Could you be a Scared Scribe and/or Bridge?

When I first began writing, I was 10 or 11. I had no idea what it could mean to be a “scribe,” nor did I even think about why I would be writing – why would I? In college I fell in love with writing classes and my English Literature courses.

Anything that got me closer to books felt like it was magical to me. I loved analyzing the works of different time periods and how some phrases just stick with you. To this day, I often think of how the theme of people trying to “bring light to the dark places of the earth” still applies as in the book Heart of Darkness, or how the character in The Sound and the Fury could never say what he wanted to say – he could never say “Caddy.” I feel sad about the women who were seen as “crazy” and locked away in attics in the 1800’s. So much so that men took mistresses and pretended they weren’t up there, as told through the literature of the time. (Didn’t anyone wonder what would make them all “crazy”?)

I didn’t know how to make a living writing, so I chose a more financially lucrative career only to have this idea looming out there that I would return to write someday, somehow.

When I made the space for it, when I finally said, “Okay universe, I don’t know what I’m going to write but I’m ready to try it,” that is when my journey unfolded – though definitely not in a neat and tidy manner – to reveal to me that I am both a “bridge” and a “scribe.”

What is a scribe?

A scribe is one who connects to a higher perspective when they write. Be it your higher self, angels, writers from past times, a collective consciousness, or your own spiritual team. It happens when you write and you can feel the difference between when you are connected and when you are not. It is the difference between flow, the ability to be an omniscient narrator, and words that can feel flat on the page. Being a scribe often resolves a problem or offers healing information to others.

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A bridge is one who sees the bigger picture and then translates it to something that is easier for people to understand. It is as if you just know something is true, but it comes in a way that is too hard to explain at first, so you translate it into terms that make sense for the people you are wanting to receive it. You may describe the vision, describe the knowing in such a way that people can take action or receive healing from it. It is a bridge between the higher consciousness and our current reality. I believe teachers do this. They understand a concept and then they break it down for their students to be able to not only understand it, but implement it in their lives.

We often do not know we are a bridge or a scribe, and instead find obstacles, turmoil, and a fear of being seen when we commit to our writing journey. Thankfully, knowing that you are a scribe or bridge (or both!) is often the awareness you need to find the resources to move forward with more ease.

Here are 22 Signs that your writing is more than it seems. Clues that you may be a Sacred Scribe, or a Bridge (or both!).

1. You know you are meant to write.

You have a strong sense you are meant to write, but you’re not sure WHAT you are meant to write. You may have seen an image of yourself having a book one day, being at your book signing, or you may feel you want to write a book long before you know the content. The feeling stays with you and it hovers somewhere around you – this idea that you will write a book one day.

2. Your writing comes in premonitions.

You begin to have an awareness of a chapter, a blog post, a poem, or another writing piece before you write it. In other words, it will begin forming so that by the time you sit down to write it, it comes through in whole segments.

3. You are pleasantly surprised by your own writing.

There are times when you completely forget what you’ve written and have to go back and read it to see. Often you may be surprised at how good it sounds. I experienced this with my teenage writing. I went back to read it expecting it to be juvenile and clumsy and was very surprised to find how much awareness I had back then and how well constructed it is.

4. You have a greater awareness when you write.

When you write you seem to have a greater awareness and even vocabulary than in your everyday life. It is as if you are writing from a higher perspective than you usually have access to.

5. Writing feels really good!

Writing feels really good and you often can feel you are on a spiritual high after you finish a piece. Afterward you may crash and need a nap (what goes up must come down!).

6. The words come anyway.

If you don’t write, the words keep coming. Possibly waking you up when you are sleeping or in quiet moments of meditation or yoga. I have written blog posts that I heard on my walks, or when in nature, literally for years before I finally sat down and put them to the page. I have also tried to take breaks only to have the words get louder and more frequent.

7. Your writing feels sacred.

If nothing else, it feels really good to journal. Just the act of paper to pen feels comforting and ritualistic in some way. In a quiet room especially, it may feel sacred.

8. Writing rituals feels very supportive.

You are ritualistic about your writing. For example, you may like a certain calm music playing, or you like a clear space, or to be in nature. Some sort of rituals or practices that support your writing that just feel better when you do them.

9. Writing comes through you.

You feel the writing comes through you somehow. It was a blank page and suddenly it’s a chapter. It is as if you know you wrote it, you remember ever word as you were doing it, but you also have no memory of it.

10. Your writing can feel healing.

Your writing feels healing in some way either for you or for the reader. If it is a book for entertainment, for example, your life may fall apart and you go through healing to bring it through. If it is a metaphysical book, you may experience the healing as you write it and then reader goes through a similar healing experience when they read it.

11. Your words contain a message and it’s important for you to reach others.

You words often have a message and it feels important to reach people with them. You love to write, but it feels just as important for it to reach the audience it is meant to reach. You don’t want your words tucked away in a drawer or left in your computer. They are on the page for a reason.

12. The word “scribe” sounds familiar to you and a little bit magical.

It’s a beautiful word really.

13. You rarely suffer from traditional “Writer’s Block.”

If you cannot write, it is more likely because it is formulating in your head and you do other things like walk in nature, clear the clutter around your desk, or schedule quiet time in the house so you can have a clear mind to write it.

14. Your words seem “timeless.”

You may have a sense of urgency to write, but once it is written it seems to stay relevant. Metaphysical books are often like this. People are still discovering Louise Hay’s You can Heal Your Life, or Wayne Dyer’s books and they feel exciting and new though they were written decades ago. There are fiction works that stand this test of time too. My 11 year old is reading classics with his class and they are all so excited about them. Some books are 100’s of years old!

15. The process of writing will often teach you something.

When you sit down to write out an idea or book, you come out knowing more than you did before. You learn something you needed to learn by following your inspiration to write about it.

16. Writing exposes your soul and makes you feel vulnerable.

You feel vulnerable, even if you are writing about something that isn’t personal and shouldn’t make you feel that way. You find it harder to say you are a writer than it seems to be for others.

17. You can’t write just ANYTHING.

You find you can’t just write what you think people will want to hear or what will be the easiest to market. Traditional writing advice doesn’t apply to you. It comes from within. Somehow you just know this is true and if you let it happen it will be much more well written than if you don’t.

18. Writing solves your own problems.

If you are facing an obstacle in your life, you are often to surprised you find the answer through writing. In other words, you write about what you are experiencing and a solution is presented that benefits you and the reader. Something that hadn’t occurred to you before.

19. You receive your content through the “Clairs.”

Often one way of receiving is more prominent than the others. You may hear the words coming to you. You may suddenly “see” the finished book and you suddenly know how to write the whole thing. You may have both a vision of the final product and then hear the words coming through. Receiving through the Clairs the “Big Picture,” and then working with them to receive the words.

20. You feel as if you’ve done this before.

It comes natural to you and it feels familiar, as if you’ve done this many times before. This writing connection, the familiar feeling. It’s comforting in times when you are feeling down.

21. Your life falls apart, especially if you write a book.

It feels like you are “birthing” it into the world. It is conception, gestation, to the messy but beautiful completion to bring your book into the world. Creating a website with all its vulnerable copy can feel this way too.

22. You feel “called” to write.

Even if you don’t know how you will do it, what you will say, how it will pay your bills, you have this calling to write.

I’d love to hear from you in the comments. Please add any other signs that clued you in to this there too! Was your discovery easy and effortless or more surprising?

XOXO,