S1 Ep6: FLOWING – experiencing the bliss of deep writing

The Fearless Writer Podcast with Beth Kempton

In this episode we explore the bliss of deep writing, and how to ease ourselves into this experience, where beauty, truth and insight seems to bubble up naturally from the depths of us. The episode includes:

- The wild truth about writing

- How the Prologue of The Way of the Fearless Writer appeared to me

- How access a state of deep writing

- PLUS a powerful visualisation to help you listen deeply and invite inspiration

In each episode, I will talk for about fifteen to twenty minutes, and then offer you a timed writing exercise at the end to try, for another ten minutes. Grab yourself a cuppa and settle in for a lovely writerly chat. With inspiration from Antonio Machado, Jane Hirshfield and Haruki Murakami.

I hope this podcast will help you write fearlessly, and with joy, and build a writing practice that nourishes you for the rest of your life. I’d love to see what writing it inspires – feel free to share by tagging me @bethkempton #fearlesswriterpodcast

BethXx

PS Please note there is a chunk of silence in this podcast. It is supposed to be there for the weekly writing exercise!

Click here to download the transcript
The theme music for The Fearless Writer Podcast is The River sung by Danni Nicholls, co-written by Danni Nicholls and me, Beth Kempton. Listen on iTunes / Spotify / Youtube and feel free to add it to your Instagram reels! See here for the lyrics and full credits.

***Did you know the audiobook version of The Way of the Fearless Writer includes a full meditation album to help get the words flowing? You can get it here.

Resources mentioned in this episode:

• The Way of the Fearless Writer by Beth Kempton (Piatkus). US/Canada edition HERE.
• Untitled poem by Antonio Machado, translated by Robert Bly in The Enlightened Heart, edited by Stephen Mitchell

• Nine Gates by Jane Hirshfield

• Haruki Murakami interview in the New Yorker

More at bethkempton.com / dowhatyouloveforlife.com / Instagram @bethkempton