Writing Magick
A New Series Coming Next Week
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Do you believe in magick (with a K)?
Do you believe you have the power inside your head and heart and hands to influence change through your words?
Do you desire practical strategies and tools you can use to attract your wildest writerly dreams?
In my forthcoming Writing Magick series, I’m offering answers to each of these questions and more.
Writing magick is both a mindset and a method.
It’s a way of believing that words can change lives, even if only your own, and then moving into action to bring forth the best possible results for said words. If you are a spiritual person like me, writing magick can be a gift, a download of insight to flow from concept to creation. As above, so below.
Let’s clear the air on the K, K?
Put simply, magic is hoping something will happen without any effort on your part. It’s entertaining, sleight-of-hand, fool-the-eye stage trickery that leaves one in disbelief.
Magick, with a K, on the other hand, is believing something can happen, activating one’s will, setting an intention, putting forth effort through action, and repeating with persistence until the desired outcome occurs. In simpler terms: it’s manifestation of thought into reality.
Now, even though I’m not a fan of the guy credited with adding the K to the word, it does feel fair to acknowledge him. When researching the etymology of the spelling, magick, Aleister Crowley’s name pops up, staining my screen and leaving a bad taste in my mouth. He was an unsavory dude, to say the least, and in the words of a certain runnin’ fool, that’s all I have to say about that.
K is for Knowledge
My interpretation of that letter K, as the word magick relates to writing, is that it stands for both Knowledge and Knowing. Knowledge acquired through personal means or knowledge bestowed upon one through a spiritual connection. Knowing YOU have everything it takes to attract your desired outcomes. Magick, when demonstrated at the writing desk, is about believing words carry power, and then harnessing that power to achieve goals.
In my upcoming Writing Magick series,
we’re going to examine writing magick as both a noun and a verb, and I’ll take you along a journey of becoming a Storytelling Magician, sharing with you strategies to help you:
Initiate writing magick into your practice
Implement an equation to maintain motivation
Craft your writing magick ritual
Battle Resistance (with a capital R) to fortify will
Learn how telling your truth is a spell
Explore how color magick can shape your writing practice
Rise in Resilience (also with a capital R) to overcome distractions
Uncover ways the tarot can shape your inner Storytelling Magician
If any of this sounds interesting to you, please consider subscribing to my Haint Blue Creative® blog here on Substack, where everything I publish is free. I’m helping fiction writers sharpen their storytelling skills using the tarot and providing readers with books that haunt the heart.
Does magick play a role in your writing practice?
Share in a comment! I’d love to know more about your experience.
In case you missed it...
In your quest for writing magick, here are a few previously published articles that might be of interest.
The Hermit’s Wisdom for Writers
6 Priorities for Becoming a Better Storyteller
About Mandy
Amanda "Mandy" Hughes is an author and instructional designer who uses the tarot to inspire storytelling. Her book Mystic Storyteller: A Writer’s Guide to Using the Tarot for Creative Inspiration and companion tarot deck are helping her peers do exactly that. She also writes fiction under pen name A. Lee Hughes. Mandy lives in Georgia with her husband and four sons, two of whom are furrier than the others (but not by much). Visit her website at www.haintbluecreative.com and find her on Substack @HaintBlueCreative.
