Table of Contents

 I keep a Table for Contents updated monthly for my other sites. After having written 52 articles at PaulineEvanosky.com I believe it's time to start one for this site too.

May 2026

Where Do Ideas Come From? - 5/5/26
Bad Days and How To Make Them Better - 5/7/26
Your Dream - Take Aim - 5/12/26
I Don't Wear Underwear - 5/14/26
Pondering A Little Bit With Seth - 5/19/26
Your Intentions Are Important - 5/21/26
Some Thoughts On Writing - 5/26/26
Finding Time to Write - 5/28/26

April 2026 
A Writerly Exercise - 4/2/26
When Was It Ever Supposed to be Simple? - 4/7/26
Is There a Secret? - 4/9/26
Words! What Fun! - 4/14/26
Just A Different Sort of Life Lesson - 4/23/26
What Do You Do When You Get Bored? - 4/28/26
Dreams - 4/30/26

March 2026 
The Thing About Writing - 3/17/26
Thinking About Writing - 3/19/26
A Query Into Donation Buttons - 3/24/26
Sometimes I Worry About Repeating Myself - 3/26/26
How I Keep Track Of My Writing - 3/31/26

February 2026 
The Solution: Patience, and Getting Things Done - 2/10/26

January 2026 
Resolutions - 1/2/26
The Truth - 1/6/26
About Comments - 1/8/26
The Choices We Make - 1/13/26
Friends and Deliberate Actions - 1/20/26
Write On! - 1/22/26
What I Am Doing and What's On My Mind - 1/27/26

December 2025 
The Surprising Path to Serenity - 12/4/25
When Millie Drools - 12/9/25
What If - About Character Development - 12/11/25
Dreams, Characters in Spirit, and Writing - 12/16/25
Courage - 12/18/25
Life-Lessons Are Sometimes Tough - 12/23/25
A Writing Exercise While Listening to Theta Waves - 12/25/25
A New Book Project - 12/30/25

November 2025 
About Writing and Keeping a Schedule - 11/4/25
Feeling Happier in Difficult Times - 11/6/25
Gloria - a Character Study - 11/11/25
My Way - Because I have to - 11/13/25
Proofing is Important - 11/18/25
Stamina in Writing - 11/20/25
Free Books - 11/25/25
I Don't Believe in That - 11/27/25

October 2025 - My First Month
Let's Go! - 10/11/25
Taking Stock and Accountability - 10/21/25
Spinning Words - 10/23/25
Thinking of Fiction - 10/25/25
Who Are You? And, What do You Want? - 10/28/25
How a Psychic Writes Fiction - 10/30/25

Finding Time to Write

 I cannot emphasize enough the need for a writer to create a regular writing habit. It’s like scheduling “Me Time” in the midst of a busy schedule. I’m just assuming you are busy. Most people are.

You’ve got what you have to do during the day, like a job or family life. You’ve got neighbors, relatives, and your social stuff. Whatever your particular schedule is, you work with that.

The idea is that you squeeze in some time for writing.

You’ve got a couple of choices where you can find the time you want. It’s going to end up being your sleeping time or whatever leisure activities you do. With me, it was mostly sleeping. I was young enough in those days to give it up. Now? I can take a nap if I need it.

For me, my energy is best in the morning and early afternoon. After that, I’m going to need a break, either a nap, something to watch on television, or a book. I’ve also got things I like to study, like my Spanish lessons. I asked AI to help me translate one of my articles, and I’m reading it sentence by sentence.

Right now, I am retired, so it’s easy enough to just start writing when I get up. I write as long as I want, take a break, and sometimes return to my keyboard in the evening. I have to watch the time because sometimes I spend too much time at night writing, and then I don’t sleep well, or at least not right away.

Back when I was working, I would get up a couple of hours earlier than I normally did in the morning and use that time to write. No more lying in bed for me, at least, not much.

If I’m not feeling well, or if I’ve got a sore neck as I do now, I’m being more careful about how long I spend writing. I’m also being careful about stretching and moving. Officially? This is Day 6 of my bad neck. It’s getting better. It was so bad in the beginning that I actually experienced some nausea. I looked it up, and Google told me that it was my vagus nerve, a long cranial nerve, being affected by my neck pain. Who knew?

Anyway, if you allow your life to drift along anyway it wants to, you will not find time to write. You have to do that deliberately. Ask me how I know? Because I’ve been there.

Best of luck out there. I know you have a story. I’m psychic. I know. And thanks for reading. I’ve listed some of the places I am on the internet.

🌺 Pauline Evanosky

🌺My Links:

Talking To Spirit — my website since 2001
Pauline Evanosky on Medium
Talking To Spirit on Substack

Pauline on Vocal.Media

Pauline Evanosky — my author’s website

My Table of Contents for Medium — Updated Monthly
My Table of Contents for Substack — Also Updated Monthly

Facebook for shorter pieces

Resources for psychic development from my website, TalkingtoSpirit.com

 

Some Thoughts on Writing

 

I’m like a marathon runner who runs a lot. Except, I don’t run. I write. I’ve been in training for the last decade or so. It started years ago when I signed up for a NaNoWriMo.org November writing challenge. The idea was to write 50,000 words on a book for a month. Since those days of sprint writing, I have grown to love that one-month challenge. Then, it began to occur to me that I really didn’t need to wait for November to roll around to do my heavy-lifting on the writing front, and I could do it whenever I wanted.

Then, I retired and found I had a lot of time on my hands, which had been a dream of mine for years. Time that I could spend writing. Gone were the days when I’d be at work, and it would occur to me that something or other was interesting, and the urge to write about it was there. Something I could not indulge in at the time, because, duh, I was working.

I keep a notebook handy in the living room if something occurs to me there. My memory isn’t what it used to be. It’s like going to the bathroom these days. You get the urge? Safer to move right then. No waiting around like you’ve got all the time in the world anymore. Come to think of it, I don’t have a handy notebook in the bathroom. Note to self: Fix that.

I’ve probably mentioned it before, but I set up this Excel Spreadsheet to track my writing every day. I identify whatever it was I was working on and then count the words. I have not gone so far as to count the time because sometimes a piece will go past a day’s work. I suppose I could, but the 24 hours I get every day are enough. Also, my writing isn’t always done at the same speed. Sometimes I almost can’t keep up, and other times, it can be like a slowly dripping faucet.

I have been tossing around an idea, though, and that is to finish a piece of writing that day. Unfortunately, I’ve got something on my desktop from a few days ago. I really don’t know how long ago it was because I didn’t date it, but I should take care of it today. I record the word count when I finish it. Anyway, like any new habit, I’ll need to allow it time to start working. Properly.

The Daily Tracker: #1: Words per article, #2: Words per day, #3: Accumulated Words per Month

Another thing I started about a month ago was to record my word output every week, having it stretch from Sunday to Saturday. I was really surprised to see that I am nowhere near being consistent. I’ve got productive weeks, and I’ve got not-so-productive weeks. I was surprised. What makes me happy is to have 3,000 words a day, which is likely two articles. What makes me pleased as punch is to have 5,000 words a day and three or more articles.

Not everything I do is a publishable article for one of the writing platforms I write on. I count my journal work, my dream journal (when I have something to record), my daily Do-Good File, where I try to think of something uplifting or motivating, which can sometimes lead to an article. That writing is just for me.

I don’t know any other writer who writes as I do. All I can say is that it works for me.

I do remember back when I was working, the only time I had to write was before and after work and on the weekends. Of course, all manner of everyday life was in there too, so I had to grab my moments. I began a practice of waking up early and using that time. I was fresh and had a lot of writing energy at that time of day. In fact, this morning I awakened at 5 am and got up only to go back to bed a couple of hours later. I thought I could always have a nap later if I wanted one.

Also, it’s not like I am forcing myself to do something I don’t want to do. I love to write. I’m at a stage where a blank computer screen is a welcome sight, not something to be afraid of. That took me years to sort out.

And, the best of all? Here are the monthly totals going back a ways:

I'm retired now, so you'd think I could sit here all day and write. But that is bad practice. Not only is your butt sore, but you can get a crick in your neck.

Thanks for reading. When I get a book published, I'll let you know where to go to get it.

🌺 Pauline Evanosky

🌺My Links:

Talking To Spirit — my website since 2001
Pauline Evanosky on Medium
Talking To Spirit on Substack

Pauline on Vocal.Media

Pauline Evanosky — my author’s website

My Table of Contents for Medium — Updated Monthly
My Table of Contents for Substack — Also Updated Monthly

Facebook for shorter pieces

Resources for psychic development from my website, TalkingtoSpirit.com

 

Your Intentions Are Important

 

Sometimes you have to look away to get a better understanding of something. It could be anything, really. Your writing or your attitude at work maybe.

Say, you’ve been bummed out lately. Work is not challenging. You try to apply yourself, but the stuff you do is routine, and you are really getting sick of it. In fact, a couple of people hired after you were promoted ahead of you. What’s with that? That doesn’t seem fair.

Well, I suppose you could go ask your supervisor why you got passed over. I’ve never had the guts to do that. What I have done in the past is to either take a closer look at what’s going on in the office that could be streamlined. Or sometimes you can see where somebody could use some help. So, you help out. Somebody is going to notice, especially if you get called back to help again, either with the same person or because they said something, you might find yourself getting talked about. If they are saying good things, well, that can be helpful.

I know they say that nobody is indispensable, but people do notice if you can help out.

I have also worked at places where your help is not welcome. That’s okay too. Those are the games that people play. If you don’t want to be involved with their drama, don’t get involved.

I think when we challenge ourselves, it is beneficial in many ways. There is a spill over into other areas of interest.

Like with writing. You’d think that not doing anything for a good ten or fifteen minutes before you go to bed wouldn’t help with your writing. However, I’m betting that it might. For one thing, you’d be doing something to help with your sleep. If you turn off the murder mystery movie you’ve been watching and then go straight to bed, you’ve got to figure that the last thing you did will have some sort of effect on how well you sleep that night.

I know I sometimes crave deep, solid sleep. Much of the time, I’ll awaken in the middle of the night or from a dream and not be able to get back to sleep. I have a rule that if I am still tossing and turning an hour later, I will just get up. And write.

But the writing I do after a good night’s sleep is something that pleases me. Perhaps I should get myself a book that is restful. A balm to my sleep. Not an action-packed thriller. Something sweet. I’ll work on that this morning. I’ll add a little postscript to let you know what I’ll be reading tonight.

Ah. I found it. Confessions of a Prayer Slacker by Diane Moody. Today, it is free. A Kindle read I found in today’s offering from Weberbooks.com. It moved me. I think it’s going to be a good book.

I like to describe myself as a spiritual person. I grew up with Catholicism, but am interested in the holiness of life, no matter what religion is involved. So, yes, I am a Christian, but I have other beliefs as well. I talk to Spirit all the time. Except I have a need for prayer in my life, too. I think I might have found some good reading material with Diane’s book.

Thanks for reading.

🌺 Pauline Evanosky

🌺My Links:

Talking To Spirit — my website since 2001
Pauline Evanosky on Medium
Talking To Spirit on Substack

Pauline on Vocal.Media

Pauline Evanosky — my author’s website

My Table of Contents for Medium — Updated Monthly
My Table of Contents for Substack — Also Updated Monthly

Facebook for shorter pieces

Resources for psychic development from my website, TalkingtoSpirit.com

Pondering A Little Bit with Seth

They say confession is good for the soul. I would agree, but I would also say confession is between you and your journal. Or God. Other people should not be involved. As I’m a Catholic, I am supposed to go to confession on a more or less regular basis. I believe it’s been about 43 years, give or take. And, no, I don’t believe I’m going to hell. But if it makes you right with God, then go ahead.

The thing is, it takes a really understanding priest (and I have met some) who would understand me and that what I do is not sinning, in any way, shape, or form. I just talk to dead guys.

Actually, since I’m a writer, I ought to write some books where the heroine or hero is perceived as a total loser. Then, they redeem themselves in the eyes of their accusers…. in some way, and all is right in their world. Could I squeeze 80,000 words out of something like that? I could try. Or could something like that turn into a trilogy? Best to keep it at one book and then, if it looks like it wants to be more, make that decision later rather than earlier.

What about adventures? You’d need a few to pepper into the story.

It sounds like you are cooking.

Well, I am hungry, and I do like food. So, pepper is a good word.

If you say so.

I have to say something to my readers. If you are reading my stuff for the first time, you might need to know that I’m talking to my Spirit Guide, Seth, right now. I always put whatever he says in bold italics.

What about if we co-wrote something?

Really?

Just for fun. Just to see what would happen. If you don’t like it, we can abandon the project. All of your projects are so determined, so terribly important. This would be for fun. Do you know how funny you look when you purse your lips and frown while I am talking?

Yes, folks, that’s me right now. Okay, so nothing is hanging in the balance on this working out well. If I don’t like it, then we don’t publish it.

Yes. If this is how you wish to proceed, you can count me in.

I guess if you are going to collaborate with somebody, you could write something, and then the other person could write the next chapter. 

I Don’t Wear Underwear

Catchy title? I thought so. Actually, it’s the truth. I am retired, and one of the special joys of retirement is that you don’t have to get dressed if you don’t want to. I mean, why bother? If I was going out somewhere, of course I would get dressed, but getting dressed is a pain in the ass if you ask me.

For one thing, it saves time. I can roll out of bed any time I want to and start my writing day. I take lots of breaks, but then, as an elderly person, I sort of need them. Another thing to look forward to in retirement is being able to take naps. So, not getting dressed in the morning just means you don’t have to get undressed for a nap at 2:30 pm. Which is generally when I take a nap if I’m going to take one. I don’t every day, but it is nice to be able to.

Also, I’m fat. Being fat means clothes can be uncomfortable even if they do fit.

Besides, Jane Austen didn't wear drawers. Women didn't in those days. Victor Hugo liked to write in the buff. So did Benjamin Franklin. Earnest Hemingway didn't wear anything at all. 

I’ve been thinking about including a podcast or two somewhere. Many writing platforms, including YouTube, offer support for podcasts or vlogs. So, if it were a video, I’d need to be sure I’m okay from the waist up. Oh, I just had an idea. Don’t they make aprons that have clothes printed on them? Or my other thought was to crochet up something free-form that I could just put over the top of my robe.

It all sounds so silly. I used to get dressed every day I was working. In fact, at the last place I worked (in my retirement), the lady was so strange that she up and frog-marched me home one day because she didn’t like what I was wearing. Thank God I don’t work for her anymore. Another story, but I learned all I ever wanted to know about narcissistic behavior from her.

Now, was I being snide to mention an unpleasant person here? I think not. We can learn great things from everything we do. I even wrote an article on Substack about what I learned from playing solitaire. You can see it here. Do me a favor: if you do go over there, read my story and subscribe. Right now, everything is free, though you could, if you wanted to, cough up something small either as a one-time thing or a monthly donation, which I would appreciate. Who knows when Social Security is going to give up the ghost, and I’ll need to go out, get dressed, and find a job.

Actually, I had a brother who, as a teenager, stopped wearing underwear. He told me that when something got caught up in his zipper, he decided that wasn’t the best idea after all. Not sure what got caught. He never did tell me. I was laughing so hard, he likely couldn’t get another word in.

Michael is on my mind this morning. He featured in the Solitaire article, too.

Thanks for reading. If you are a writer, go write something today.

🌺 Pauline Evanosky

 🌺My Links:

Talking To Spirit — my website since 2001
Pauline Evanosky on Medium
Talking To Spirit on Substack

Pauline Evanosky — my author’s website

My Table of Contents for Medium — Updated Monthly
My Table of Contents for Substack — Also Updated Monthly

Facebook for shorter pieces

References I recommend on your path to more psychic awareness from TalkingtoSpirit.com

 

 

 

 

Your Dream - Take Aim

 

I believe everybody has a dream. I’m not talking about the dreams we have when we are sleeping. I’m talking about the dreams we have when we are awake.

I’ve had lots of dreams since I was a child. Some of those dreams happened for me. Most did not. Many of them changed as the years went by. Also, I’ve never met a person who only ever had one dream. Dreams are a dime a dozen, but dreams mean more to you than they ever will to anyone else.

Does that mean when you get old enough, it is time to set aside your dreams? I think not. Perhaps you think, as a grown-up, that having a dream is unrealistic. Maybe you’ve got a full-time job that does not leave you with enough time for a dream. Maybe you have a family and all the obligations there just don’t leave time for a dream. I know about this. It happened to me. If it happened to me, I’m betting it’s happened to you, too.

So, what’s to do about it?

Dream away. Having dreams is where a future is to be found.  Your dream is not going to be magically handed to you on a silver platter. You’ve got to do something to make it possible.

Okay, let’s take one of my dreams. I dreamed for years of being a writer. I thought that someday I would write something. I would write a book. I told people this dream of mine until, one day, I realized I must be boring people. I’d been saying it for years. I’d actually run out of people to tell. I had a horror of boring people. I was also shy, so if I didn’t tell them I had a dream, what was I going to do? Talk about the weather? No.

I would write.

It happened when I was again looking for work, and once again I found a job in an office. I’d had so many jobs like that. I could see my life passing before my eyes as a secretary in a job. Not a career. In another job. Doing things for other people. I vowed that day to begin writing. As it happened, three years later, I finished writing a novel. That it has been under the bed all these years, unpublished, is not a loss. Writing that book proved to me that I was a writer. It began the dream.

Am I a famous writer? No. Am I a good writer? Sometimes. Am I ever going to make a living at writing? The jury is out on that one. Why do I continue? Because it is all my dream.

Dreams are hope springing up. Demanding a place. I will do this.

Think of your dream as a target. The outermost ring is you having the dream. It is an ethereal energy, a substance that is not yet formed. It is a dream.

The next ring in is where you begin to give the dream substance. This is where, if you are a writer, you begin a daily practice of writing. This is the ring where you read more than you already do. This is the ring where you find other writers and read their work, where you commiserate with each other, and where you share experiences. This is your “right company”.

The next ring is where you challenge yourself to write one article each week for a publication. If it is your own place on Substack, Medium, or even Facebook, it is where you publish your writing. To do this, you confront all sorts of demons you have about writing. Your fear. Your sense of inadequacy. Where you learn to brave criticism and comments. This is you showing up.

However many rings you need to go through to hit the middle of the target is up to you. Some people will earn accolades and awards and become best-selling authors the first time they write something. It happens, but it happens so rarely that you should discount it out of hand.

What you have is different. You have perseverance. You have determination. You will not let go of your dream.

As time goes on, you continue to write. As you set up challenges for yourself, you will learn how to be a writer.

Until one day, you are on the target. You have hit the middle, the bulls-eye. You are the person people turn to when they need help with whatever it is that you are an expert in.

As a writer, I, more than anyone else, am the most important person to believe in me. Do yourself a favor and believe in yourself.

Thanks for reading. If you’d like, check out some of the other places I write below.

 

🌺 Pauline Evanosky

 🌺My Links:

Talking To Spirit — my website since 2001
Pauline Evanosky on Medium
Talking To Spirit on Substack

Pauline on Vocal.Media

Pauline Evanosky — my author’s website

My Table of Contents for Medium — Updated Monthly
My Table of Contents for Substack — Also Updated Monthly

Facebook for shorter pieces

References I recommend on your path to more psychic awareness from TalkingtoSpirit.com

 

Bad Days and How to Make Them Better

 

When you know the day is going to be bad, is there a way you can change any of it?

I had the thought as I was looking through the books being offered at low and deeply discounted prices on Weberbooks.com this morning. The book in question is: Ship of Dreams by Donna Jones Alward. Today it is 99¢, and I bought it. The link, when you read this, will likely have taken it back to its normal price. However, that said, in the blurb, it talked about how skillfully the author was able to create a novel of what I can only think of as hope, as love and friendship are involved in the situation of the Titanic going down.

Hence, my question. Can you change a bad day into a better day?

It is difficult, I think, once you are seated and on the rollercoaster, to jerk yourself into awareness and change. Generally, once you’re belted in and the ride has started, you are locked into a hair-raising ride. I wouldn’t really know. I’ve been frightened of rollercoasters all my life, and to my knowledge, I have never been on one. I did once get stuck on a Ferris wheel at the top. That was not pleasant.

1. Take a deep breath and see what happens.
2. Think of something you know that will be happening in the future that you can concentrate on. I do this with dental appointments.
3. Do something to interrupt the proceedings, whatever they are, to break the cyclical spiral down. Like, open up your computer and write about the situation with a view towards turning it into a horror short story. There is also an appropriate time for this, too. I wouldn’t do it at a GYN appointment. Plus, if you laugh with all those steel gizmos stuck up your whatzit who knows what could happen?
4. Be brave and endure the proceedings, knowing they won’t last forever.
5. Say something affirmative so you can emerge whole and complete. When I was raped, I thought over and over, “I’m still me. I’m still me. I’m still me.” That actually helped.
6. Decide that the next day will be your other birthday. We instituted a custom in our house where my husband and I could each have a second birthday each year. I actually had one day before yesterday. You can also buy a present for yourself and for your partner/spouse if you want to. It’s just a fun day out of nowhere. Our rule is that this second birthday is never the same day as your real birthday. You get to pick the day out of the blue, so it doesn’t have to be the same date every year. You don’t even have to give any notice. That’s what I did the other day. I just said to my husband, “Today is my birthday.”
7. Call your mother if she is still alive and tell her about it. If you are a psychic, like I am, you can still talk to her if she has passed on. Check the links at my other website, Talking to Spirit, for further reading about becoming a psychic if you are interested in talking to dead people.

Those are just a few things that came to mind. Now that I’m thinking about it, I suppose you could cobble together a spell. I don’t know anything about those things. I’ve always had a fear of negative blowback or what people sometimes call Karma.

For that matter, the writing of it won’t let go of me. You could start with a short story with a view toward what you’ve learned that is positive and life affirming, even though the experience itself was negative. Once you have that written, if it still won’t lie still, you could double it in length. If it still won’t settle down, write a book. There, that should put it to rest. Plus, you’ve got the benefit of having gotten a book out of it.

Well, out of one incident, how do you get a book?

You are a writer. The lady who wrote the book I was talking about above did it. I’ll have to see what she has to say and see if I could do something similar.

Remember, as a writer, everything that happens to you in your lifetime is grist for the mill. Everything. Even the bad stuff. So, that is turning the bad stuff into good stuff, right?

Thanks for sticking with me and reading to the end. Follow along and make me a happy camper today.

🌺 Pauline Evanosky

 🌺My Links:

Talking To Spirit — my website since 2001
Pauline Evanosky on Medium
Talking To Spirit on Substack

Pauline Evanosky — my author’s website

My Table of Contents for Medium — Updated Monthly
My Table of Contents for Substack — Also Updated Monthly

Facebook for shorter pieces

References I recommend on your path to more psychic awareness from TalkingtoSpirit.com

 

Where Do Ideas Come From?

 

The other day, I had one of those lovely, long dreams where I was teaching. Or, rather, I was speaking to a group of young people. They were students in my dream, older ones. Some of them might have been in college, for all I knew. But they asked me, or rather their teacher did, if I might speak to them about writing.

The first question lobbed my way was how I came up with my ideas.

I told them that I didn’t go looking for ideas; the ideas just came to me.

You can’t force that kind of stuff.

One of my routines is to reach for some calm. I don’t know if you do something like this, but it involves a tiny bit of ceremony. Mine isn’t flamboyant or involves sweating up a storm walking in the morning. No, mine is a cup of coffee, though I only do that one in the morning. It mostly hinges on reaching for stillness, for emptiness. I seek stillness, calm, peace. I try to become one who listens. I wait for an idea. I pretend I am ready.

Sometimes, it works right then. Other times, being in that small state of readiness is enough.

Mostly, what I write these days on all the different platforms where I write is of the moment. Whatever occurs to me. Now, if I were working on a book, that would be a different matter. If you had a writing assignment, then the focus of your writing would involve whatever you’d been asked to write about.

My main theme is empowering people to reach for their dreams. I want to be someone who motivates others. I want to spread happiness, kindness, and sunshine wherever it is needed.

One of the things I want to bring awareness to is a person’s psychic senses. I call it woo-woo, but it’s really just you using your other senses to a different level.

Sometimes, I even picture the people who might be reading what I write, but mostly, as in the dream, it involves a group of people who are interested.

You’ve got to pretend this stuff. Most of us don’t get paid for the writing we do. All that builds slowly as you develop your craft. I guess, mostly, I want to encourage others to read and write. It would be nice to know others who do that. I missed that growing up. I lived in too many places, and well, people just didn’t like to do that. We did for school assignments, but I never really met anybody who just liked to read and write for the sheer joy of it. Wait, no, that isn’t right. My mother was a reader. Maybe that’s where it comes from. That would make sense.

The way I write, I wait for it to come. I have to put dread and worry out of my way. I have faith that something is going to occur to me that is going to be worth writing about.

Stephen King was once asked where his ideas came from. I wondered too. In those days, I was a wanna be writer, and I just didn’t have a clue. He said he walks out into the desert and walks. As he walks, he also looks around, and something will appear to be sticking up out of the sand. He said he would dig it up. I’ve thought about that for years. I believe he said the desert because that is the clear place in his mind that he ventures into. It makes sense. Something sticks up to catch your attention. It’s sort of what happens with me.

If you’d like to learn more about what Stephen King thinks about writing, buy a copy of his book On Writing.

Another thing that happens to me often is while I am reading what others write, both in books and more so, on the internet. They will be talking about something, and my brain starts pinging. It’s like popcorn popping. I can’t control it. I have to move to a blank piece of paper and start writing. I am not stealing their idea. I’m reacting to it.

I suppose, if you think about it, we are all playing an instrument in an orchestra. Together we can make a big, beautiful noise.

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Thanks for reading. I’ve listed a bunch of other places where I write online below.

🌺 Pauline Evanosky

 🌺My Links:

Talking To Spirit — my website since 2001
Pauline Evanosky on Medium
Talking To Spirit on Substack

Pauline Evanosky — my author’s website

My Table of Contents for Medium — Updated Monthly
My Table of Contents for Substack — Also Updated Monthly

Facebook for shorter pieces

References I recommend on your path to more psychic awareness from TalkingtoSpirit.com