The subconscious is a powerful tool for every writer but it’s difficult to know how to harness its potential to work for you when you want it to. Think of your mind as a ship, with the captain steering and looking out to the horizon, and the crew working away below decks, out of sight. From a writing point of view, the crew does a lot of the work without the captain even being aware of it and it’s very useful to be able to communicate with them in order to tap into what they’re doing.
Hypnotherapist and children’s author, Steve Bowkett, agrees that there’s a valuable resource waiting deep in your mind for you to access it: ‘The subconscious is a treasure house of potential ideas, based as it is on the accumulated experiences of a lifetime. It is the ground of those two astonishing resources – memory and imagination.’