Harness Your Creative Cycle When Writing a Book

There is a natural ebb and flow to our moods throughout the day, throughout the weeks, months and years. If you work with those moods, you can get an immense amount accomplished on writing your book. But if you fight the natural cycles, you’ll end up frustrated and getting little accomplished.

I compare it to the seasons. If you try to grow green beans in the winter, you’re going to waste your time and your seeds. But if you plant them in spring, you’ll see swift growth and be producing beans by summer.

creative cycleLearning to recognize and work with your natural creative cycle instead of against it can save you time, energy and help you make major progress on writing your book in a small amount of time.

One of the phases of the creative cycle is “organization.” In this phase of the process, you may feel compelled to clean your desk, wash dishes, file paperwork or flesh out the outline for your book.

While your body and conscious mind are busy organizing, your subconscious creative mind is really going to work in the background. This is why some of your best ideas come while washing dishes or folding laundry! It’s like the famous mystery author, Agatha Christie, said about book writing, “The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.”

To learn more about working with your creative cycle and making the most of it, hop in on my Create a WOW Book Program

Agatha Christie on book writing

About Marnie Pehrson Kuhns

Marnie Pehrson Kuhns is a Certified SimplyAlign Practitioner™ who uses music and creativity to mentor you past barriers, fears and doubts to discover, create, align with, and deliver your soul’s song (the mission, message or purpose you are on this earth to live). Marnie is a best-selling author with 31 fiction and nonfiction titles. If you'd like Marnie and her husband Dave to work with you personally on Your Great Reinvention, get a FREE 20-minute strategy session with Marnie here.