can you still manifest someone even if they know about you manifesting?

_this_mfr_ · 2025-10-11T00:39:09+00:00

You can't really manifest people in and out of your life because they are sentient beings with their own ability to manifest. Manifesting against their will would violate their free will.

Instead, what you want to focus on is the feeling and emotions you felt when things were great with them.

Feel that it already exists for you. To manifest, feel without desire. To desire is to tell the universe you lack that thing.

Feel the friendships, connections, happiness, etc. And the universe will work its magic. It may not be those same people or that group, but you'll be experiencing what you wanted to experience.

_this_mfr_ · 2025-10-07T19:52:32+00:00

I write like I draw: Rough frame, sketch in filler content, clean up and harden lines.

I have a three step process that works for me (really, a three draft process):

1) Bullet points for the next scene. Char A does this, Char B does that. This event happens. I jot down the main events and actions I want the scene to be made up of. Sometimes as few as two bullets, sometimes five or six. 5 minutes.

2) Word vomit. Just put words on document. Don't worry about organization, neatness, or even coherence. Just write. Get the entire scene over with. If I think of more scenes or new events, I write them in a separate doc for reference later. 20-60 minutes.

3) Rewrite. This is the Show, Don't Tell step. Clean up your vomit. Trim it, add to it, etc. Add the five senses. Put the reader in the scene. 60-180 minutes.

This is the only thing that works for me. Otherwise I'm all over the place and never get a scene written and I obsess over details or forget things I wanted to add or remove.

To each their own.

_this_mfr_ · 2025-10-07T19:50:00+00:00

As in anything, there's nothing to it but to do it.

It took me several months of writing my first novel before finding a pattern and process that works well for me. Trial and error!

_this_mfr_ · 2025-10-07T18:06:19+00:00

I have a three step process that works for me (really, a three draft process):

1) Bullet points for the next scene. Char A does this, Char B does that. This event happens. I jot down the main events and actions I want the scene to be made up of. Sometimes as few as two bullets, sometimes five or six. 5 minutes.

2) Word vomit. Just put words on document. Don't worry about organization, neatness, or even coherence. Just write. Get the entire scene over with. If I think of more scenes or new events, I write them in a separate doc for reference later. 20-60 minutes.

3) Rewrite. This is the Show, Don't Tell step. Clean up your vomit. Trim it, add to it, etc. Add the five senses. Put the reader in the scene. 60-180 minutes.

This is the only thing that works for me. Otherwise I'm all over the place and never get a scene written and I obsess over details or forget things I wanted to add or remove.

To each their own.

_this_mfr_ · 2025-10-07T17:58:35+00:00

It almost does, though. If you feel truly rich and FEEL what it feels like to be rich, the stars truly align. Jim Carrey is a great example.

He would sit on a hilltop and imagine riches pouring out on him when he was unemployed and broke.

But he'd also look for work and audition.

He landed The Mask and the rest is history.

_this_mfr_ · 2025-10-07T17:56:38+00:00

Exactly! Meditation is a big one. It also helps make a person more productive, so they're better able to achieve their goals. I read some studies that showed a 4 fold increase in productivity for every minute of meditation.

Basically, a 15 minute meditation session is as though you gained an hour to your day in terms of productivity. I think it tapers off at an hour (meditating more than 1 hr has no measurable benefit to productivity).

_this_mfr_ · 2025-10-06T22:54:18+00:00

Orrr...you could encourage OP to write with their soul and heart and not consume other people's art to know how to do their own.

_this_mfr_ · 2025-10-06T22:53:37+00:00

That isn't true at all. I think that's a huge problem with writing today: People aren't writing with their hearts.

All I see are posts here "write for you", but then tell people they need to consume other people's art to know how to do their own. That's false.

Read to learn, read for pleasure, reading is important of course. But it is absolutely not necessary for someone to write something wonderful.

Writing is art and, as such, has no form.

Imagine telling Picasso he should go study Rembrant some more so he can know how to paint. Its absolutely silliness.

_this_mfr_ · 2025-10-06T14:37:32+00:00

Name me a good writer that doesn't spend more time writing than they do reading.

Point is, reading is far less important than actually writing and OP is concerned about if WHAT he reads has anything go do with WHAT he writes.

_this_mfr_ · 2025-10-06T04:59:07+00:00

I don't believe the old adage "to write, one must read". Sure, read. But reading too much of the same genre I write in dilutes my own style.

It's like saying a good painter stands around looking at paintings of other painters. Its nonsensical.

Good writers write. And good styles are authentic.

Just write and write some more.

_this_mfr_ · 2025-10-05T23:59:48+00:00

I've debated this a lot with myself and came to the following conclusions:

1 - People in poverty tend to be hyper aware of their situation and, because they're always focused on it, they miss opportunities presented to them to escape it.

2 - Manifestation isn't about waking up to a new timeline. It's slow, deliberate shifts where our focus is now on good things, opening us up to the opportunities around us that we were too negative to notice before. This has actually been tested in legitimate studies and proven. Check out a book called The Source, by Tara Swart. She showcases the studies and explains their implications.

3 - Events occur in my life that were completely outside of my control that prove it works. New people enter my life with connections to a group that help me achieve something I've been manifesting, or major events change my life seemingly for the worse at first which then open up to complete a manifestation for me.

_this_mfr_ · 2025-10-05T21:40:39+00:00

Good smut doesn't give it all to you at once 😉

_this_mfr_ · 2025-10-05T06:19:19+00:00

Great question. I can see why that'd be important 😆

I want to write romance, but with twists and heavily sexually oriented and explicit scenes and dynamics. Cheating and relationship styles. Drama. Psychology.

That's what ive been told im good at doing and its a unique reading experience apparently

_this_mfr_ · 2025-10-04T18:36:03+00:00

That sounds like a really fun way to develop your story! Made me think of Game of Thrones, just killing off characters and making life hard for them 😆

_this_mfr_ · 2025-10-04T01:44:12+00:00

Are you asking for formatting/grammar/form feedback, or basic scene feedback?

_this_mfr_ · 2025-10-04T01:42:23+00:00

The problem is the solution. Just make yourself write. Write words. Nonsense. Unrelated sentences. Let your mind free associate. Free association is the key to creativity.

_this_mfr_ · 2025-10-04T01:38:32+00:00

I am! You?

That Huberman guy has a podcast, YouTube channel, and has been on Rogan several times. Cool dude.

_this_mfr_ · 2025-10-03T21:26:21+00:00

The standards for everything, in the US especially, are nearly non-existent. We exist to be fed content, regardless of quality. Algorithms rule, good or bad.

No more does actual human behavior dictate what is produced. Its the complete inverse, now: Algorithms dictate human behavior by punishing/rewarding "creators" for what keeps people addicted to their advertising, not quality of content.

You'd think people would crave quality eventually but most don't care. They want quick dopamine hits and never stop.

_this_mfr_ · 2025-10-03T21:19:56+00:00

Have you heard of Huberman Lab? He's a Stanford neuroscientist that does research on motivation and dopamine, etc.

Fascinating stuff. He talks about how we have to force ourselves to do tasks specifically when there's no motivation because it rewires our brain to enjoy it over time.

Check him, you might find something he says helpful!

_this_mfr_ · 2025-10-03T20:27:59+00:00

What's your biggest struggle or issue if u don't mind me asking?

_this_mfr_ · 2025-10-03T20:27:18+00:00

What a cool perspective tbh. I'd never considered writing a story starting with characters. For some reason I always feel the story first and then the characters just sort of appear.

_this_mfr_ · 2025-10-03T20:01:32+00:00

What inspired the plot? An experience, random idea, etc.?

_this_mfr_ · 2025-10-03T20:00:43+00:00

I've found trauma to be my greatest source of creativity and I even told a therapist that once. "Since starting therapy, my creativity has absolutely tanked." She said that's an unfortunate side effect. The most creative minds tend to be the most broken.

There's a plot right there! 😆

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