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I'm curious about photoreading creative writing to induce success in my own writing... it seems like it would really help me, but I'm worried that if I photo read song lyrics or poetry, that I will inadvertantly "think of them" and write them out, not realizing that I had read them somewhere...

My question is, if I photoread lyrics, poetry, etc., will I be able to recognize them? As in, if I think of a line, will I realize that its something I've read, as opposed to something I just thought up? The whole subconscious in control thing just makes me nervous.

Thanks in advance for any and all help!

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Have you searched the forum? The book has testimonials and the website has testimonials of people improving their writing and inspriation.

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My question is, if I photoread lyrics, poetry, etc., will I be able to recognize them? As in, if I think of a line, will I realize that its something I've read, as opposed to something I just thought up? The whole subconscious in control thing just makes me nervous.

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You're already influenced by what others have produced. That's why each era has a recognisable style

Subconscious concreols are also know as habits... they are already there what is there to be nerevous of?

Try it yourself and see what you get.

Alex

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Originally posted by Alex K. Viefhaus:
[B]Have you searched the forum? The book has testimonials and the website has testimonials of people improving their writing and inspriation.

You're already influenced by what others have produced. That's why each era has a recognisable style

Subconscious concreols are also know as habits... they are already there what is there to be nerevous of?

Try it yourself and see what you get.

Alex
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I understand and recall the specific examples in the book regarding a similar situation to mine...

My concern is 'unwanted' spontaneous activation. For example, say I PhotoRead a bunch of Beatles lyrics, and then when I'm writing later, the words "take a sad song and make it better" pop into my head. (I know this would be obvious to most people, but I'm using the example so you see what I'm saying). I would guess that altering my purpose specifically for my situation would be extremely helpful... but if I'm going to be photoreading a bunch of lyrics, I don't want to bite concepts and ideas from other writers inadvertantly. I know that photoreading other lyrics will help to influence my style, but what if its to too much extent?

Ok, let me rephrase my question...

If you photoread something, but don't activate it consciously when going back over it... will you know if you read it somewhere when it pops in your head?

Sorry if this is ambiguous or redundant. I'm really excited about this program, and am considering traveling to a seminar.

Thanks again!

I read a book once where what you describe happened with regular reading. A popular author unwittingly plagiarized another author that he had read years before. This story may have been in Einstein Factor by Win Wenger.

I would say that there is some danger of it happening whether you Photoread or not.

How does the saying go? "Steal from one source, it's called plagiarism. Steal from many sources, it's called research."

I think it would be interesting to try it and see what happens. Maybe your work will turn out influenced by those other sources, but still be completely your own. You can always go back and activate what you've PR'd after you've completed your masterpiece but before you put it out into the world.

PhotoReading multiple topic is going to create a whole different line of thinking than just reading one book. As for a sentence being stolen form another source...

It was the best of times it was the worst of time.
To boldly go...
You don't love me anymore...

and the old favourite

Once upon a time...

If you create something new around around a some words from a Beatles song, were you inspired or were you stealing? If you say stealing then half the songs we hear need to be deleted.

Personally I've found there is less likelihood of me plagurizing word for word unintentionally because PhotoReading is reading for meaning, to get understanding rather than the elementary reading trick of parroting back the information as a result of memorisation to get a good grade. Without understanding what the heck we are talking about. Because PhotoReading is a body mind connection I notice those signals that warn me the idea or too many words don't belong to me and I am pulled to check the source.

I can tell you it can be challenging finding a webpage again that I PhotoRead and not bookmarked only to have someone ask questions relating to that topic. That pull that I am almost saying word for word what someone else wrote is that strong.

The risk of taking someone elses work is always there, whether you pick it up with your eyes or ears or ESP.

These days so many people are throwing up the same ideas at the same time it's a race to get your work imprinted with an offical publishing date first.

Alex