Turn Your Life An Inch.
Curious about the work of your Shadow Kingdom?
Find out exactly how much you know about yourself.
HOW ABOUT I JUST SHARE HOW THE STORY OF CHANGE OF YOUR SHADOW KINGDOM CAN BECOME REALITY.
And we'll work from there?
To fully appreciate this, you’ve gotta know that I started to learn more about fiction writing. I was the classic “I don’t know what to write” kid who was at a loss for ideas to come up with a storyline in school when it came to the ‘essay writing’ assignment.
Tim is becoming a world champion. Think of a story such as a football tournament, describe Tim, Tim is coming too late, a teammate drops out, Tim replaces him etc.
I dreaded writing stories. It was more than daunting to write these endless pages of action, adventure, characterisation and twisting plotlines because I struggled so badly with coming up with a story.
Who could believe that, right? This seemingly natural gift that should’ve been given into my cradle must’ve gotten lost somewhere along the way.
Poor Tim…no great adventures for him.
When you are faced with lack of understanding, or of not knowing how to come up with a story for Tim, it might be useful to ask whether it is the story structure aspect or the writing craft aspect one does not grasp. Does one comprehend the overall structure but not some aspects of it, or does one not comprehend the whole because one lacks the foundation?
The aspect of developing the writing craft has been truly hammered into my DNA. So, I still struggle with the story structure aspect badly, tbh.
Now tho’, there’s new hope for Tim 😂
You go back (for some) to the beginning. Where all starts.
The fundamentals.
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Why do stories exist and what is their purpose?
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How are they built?
You learn that story structure is built on many brickets. You look at these brickets in detail, and you take things apart. Then you take things apart again, and then put them together. Every brick is connected with all the other bricks, nothing is there just randomly.
All is connected. All is a totality.
Writing fiction is learning the fundamentals and practicing continuously, and vice versa.
You always keep going back to the fundamentals. You never stop practicing the pieces of your bricks. You keep doing the work intertwined together, keep improving, with more nuance, with more subtlety, with more depth.
It is not a one and done thing, like…
I learned it once, I don’t have to go back and worry about it. I achieved it. I acquired the expertise. I know this already.
No, it is actually quite the opposite.
It is necessary to build a foundation, to have a sound theoretical base, a training manual, the right gears, and lots of application combined with theories for change to be effective.
Wanna learn more about these fundamentals in Life Cultivation?
CHANCES ARE, YOU ALREADY KNOW A LOT ABOUT CHANGE.
Here’s one piece of advice, in lieu of advice about Life Cultivation (sorry–I’m tapped!):
"An inch off course at the beginning
can lead to a thousand-mile error in the end."
You don’t bother spending much time on the aspect of learning to 'Knowing Yourself' better, instead you jump instantly to 'Changing Yourself'.
This is especially true in the realm of Life Cultivation and working on Jingshen (the non-physical aspect of life, consisting of your consciousness, spiritual heart and Shen), and most certainly for life cultivators who want to change themselves.
It’s easy to forget the why we want to spend time on 'Knowing Yourself' before we can move to 'Changing Yourself'.
Knowing and understanding can be VERY open to interpretation if your work of 'changing' your life is not based on a good understanding of life. In Ren Xue Life Cultivation learning about the 'laws of life' and most importantly applying them in a systematic way is a huge freakin’ deal.
It sounds weird, but in short: Laws tell you how things work.
You need to have a good understanding of all parts of your life to understand and work on the problems that are currently plaguing your life and to deal with them.
These are the fundamentals of a life cultivator’s trait.
Because you are here, I guess you also want to know more about these fundamentals of Life Cultivation.
It all starts here.