Why picturing what success looks like is important for writers

Visualization is a powerful psychological technique.

Author Barbara Linn Probst isn't suggesting it as a way to manifest your goals into a magical existence.

Rather, she's drawing on her previous job as a therapist to share a multidirectional tool.

The "magic question" of what's called solution-focused therapy invites you to consider how you would know if you had reached a goal.

That allows you not just to identify what, exactly, you're hoping to achieve, but also what strategies and routes you'll use to get there.

Probst discusses more on identifying your essential desire as a writer in a post for Writer Unboxed.

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