Silent seeker:
OMG yes! Writing is definitely a really good thing to do void with.
Right before I found JoS I woke from a dream where I 'saw' the two main characters for a book I wanted to write. I've always wanted to write a story, a big ass book like the lord of the rings, but I needed the seminal characters names. So now, here they were, showing themselves! I said out loud: OK, but what are your names? And I 'heard' the names. Ran to the computer and wrote them down phonetically because they were strange names. Much later on, I stumbled across something online that mentioned one of those names and it turns out it is a name for one of our Gods. I don't remember now off the top of my head, sorry, which God it was. But I was pretty amazed at that time. I spent 4 delirious months writing this story. I put everything into writing it, from morning to night I wrote and was so incredibly happy doing it.
I've heard writers speak of how, as the story progresses, the characters seem to come alive and begin to dictate to the writer what they want. Anne Rice has spoken of this: Lestat dictated to her, or Steven King and His character, Roland the Gunslinger. They began to tell the person writing the story what they wanted. And it happened to me too. I was sitting having tea when my main character spoke up, clear as day in my head and said: "You wrote me in as the bad guy, but I'm NOT the bad guy. You're going to re-write that shit you said about me". So I scrapped 400 pages and began to write again, and this 'character' was giving me what to write. I thought I was the author, I was the one writing the story but, He came in and He told ME what to write!
And this touches on something that I've been wondering about. How, when a character reaches out and touches so many people, becomes so popular in the mass mind, is it because there is a truth behind it? Like a character from a gaming site. He became the most popular character of all time with a mass following, the most beloved and popular character of all time. And that character was built upon a truth, upon a God, Andras. Andras told me it was fashioned after Him. Yeah, its not HIM, but it has a lot of His qualities. And my contention is, is it possible that He reached out and touched so many people, because its a real person, and not 'just' a story? Or the character, xena, warrior princess. That character is actually built upon Vepar. When that character was introduced, there was a massive response to it, it became incredibly popular and again, its not HER, but its fashioned after Her.
Is it possible that, when a writer does void, who immerses themselves in the writing so much, do they forge a link to a truth? To something, somebody that actually exists, and they aren't making up a story anymore, but maybe telling somebody's story that actually exists?
Its like something I found, when I stumbled across a site online where people were asking for dream interpretations, and the answers I saw them getting were mostly BS. I've spent over ten years studying my own dreams, working on dream recall, etc and I knew that what they were being told was shit, so I decided I'd answer.
I'd read the question, read it again, and again, and then just start writing. Immerse myself in the writing, not thinking, just doing, and the answer wrote itself. And it was hard, to hit the send button because I was questioning myself: are you just full of shit? Do you have something meaningful to impart? How do you KNOW? Well, I didn't know, but I sent the answers anyways, and I found, from the responses that it was accurate and meaningful. So...what is that?
I was deep in void answering, and somehow I hit upon a truth for these people. Like one woman, I was in the library answering her question. And suddenly I 'heard' a song begin to play. It was so loud! Like somebody was standing behind me holding a ghetto blaster with the song playing. I looked around: No. Its quiet, its a library. But the song continued to blast. So i took some of the lines from it and inserted them into my answer to her. And she responded that it made her think of a song...their song. And guess what? It was THAT song.
So..yeah. I think that doing void while writing is very powerful, and that not only can it help you do void, but it can help you find truths, for yourself and for others, and I wonder if its also a form of channeling.
