Ask the Author: Janis Harper
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Janis Harper
If you know the answer to this, please tell me! :)
Janis Harper
Don't sweat it. Go do something else. It's not the right time right now.
Janis Harper
Creating worlds. Letting others in.
Janis Harper
I'm sure many have said this before: READ! READ! READ!
Janis Harper
I'm currently trying to figure out how Goodreads can help me share/promote my forthcoming, traditionally published book, "Jonas and the Mountain: A Metaphysical Love Story"!
Janis Harper
I open my inner senses wide and listen quietly, attentively. If I'm lucky, something might arrive that wants to be pursued. Something sparks a passion that needs to be expressed. Or I might get obsessed by a particular idea... or an unfinished conversation... Or reading another writer's work will inspire me. Or I engage with another arts modality--dancing, singing, drawing--or I just go for a walk and clear my head. Inspiration is a magical, mysterious thing; it can't be harnessed. But it can be invited.
Janis Harper
"Jonas and the Mountain" (forthcoming in October 2021 by Sacred Stories) was a way to get the protagonists to figure out a long-standing central question I had regarding enlightenment / nonduality and metaphysics / creating reality. Can these two approaches to "truth" meet? The novel poured out after a retreat in India with an enlightened guru and some life-changing experiences.
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