A Blank Page Takes the Stage

See What Happens Next

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Ajo Sacha is an excellent example of a random ingredient in the word slaw that gets my creative juices flowing all over a page.

“What IS ajo sacha,” you may be asking, and what does it have to do with my mojo?

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The definition of Ajo Sacha is quite captivating indeed (description below). However, the actual meaning isn’t as important as the process.

Let me explain.

Finding myself stuck staring at a blank page, I used one of my lazy (but consistently effective) writer tricks: I randomly grabbed the nearest book (“Plant Spirit Shamanism”), opened it to an arbitrary page, and blindly pointed to a word, and voila, Ajo Sacha appeared when I opened my eyes!

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Ajo Sacha became my jumping-off point for writing — the first words of this essay.

I call this method “word-teflon,” as it’s an easy way to get creatively unstuck.