Naima B. Robert – Fearfree Writing Session Muslimah Author Summit 2022
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Just testing it now.
We are going to
we are going to be doing a fear
free writing session this morning. If you're
pretty early in the morning,
and we are live in Zoom,
on YouTube
and here on Instagram as well. So just
so that you're aware of what we are
doing
we are going to be doing a fear
free writing session so literally, we're gonna write.
So there's not gonna be a lot of
talking from me. There's gonna be a lot
of writing from you inshallah. So what I
need you to do is if you're game,
if you're gonna take part,
then I need you to quickly find somewhere
where you can have some peace and quiet
and get
anything that you would like to write on
whether it's a piece of paper a notebook
your phone
just
quickly I'll give you a couple of minutes
to go and find somewhere quiet
in your room
outside in the garden on your balcony wherever
Just find somewhere quiet
and get something to write with because we're
gonna do some writing today inshallah. Okay? It's
gonna be a 10 minute writing session. This
is what I teach all my clients to
do
because
10 minutes is doable right 10 minutes is
doable for everyone
and no matter how busy you are no
matter how many other demands you have on
your
time, if you do have the desire to
write and 10 minutes a day is something
doable. And I'm very, very, very keen
on teaching things that are doable for everyone.
So if you are seeing me on YouTube,
if you re seeing me on Instagram, if
you re on zoom, chances are that you
spend more than 10 minutes a day maybe
checking out videos, scrolling the timeline or even
posting on your own socials. Now
would you believe me if I told you
that you could actually write a whole book
in just 10 minutes a day?
Well its true. Alhamdulillah I work with book
coaching clients all the time maulayl ham since
2019
I have been working with them and all
I ask them to give me is 10
minutes a day. Between 10 30 minutes a
day and trust and believe they get those
books finished mashallah.
So you today
are going to get a chance to experience
hopefully
fear free writing. Okay?
So when you've got your
little space and you've got your writing
stuff together just give me a yes in
the chat and we're going to get started
InshaAllah.
Alright. This is an exercise for everyone.
Brothers are welcome. Sisters are welcome.
Whether you think you're a writer or not.
Okay. Whether you think that you've got skills
or not, I just want you to take
this challenge. It's a 10 minute challenge this
morning.
Let's do it. Okay? So while you're getting
yourselves ready, I need you to just prepare.
Okay. We want you to prepare mentally
for this challenge.
The essence
of fear free writing
is that you write
in a private
safe space.
I'm going to say that again.
The essence of fear free writing
is that you write in a safe space.
That is a space without judgment,
a space without comparison,
a space without
editing.
And I know that its hard for people
but you are going to give yourself
grace
for 10 minutes
to just write whatever it is that comes
to your mind.
Okay its stream of consciousness writing Its literally
whatever comes to your mind allowing yourself
to release it.
I am going to give you a prompt
and then you are going to take that
prompt and you are going to write for
10 minutes
non stop.
Whatever comes to mind as a result of
that prompt. Okay.
Now before we before we begin
please remember
this is simply a writing challenge
and the whole point of it is not
to produce something that is going to be
an award winning piece of literature.
You're not going to share it on your
socials necessarily. You're not gonna share it with
me, I will not be reading it and
editing it, nobody will be judging you,
it's an exercise
in
unblocking
whatever fears you may have when it comes
to writing and your writing being good enough
and all that kind of thing because
if you obey the rules which I need
you to do I need you to be
obeying the rules the rules are
I give you a prompt
we start the timer
you
write for 10 minutes
whatever comes to mind as a result of
that prompt and you do not stop,
you do not read over what you have
written,
you just allow the writing to flow no
matter how it comes out.
Are you guys ready? Give me a yes
please in the chat if you are ready
and if you if you promise to obey
the rules because we don't want any rule
breaking. If you break the rules it doesn't
work.
Okay? The whole point of this is to
just unblock that fear that you have that
I can't write. I don't have anything to
say, you know, what would so and so
say? What would so and so say if
they saw this? That's the fear that we
wanna get rid of. Okay? We're gonna give
ourselves a safe space for 10 minutes to
just write our hearts out and say whatever
it is that we wanna say okay so
you guys ready I hope you are because
I'm going to start the timer
in a minute. Right? Your prompt is
I never told you
that
ellipses.
Your prompt
what you need to start with is
I never told you that
and I want you to continue the sentence
and I want you to write whatever comes
to mind.
Whoever you comes to mind when you think
when you hear that you're gonna write to
that person. Whatever it is that comes to
mind when you hear that prompt that's what
you're going to write about. Ready go
bismillah.
Your prompt is, 'I never told you that
' and you're gonna keep writing.
I also wanna do this. I'm gonna do
it too.
Those of you who are just joining now,
we are doing a writing challenge. Our time
has begun.
We are writing,
and our prompt is, I never told you
that.
And you need to complete the sentence
and carry on writing for 10 minutes nonstop.
10 minutes nonstop.
Your time has begun already. Okay?
I never told you that
that is the prompt.
We need you to continue the sentence
and keep writing.
I'm gonna keep my speech to a minimum
because I'm also gonna take the challenge, and
also I don't want to get in the
way of your writing. Okay?
I never told you that
If you're already on this challenge,
then feel free to mute me so that
I don't disturb you. Okay? We started at
19 past, and we're going to finish at
29 past.
So feel free to mute me.
Those of you who are here on Instagram,
youre not suppo I'm not saying anything
because it's time to write. It's writing time
now.
Okay it's time to write.
I never told you that
Those of you who are joining on Instagram,
can you hear me now? Let me know
inshallah.
Those of you on YouTube, I hope that
you're writing right now.
And if you can't hear me on Instagram,
then I'm going to come off the live
and let you do your writing for 10
minutes inshallah.
Give me a thumbs up in instagram if
you guys can hear me. Just wanna make
sure that my sound hasn't dropped.
Just give me a thumbs up.
For those of you on the video, I'm
going to mute myself so that I don't
disturb you.
For those of you who are just joining,
we are doing our fear free writing challenge,
and our prompt is I never told you
that We are the
dot dot dot.
And continue with that sentence and write for
10 minutes without reading back over it and
without stopping.
One minute left.
We are at 10 minutes. Those of you
who joined me,
on the at the time that we started,
we've done 10 minutes of writing.
Let me know how that felt.
Was it hard? Was it
a difficult process?
Did you get many words done?
Did the words flow or was it really
difficult?
Let me know insha'Allah. I'd love to hear
what your experience of that was.
Was it harder than you thought it would
be?
Masha'Allah. Sister, I don't know if
you'd like to unmute, please feel free to
share how it was for you.
My sister who is live with me said
that it was very freeing.
I love that. And that is the whole
point is that it is meant to be
a process that is freeing
that
just allows you to just say what is
that whatever it is that is on your
heart to just say that and be able
to just get it out get it off
your chest and get it out onto the
paper and this is really useful for all
of you if
you firstly if you
struggle with
not being able to write because you think
you're not good enough, okay
Just giving yourself a challenge of writing for
10 minutes and not caring how it sounds
makes a big difference. Okay. So that's for
you if
you worry whenever you're going to write you
always have this fear that it's going to
be really bad. It's gonna be, you know,
it's gonna it's gonna be just terrible and,
you know, you've got all of these
negative messages in your head, these negative conversations
happening in your head about the quality of
your writing. If you can give yourself permission
to write for 10 minutes without judgment without
reading over it without needing for it to
be perfect
then it will be very freeing
if you are a person who would like
to be able to tell your own story
but find that very difficult so say for
example you know you want to be able
to share aspects of your story
on your social media or you know in
a book if you want to write a
memoir or anything like that
being able to just give yourself permission to
write for 10 minutes whatever is come is
is on your heart is also very freeing
right because it allows you to simply express
I had no idea what I was going
to write about when I when I started
the challenge I ended up writing
it came out like a message to my
my second son right and I said some
things in there that I wasn't expecting to
say and I didn't know that I needed
to say. But when you give yourself that
space
that safe space you give yourself permission to
just say whatever whatever is on your heart
stuff comes out and it can come out
much easier so if you want to write
you know or sharing your story on your
socials or
if you feel that you want to write
to heal
from some type of experience
some kind of traumatic experience
a sad experience whatever it is giving yourself
permission to just write freely for 10 minutes
again is very very freeing mashallah
right so this is something like I said
I wanted you guys to see the power
of 10 minutes.
A lot of people think that if they're
going to write anything they need to take
a huge chunk out of their day they
need to have all this free time but
really all you need is 10 minutes consistently
every day
And if you found that that was useful
and you enjoyed that then I definitely suggest
that you download my free fear free writing
course where I take you through an exercise
like this every day, not on video. It's
a download
a downloadable,
course,
and it's it's an ebook. And in that
book, I give you prompts for every day.
And all I ask you to do is
to just write for 10 minutes on that
prompt, and each week I give you some
more kind of coaching on your mindset and
help you to kind of frame things and
help you along the way of becoming a
better writer.
So if you would like that I will
post the link, in my stories
as well as in the description of this
video. But I just wanna thank you so
much for working with me. This is a
bit of a just something different to do
as part of the Muslim writers summit 2022.
I hope you enjoyed it. If you did,
leave a comment and definitely we can do
this again inshallah with different prompts.
But for now, I'm gonna sign out and
inshallah,
hope you enjoy the rest of the summit
and if you haven't already got your free
ticket to the summit then please go to
the link in the bio, get your free
ticket, come on to my YouTube channel and
enjoy all the fantastic workshops, training and speakers
that we've had already and that are coming
for the rest of today and Sunday inshallah.
This is Naima b Roberts signing out.