The Solipsistic Guide To Blogging

Solipsism is a fun exercise to play with. The simplest explanation being that the only part of life that we can verify is our own existence. And by extension the external world and all other life as we encounter it may only exist in our perception, or simply put, delusions.

Using a solipsistic approach as a tool for empathy could be a great mechanism for expanding ones ability in bringing home the projections we make to feel/understand those in our target audience.

Although on the surface many would ask how one could have empathy for others if we believe we are all that exists. I would put forth the argument that this makes empathy easier by expanding ones perception to encompass all of our other selves that we pretend is something else.

See, isn't this already getting fun. :)

Law of Attraction and Solipsism.

Experimenting with an open mind into the law of attraction will often find there are many seeming coincidences that begins manifesting once we alter our patterns for testing.

So much that one begins questioning if it is a rule and not coincidence as the odds seem stacked against so many recurrences.

One such practice we observe this in is in our associations. If we stick with the same crowd (remember, the crowd is being generated by us using solipsism), we get the same results.

Change the crowd to one of a different mindset and very often the results will change as well.

This raises the question of what really changed?

If we were to use Occam’s Razor as a key to understanding, it would suggest that the ways of the new crowd were rubbing off on us.

Using my own experimentation when I was involved in self publishing I find myself dissatisfied with such a simplistic answer.

There was one person in a private writers group I was invited into that was obsessed with law of attraction.

I’ll admit I thought he was full of you know what at first.

But watching his growth my first couple of months compared to the rest of the group I decided despite not believing in it personally to begin mimicking his suggestions.

And without believing them, I began to see an exponential growth that even in hindsight makes no rational sense.

From outrageous price points I put on my work, to the keyword research everything fell into place and I quickly became the second highest royalty earning writer of the group.

Despite being the worst writer as far as mechanics in that group.

So how did one whose mechanics were horrible start becoming a writer who made it? Whose writing was so great that even grammar Nazis would read my stories and buy more, while begging me to please hire an editor in the four and five star reviews they were leaving me?

Commanding outrageous prices that defied reason one could get.

The others were all part of the same group, were all better writers etc.

Yet they never jumped on that law of attraction bandwagon, and focused solely on the mechanics and not the underlying energy. And the mechanics said no one would pay the high prices for our work. No one else was commanding anywhere near those prices.

I looked at it differently. I've always been of a mind if someone else can do it, then I can too. There isn't anything special about the way others put their pants on, and using a solipsistic view this suddenly becomes more rational. Law of attraction becomes much more rational.

When we embrace different aspects of ourselves, different levels of vibration, we attract our other selves to vibrate with us.

The old water seeks its own level scenario.

So now the question for bloggers (and really anyone).

How do we use this to our advantage as writers?

Now we are going to meander a bit more into tricks of perception.

The most notable in my hierarchy of credible references would be from Carl Jung.

He referred to this next part that was a huge part of my repertoire as tapping into what he called the Collective UnConscious.

This is really the secret behind how a hack such as myself could weave tales that others loved reading.

I channeled my writing using the solipsistic approach.

Not purposely mind you. But in hindsight that is surely the best way to describe it.

I found when weaving my stories I would get in a zone of sorts and the story would write itself.

They got much better once I began using an outline as well, to control the tempo of the story. But once I got to the actual writing it was if I was transported into being the characters in my stories. My ability to write only slowed by my typing speed.

No writers block.

None.

Sure, there were many times I didn’t feel the writing and would have to force myself to sit down and get started.

Then the zone would hit, and from somewhere not accessible a moment before when I didn’t want to write, the story was like it was already there, waiting for me to type it out.

I know, hocus pocus, hah hah.

But it is like I was and can be a conduit for something larger than myself once I get going.

And you can too!

I invite all of you reading this to test this out for yourselves.

Write out a little outline, sit down and just begin typing. Don’t overthink it and allow your fingers to just type away at what comes to mind in relation to your outline.

Do this exercise for several hours throughout the week. Don’t fight it, just type whatever is coming to you. Then assess the results, and I suspect you’ll likely be surprised at how interesting and entertaining what you produce is.

If you will use this exercise I’m certain you will find over time entering this zone I think of as we are all one will become second nature to you, and you will write creative masterpieces that will fly from your fingers.

Writing that will engage your readers (how could it not, they are extensions of you hah hah) and leave them wanting more.

Thanks for reading this playful advocacy for using a solipsistic approach to your writing. Write from your essence and the essence of those reading will find their way home.

Thanks so much for reading, and any comments on this abstract exercise are welcomed.

In next weeks playful post we will take a look at how

Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem proves that figures don't lie, but liars know how to figure. And how bloggers can use this to their advantage to captivate folks who like to figure.