If you’ve heard the term lightworker and are familiar with it, you might see where I got my own term of lightwriter. I write about characters finding empowerment, owning their circumstances, and sometimes just doing the best they can with the hand they’ve been dealt.
Writing can be alchemy… something a lightworker taught me. I love to write, so hard as it can be to “find my muse” in the dark times, I try to write the light in. When a situation gets me down, I write about it to lift my energy and the vibration of the situation. In other words, I write the light into it. Usually, this means punting the problem to some of my characters and letting them deal with the drama and tension of it. Sometimes, it’s by breaking the 4th wall and asking them for their advice. Other times, it’s seeing how I would solve the problem myself if I had the tools or whatever I need.
It works both ways, too. When I’m excited about something working out and need to pour that excess gratitude back into the Universe, I again write the light and let my characters share in that joy and help me further manifest something.
This process works so well for me because it lets me do something with the emotion instead of just bottling it up or spilling it out onto everyone around me, positive or negative. Yes, family would love to share my excitement and willingly sympathize when I’m down, but for the negatives especially, something needs done with those to keep from bringing everyone else down. Transforming them—alchemizing them—like this soothes my soul with the actual writing and helps me reframe mentally to move on from it. Similarly, the really exciting bits of life can lead to more fixation than manifestation, so by turning it into words, I can put that energy back out into the Universe to create what I want or need to.
Here are a few examples of what I consider lightwriting in my own practice.
Alchemizing the Negative:
Manifesting the Positive:
What’s even more awesome is that I feel this applies to my editing as well. Why? Because I can shine a light on areas of a project that aren’t working well and use my fresh perspective to figure out some new ideas for it… just like I have my characters do when I put my own problems before them.
Even in the writing I hope to publish, though (i.e., not just the therapeutic deal-with-my-drama tripe), I aim for the light. I am forever hoping that my writing will inspire someone, make them curious, or help them with something they may be struggling with themselves, even if it’s in a completely different way than my characters.
What can you write the light into today?