June's come a-knocking and we are ready for some rocking. Some synchronization here and there and viola! we are ready for this month's theme. Guesses would be off, as it's something me and you would never have thunk! So, let's get this article on the road, kicking off the sub-genre "Synchronicity" for all to behold.

A concept introduced and coined by analytical psychologist Carl Jung in the late 1920's "to describe circumstances that appear meaningfully related yet lack a causal connection", Synchronicity encounters refer to one's subjective experience whereby coincidences between events in a mind and the outside world might be unrelated and yet they might be unknowingly connected. He felt it was possible for seemingly unrelated events to come together in "meaningful coincidences."

Even though this term originated in the late 1920's by Jung, it was developed through correspondence with physicist Wolfgang Pauli in their 1952 work The Interpretation of Nature and the Psyche, which culminated in the Pauli–Jung theory. According to Jung and Pauli, just as causal connections can provide a meaningful understanding of the psyche and the world, so too may acausal connections.

Synchronicity is known by many names and phrases. Called serendipity, coincidence, answered prayers, stars aligning, the law of attraction, pre-destiny, law of manifestation. Feel free to share any more phrases that you know in the inline comments here-->

Julia Cameron in The Artist's Way writes, "whatever you choose to call it, once you begin your creative recovery you may be startled to find it cropping up everywhere."

In Mandarin Chinese, 緣分 pronounced "yuan-fen" are the two characters that hold the meaning that most resemble synchronicity. They encapsulate the occasions, where we meet people never known before--who connect and resonate with us on a profound level.

Synchronicity is also characterised by those out-of-the-blue, unique moments of coincidence in our life where a person, image, sound, smell, feeling crosses our life suddenly, surprisingly, with no reasonable context or logic. It's these instances that connect with us in a teeny-weeny way, and strikes a chord to the core--unexplainable though it seems.

While synchronicity seems trivial and probably inconsequential at times, simple things like a "thank you" email, a warm handshake, a hug or the courage to ask for something we want, but have no expectations of getting and we get it, do have a significant impact on our lives.

Synchronicity relates to writing in so many ways. And as writers, we understand this concept better than anyone else on the planet.

"All too often, when people talk about creative work, they emphasize strategy. If you ask an artist how he got where he is, he will not describe breaking in but instead will talk of a series of lucky breaks. 'A thousand helping hands,' Joseph Campbell calls these breaks. I call them synchronicity." — Julia Cameron.

Cameron has likened synchronicity in writing to a divine act. A fact cultivated and believed by us writers. Things like:

- Approach your writing practice with an open mind and heart.

- You can plan and plot every minute detail of your narrative, but you'll still stray from it. You can study the craft until your eyeballs dry, but you unconsciously end up breaking some of the rules.

- Working hard to write a structured, coherent story, only for discoveries and epiphanies to deviate the plot off the course(*don't we do this all the time xP There's beauty in unchartered paths*)

- Follow the new paths and see where they lead. Playing with plots, exploring characters are one of the most beautiful, integral courses of the creative freedom. Rigidity is creativity's ultimate enemy.

- Stay remarkable, curious and open-minded--synchronicity will follow.

- Let your characters takeover the reins of your story where plot and character co-exist in harmony. No characters, no plot. No plot, no characters.

- Trust your characters. Follow them, the paths they discover and the trails they blaze.

- Even if your characters' development's partially complete and you've a rough idea of the direction they want to take. So just let it go and let them take the lead.

I think we experience synchronicity in our writing every day, all the time. When out of no where, an idea suddenly pops out; or when we are doing some mundane tasks or chores and we have the untangle the gaping hole in the plot; or when we struggle with a story and something in food or anything random lights the way we've to take; or when stuck at a cliffhanger, an idea swerves at you like a yorker and clears all the cobwebs. That, my friend is, synchronicity in action. All we have to is put it into words. Simple as that!

In addition to specific synchronicities, there are common ones that influence us all. Something like:

- The times we are thinking about someone and they reach out to you out of the blue. Or the times we think of a song and it comes on the radio.

- Repeating numbers in a sequence is a common synchronicity for many.

- There are also answers to questions that suddenly appear out of nowhere. Many-a-times, someone is asking the very question we were contemplating or a YouTube video that pops up when we are searching for some information.

Here are some Wattpad recommendations:

Synchronicity by ComfortZone_area

Blurb: - In place of madness I'll offer up a prayer. I'm in love with you Guided by the constellations - Uea

-I never thought I'd be able to love someone this much. Now that I know this feeling, I'll never be the same - King

Synchronicity by FreyaOdin

Blurb: Mitch takes a much-needed break from family time at Christmas to go clubbing and hopefully find a hot hookup. He wakes up the next morning with no regrets, save one.

SYNCHRONICITY (Dream Walker) 🖋 by VeroniqueLeNoir

Blurb: Author Alison McNaulty is half of a celebrated animal training duo specializing in canine behavior...Why Does My Dog Do That is her latest collaboration with her husband Doctor David McNaulty. After traveling all over the US, she returns home, exhausted but happy...the book tour is over but she finds that the market has been flooded with dog trainers and there is little for her to do, so she turns to writing fiction.

She retreats into her stories and memories in the form of dreams, when David succumbs to the injuries he sustains from an automobile accident, she dares to ask the question, what if...Alison enters a world that she didn't know existed, where she, a talented educated woman is loved and protected as well as loathed and hunted.

She grieves for her husband but she never forgot the boy who got away in her youth.

Nothing is as it seems and she soon learns that the boy, now a man, is the key to her survival.

There are no coincidences...

This is all for now. We meet in July with a new article, and a new genre. Till then, it's good bye and take care! ❤️ Love you! Cheers, Nab =] 

Nablai