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We have come to the end of this series on using the Law of Attraction in your writing life. The final lessons is simply this:
The most powerful LOA secret is to act as if you are already the writer you dream of being.
Embody the writer identity you want today: write regularly, submit your work, and treat yourself as a published author in mindset. LOA responds when you live as your future self. Perfectionism is irrelevant and unattainable, but growth happens in the process. It’s that process that will propel you toward your goals.
Try This: Set a small “writer identity” challenge: write 500 words today, or query one agent. Feel your energy and the energy around you change as you step fully into that role.
You are already the writer you aspire to be. LOA is a tool that helps you step fully into that reality.
Wishing you the best on your writing journey. Feel free to share you thoughts in the comments.
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Many authors credit visualization, affirmations, and mindset for their success. They didn’t just dream — they aligned their actions with their beliefs.
Examples: Stephen King impaled all of his rejection letters on an iron nail he drove into a wall, which soon became an iron spike. This visual motivated him to keep going and made him into the prolific best-selling author he is today.
Jim Carrey, actor and comedian famously wrote himself a check for $10 million for “acting services rendered” early in his career, visualizing himself receiving that sum years before it actually happened for his role in Dumb and Dumber.
LOA isn’t wishful thinking; it’s a practice of living in alignment with your goals, but don’t take my word for it.
Try this: Find and research one author whose success story inspires you. Identify the mindset strategies they used and adopt one for your own writing.
It worked for them, it can work for you — with aligned action. Tell us about what you found and how you’re going to use it in your own writing life. Sharing is caring. A rising tide raises all boats…and all that sort of thing. Let’s do this!
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Morning visualization, affirmations, gratitude; writing intention; evening reflection. Consistency builds momentum, but consistency doesn’t have to be grueling. No routine, no matter how well designed, is going to work for you if you don’t do it. It’s important that you tailor any routines to you and your life so they can work for you.
Try This: Design a 10-minute LOA routine 2 min gratitude – example: I’m grateful for the great ideas I get for my stories. 3 min visualization – example: Visualize your perfect writing day. Where, when, and how with details. 5 min affirmations – example: I write good stories worth publishing. Readers love reading my stories.
Remember, these items don’t have to be fancy. The important thing is that they make you feel something that reinforces your resolve and supports your process. They should resonate with you and when they stop resonating, it’s time to lean in and find out why and where your current course is taking you.
Daily LOA primes writing for success. When you practice the steps you can’t fail. Even failure itself is a victory because you’ve learned about what you don’t want. Share your 10-minute LOA routine in the comments. I’d love to hear about it and you could help others who feel stuck.
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Scarcity thinking stunts creativity. Celebrate other writers, see competition as collaboration, trust your voice. Scarcity thinking is fear. It’s also a common advertising tool, triggering scarcity thinking of FOMO (fear of missing out) by using phrases like “limited availability”, “only a limited number of (insert item here) available”. Sometimes it’s actually true. Remember the Law of Attraction, what you think about is what shows up in your world. If you’re thinking about what you’re lacking, what other people have that you don’t, you’ll attract more of that scarcity.
Try This instead: Note one thing you admire in another writer daily.
An abundance mindset sustains joy and attracts opportunities. Focus on what’s going right. Follow that, and watch abundance flow to you. I’d love to hear how this step works for you. Post your experience below. You might help others, too.
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Here’s where the rubber starts meeting the road, so to speak. Where you begin to put together the tools you’ve learned so far to manifest your writerly dreams. As such, I’m going to go into a little more detail than you’ve seen so far. Right-O, let’s start with some exercises. Pick one to work on that makes sense for where you are in with your writing project.
Try This:
1. The Visualization & Embodiment Exercise: “My Launch Day” Purpose: Align emotionally and energetically with the experience of being a published author.
How to do it: Sit somewhere quiet, close your eyes, and take a few deep breaths. Imagine your launch day as vividly as possible: You’re holding your book in your hands. You see readers’ posts online celebrating your release. You smell the fresh pages and feel the excitement in your body.
Anchor that feeling — joy, pride, gratitude — and repeat silently: “This is my reality now. My words are out in the world.”
Write down a few sensory details afterward (“The book felt warm in my hands,” “The bookstore lights were bright and inviting”).
Why it works: Your subconscious mind starts aligning your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors with that version of yourself.
2. Scripting Exercise: “My Book is Out There” Purpose: Use journaling as an energetic pre-order for your publishing success.
How to do it: Write a journal entry as if your publishing dream has already happened.
Example prompts: “I can’t believe I’m holding my finished book — it looks even better than I imagined.” “My publisher emailed to say early reviews are glowing!” “Readers are connecting deeply with my story.”
Add emotion and gratitude throughout — write from the feeling of it being real, not just about it.
Why it works: Writing from the end state sends a clear, emotional signal to the universe of what you’re calling in — and keeps your belief steady.
3. Alignment in Action: “Inspired Submissions” Purpose: Pair belief with tangible, aligned action.
How to do it: Before submitting a query, self-publishing your book, or sharing a sample, center yourself with this intention: “The right opportunities are drawn to my words with ease.”
Visualize your query letter or upload glowing with golden light — imagine it landing exactly where it belongs. Take the action with confidence and release the outcome.
Afterward, write a gratitude statement like: “I’m grateful for every opportunity that moves me closer to publication.”
Why it works: LOA amplifies results when belief meets motion. You’re signaling to the universe that you’re ready and aligned — not waiting.
LOA transforms publishing into inevitable when paired with action. Take one publishing action today with visualization. Use and/or change it up as you move forward. Share in the comments for others who might be stumped. I’d love to hear how this works out for you.
Gratitude is a powerful magnet — what you appreciate multiplies.
Daily gratitude shifts focus from lack to abundance. In writing, this means acknowledging small victories: finishing a paragraph, learning from edits, or submitting a query. Gratitude keeps momentum alive even when the road is long and can help you keep things in perspective when frustration sets in.
Something like:
“I’m grateful I wrote 500 words today.”
“I appreciate the feedback from my critique group.”
“I’m grateful for my writing community.”
“I’m grateful for the creativity I’ve been gifted.”
Try This: Keep a daily gratitude journal just for writing. If you already keep a writing journal, you can incorporate gratitude there. If you don’t, start a new journal to fill with gratitude. What writer would turn down the opportunity to buy yet another notebook? Not me! List 3 things every day that you’re thankful for, no matter how small and take a moment to really feel it. Feel the warm glow that gratitude ignites within you. Notice how it changes your energy. At the end of the year, flip through your gratitude journal and let the positive energy there energize you for the next year. Notice where you may have just been going through the motions and where you can plainly see you were truly and deeply grateful.
Gratitude isn’t passive reflection — it fuels creativity and resilience. Feel free to share some of your gratitude entries in the comments. I’ll bet there are others with similar entries!
Imposter syndrome is every writer’s shadow. Self doubt is always just a thought away. Affirmations shine a light on the path forward. It’s not just woo-woo stuff. Affirmations are more than motivational phrases — they are tools for rewiring your beliefs. Repeating empowering statements primes your subconscious to accept them as truth.
Something like:
“I am a creative channel; stories flow through me effortlessly.”
“Readers are waiting for my words.”
“Opportunities for publication come to me naturally.”
Try this: Write 3 personalized affirmations for yourself. Repeat them each morning and before writing sessions for thirty days. Feel the words as if they are already true and visualize what that would look like in detail. At the end of the thirty days, evaluate how these affirmation landed and whether they were effective. You may have to make adjustments to get the wording just right for you. Remember the universe is waiting for your command so it can bring it to you as fast as possible.
The stories you tell yourself set the stage for the stories you create. The choice is, and always has been, yours. There’s no such thing as “writer’s block” only blockages of flow, which affirmations can help you remove. Share your affirmations in the comments. Maybe you might have the magic spark that helps someone else get into creative flow.
What’s happening in the US is a symptom of a bigger issue. Humans are, for the most part, selfish and warlike beings. Seriously, we are. Here me out.
Until we can figure out how to find the balance between humanitarianism, stewardship of our planet, and fulfillment of our individual dreams we will continue to careen toward ruin. We are fast-approaching the point of no return. I’m not trying to be an alarmist. I believe we can still pull out of the nose dive, but we need to act now and continue acting.
What are we supposed to do, you ask? Let’s break it down. Protests, phone calls, and emails are all well and good. We need to tell our leaders who represent us on a macro level what we will and won’t tolerate and what they should be working on; but we need to do more. Well, here’s some ideas. Let me know if you have more.
Humanitarianism
Be kind and Compassionate to your fellow humans.
One of my friends organizes a collection of hundreds of back-to-school packs for kids in need.
Another helps run a food pantry (one that has not qualification process, requires no ID, and never judges).
Or, maybe your work is on a smaller level like sharing your garden harvest with your neighbors, taking food to the person next door who is recently widowed or recovering from illness or surgery.
Find out which classroom supplies your kid’s’ teacher is short on and donate some.
Donate money to organization that help those in need like Care and Share or your local homeless shelters. Incidentally, food banks can use your money way better than the expired canned goods you just donated.
We should care for each other as we would ourselves. Machiavellian philosophy and practices have no place in the modern world. If we want to survive as a species we need to work together. That’s the way it’s always been. After all, we’re all just walking each other home.
Stewardship Campers rule: Always pack out what you packed in and leave things better than you found them. It applies to little campsites and the entire planet. Think about it. It’s that simple.
Individual Dreams
We all have dreams and aspirations. Our dreams and aspirations are as varied as the humans who people the planet. Joseph Campbell said,
“Follow your bliss. If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be. If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn’t have opened for anyone else.”
Dreams and aspirations are important. Don’t be afraid to manifest yours. Sure, you’ll probably stumble a few times. But there are great people on big stages and tiny ones making a difference in the world every day by living their dreams and doing what they love.
But what about the people out there that are hurting, in need, downtrodden? Those who have no resources?
My friends, I’ve been there. In some ways I’m still there and in some ways I’m not. Here’s the thing, you’ll find that the people in the most need are often the people who are fully willing to share what little they have. But here’s the thing, those hurting, in need, and downtrodden are the very ones we should be supporting. Let’s not let the current US administration and state of the world make us forget what’s really important. Meanwhile, to the rest of the planet, please give us some grace while we fix this stuff.
Danielle LaPorte asks her burning question of the week. What is your relationship to silence? I found this a very intriguing question. As I began to ponder the question I wondered how many uber-busy people out there would even get the question. In a time of e-mail, Facebook, smart phones, electronic tablets, and huge TVs, I began to wonder how many people actually know what real silence is anymore. If I grabbed fifty of my Facebook friends and asked them if they meditated or spent any time in silence on a regular basis, what would I find? I suspect that very few would respond that they do.
For me silence is comforting. The world has become a noisy, dirty, mean, joyous, frenetic, volume on max, cacophony of speedy activity. I guess I’m kind of old fashioned or maybe it’s because I’ve found that my best writing comes to me out of silence. I own an android phone, I have a Facebook account, email, and entertainment system that includes a 47” flat screen TV, as big ‘ol stereo receiver and surround sound, but I spend the majority of my day – quiet. I’m sure that will change once I find a day gig to support me while I’m writing, but for now, I relish each quiet day. I don’t turn on the 47” TV during the day. In fact it is off until my husband gets home from work in the evening. Most days, I don’t even turn on my favorite companion, music. It’s fabulous, but then I’ve always been the kind of person who grabbed a bit of silence whenever I could. Don’t get me wrong though, I also do my fair share of making noise and running around like a madwoman.
Silence is refreshing. Silence is grounding. Silence is soothing. Silence is the place where the infinite, the holy, and I meet. Silence is the place where my angel wraps her wings around me and gives me strength. In silence my spirit rests. In silence I find the beauty of my own spirit. Silence makes no demands and yet its incredible power changes lives.
I appreciate the quiet moments in my life. Not long ago, my son and I sat in the living room, each on our respective computer. Me working on a story and he working on some video editing, I believe. We sat silently working for some time and I deeply appreciated the fact that this person who had been raised with all the modern day distractions our electronic era has to offer, could still sit comfortably in silence with another. He is a mere twenty-one years old and is already wiser in the ways of silence than many other adults I know.
Obviously I think silence is a good thing. I think everyone should get a little bit of it every day. Not necessarily in the form of intentional meditation, but if nothing else, to unplug for a while. In taking a moment to hear yourself, you connect to the divine or higher self. Silence allows us to give our brains a rest from the myriad of stimuli that are thrown at it every other second of the day. I know a few people, myself included, who tend to go outside, take a walk or find a quiet place to sit when a particularly difficult or complicated issue comes up at work. Many times that few moments of silence is all that is needed for the answer to a problem to show itself. Silence is valuable.
Now that I’ve told you mine, what is your relationship to silence? Is it a good thing, or do you have better things to do with your time? Does silence make things you don’t want to think about crop up for you, or is it a comfort?
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