Cameron goes on to talk in more depth about synchronicity in the Week 3 chapter. I'm resistant to believing this--it feels too much like buying snake oil--but good things really have happened, crativity-wise, once I started committing to creativity. The day before yesterday I announced I would bang out the first draft of my novel in August, even though I had only the vaguest idea of what the story would look like.

Then this morning I had a breakthrough in planning that novel when a book thrown my way by Kobo's recommendation system (The Anatomy of Story, by John Truby) gave me the exact pointers to figure things out. Rationally speaking this is due to my effort, since Kobo wouldn't have recommended that book if I hadn't been reading so many books on writing. Also I wouldn't have gained as much from The Anatomy of Story if I hadn't been reading it with my novel in mind. Still, I feel incredibly lucky that I read the right words at the right time. I'm willing to accept that it's the universe or creative force or whatever that's leading my way, if only to see what happens.