And, from his personal experience, he says “One life-form’s gold is another life-form’s tin can.”  His knowledge of the future says, “New technology, on Earth, just means something you will laugh at in five years.  Value the stuff you won’t laugh at in five years.  Like love.  Or a good poem.  Or a song.  Or the sky.”
With pithy wit, he points out, “If there is a sunset, stop and look at it.  Knowledge is finite.  Wonder is infinite.”  With the certainty of knowing humans as only an alien can, he points out, “You are not the most intelligent creature in the universe.  You are not even the most intelligent creature on your planet.  The tonal language in the song of the humpback whale displays more complexity than the entire works of Shakespeare.  It is not a competition.  Well, it is.  But don’t worry about it.”
With the power of seeing the future, he predicts, “One day humans will live on Mars.  But nothing there will be more exciting than a single overcast morning on Earth.”  And, “In a thousand years, if humans survive that long, everything you know will have been disproved.  And replaced by even bigger myths.”
As an author, I love the paradox he explains in number 46 — “The things you don’t need to live — books, art, cinema, wine, and so on — are the things you need to live.”  His perceptive advice in number 66 says “As a black hole forms, it creates an immense gamma-ray burst, blinding whole galaxies with light and destroying millions of worlds.  You could disappear at any second.  This one.  Or this one.  Or this one.  Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.”
If I had to pick only one, I particularly like, “Men are not from Mars.  Women are not from Venus.  Do not fall for categories.  Everyone is everything.  Every ingredient inside a star is inside you, and every personality that ever existed competes in the theater of your mind for the main role.”
Matt Haig makes you glad you are human.

Suellen Zima

Follow the Senior Hummingbird

…as she wanders, wonders, and writes

WHY JOIN GOOGLE +

Google Plus, G+,Google Plus One, Google +, however you want to call it, began as an invitation only social media site and is now open to all. Yes, this means anyone and everyone with a valid email and internet connection can join the site that's grown faster than Facebook and Twitter combined in their first 3 months of business with 20 million sign-ups in just the first month alone (existing social media infrastructure helped of course).

From the Google Plus team; Yes, finally the Google+ Invitations are now out and you can request your invitation immediately. Create Your Free Account.

You might be thinking, Really? Do I need to add yet another social  media thing to my whole routine? The answer is yes, or you really should consider it because if you're serious about building an internet
presence, it's quite possible Google Plus will end up being the one that gives you the most internet visibility over time. The reason is because they're owned by the king of everything online: Google. And even though
Facebook is the current king for social media, Google does so much morethan just social media including being the world's largest search engine by a truly gross margin.

From just a few weeks of regular use on Google Plus, my experience is that this service is my overall favorite social media venue, better than Facebook and Twitter for networking with readers, writers and publishing
people in general (or whatever your field is). Like LinkedIn, it feels more professional while Facebook feels more suited for friends and family. Unlike LinkedIn, Google Plus is much more dynamic, streaming with real time updates-chats-video hangouts and more. Another nice feature is creating individual circles for family, friends, colleagues, the softball gang, whatever you want and streaming (or viewing) those announcements from just the people in that group. Facebook has recently upgraded their own service to copy many of G+'s innovations, but now it means going through lists of hundreds of FB friends and separating them into categories, which is something I don't feel like doing at this point.

I wrote a previous blog post with a bit more detail here but mostly I wanted to remind people who might be feeling reluctant about getting involved with yet another social media site to just do it. This one is really important if you want to continue building an online presence over time.

Other things that are smart to do after joining G+ are to fill out your profile with a good deal of information and some photos of you. Add all of your websites and blog links that point to you
and your books. Also, for bloggers, learn to add the ?rel=author suffix tag just after your G+ user ID and place that on every website or blog that you have listed on your G+ profile page. This way Google will
recognize your profile really belongs to the webmaster of that site. In time it could help you get "verified" as a celebrity or branded person in the eyes of the site, which will help immensely with your following. There's no guarantee they will "verify" you, but it's an easy thing to do in hopes they will.

For any writers, readers and publishing people who might be interesting in connecting with me, please do and I'll add you to my circles. Just click on my photo or this link here – https://profiles.google.com/117850331447734054313?rel=author

(Notice how I used the ?rel=author tag for my G+ link; that's how it should look following your own user ID.) And if you think this is a nifty badge, you can make one easily for your own sites at http://turhan.me/+me/.

You can contact Jason at : jason@thelittleuniverse.com