The heroine always needed to be rescued by the new man
I’m a ghost writer. I don’t write in my genre and it’s likely nothing you’ve ever read. I’m not into reading fiction, but… fiction and role playing as teaching tools for the uplifting of humanity? I can dig it. When I was a teen, I liked to read suspense stories. I especially liked gothic novels where the heroine inevitably went to live on some romantic far coast with an elderly aunt, meets a mysterious stranger who saves her from danger, and they ride off into the sunset happily ever after. That was a nice recurring theme, however it didn’t mirror how I saw real life playing out. Around me, the women I saw were working hard while not all the husbands worked. I saw women being the ones who got things done and none that I grew up around needed rescuing. I had girlfriends who were waiting for their prince to come along to support them when they left daddy’s house. No prince for me. I saw how that prince thang had been working out. I got a job when I was 16, learned the legal age to leave home and did so the minute I was 17 and self supporting.
That was about the time I stopped reading fiction and discovered the truth is so much more fascinating. I understand the value of fiction in the form of allegory, analogy and metaphor as teaching tools. As a ghostwriter, I work with several authors in genres of writing that are not my own. For that purpose it’s easy to meditate on the idea of “who” is writing “my” part and what do they have to say? I am sometimes surprised by the answer. And that’s what I get to do for each project that is not written in my voice. I go into meditation and bring myself into the character’s mindset and see what the Universe unfolds to me.
So, fiction and role playing for the uplifting of humanity? I know it absolutely as a fact. When I work out a concept in my head, my experience is that my clarified thought is added to that thoughtform bank in the sky, the global mental plane, the akashic record, call it what you will. That place where everything that ever was is recorded, that we all have access to, that anyone can tune into. That is what I tune into when I am working on projects, most of which are not in my preferred genre. That is how the character or information is pulled out and written into existence. The discovery process is an exciting one for me as well as my client and the ultimate reader.
I’m a big believer in role playing as a healing modality for personal growth and spirituality. I know the importance of focus and staying in character in order to attract the most authentic experience. I also know the value of having the choice at each distraction to strengthen my focus by being unwavering.
An ongoing challenge and fun can be staying in character for the duration of a project despite “real life” rearing its head every few hours. I may be 4-5 hours into some furturistic otherworldy mischief when I get a text from my mate about going to Starbucks or about the possum that just walked across the yard. That’s my opportunity to see how well I can maintain focus despite delightful distraction. And when I make it fun, all else falls into place.