Writing Is My Lifestyle
I love questions. They direct your thoughts and help to create momentum along a particular path. I was asked, “What is your writing process?” and I thought, “I don’t have one.” However, that is – I know – a way of avoiding self-examination and answer formation. I also know that answering will gift me with more self-love and understanding, more motivation and greater efficiency moving forward.
So I looked around in my very opinionated, very active brain, and found some answers. And as I expected, figuring me out gifted me with more self-love and understanding, more motivation and greater efficiency for the books ahead.
The answer:
As a child, I was driven to write. I had a common diary and wrote long, well thought out letters to my relatives and penpals. I enjoyed the process in a fashion similar to addiction and yet I was irritated by requests to write in a particular way for any school essay or story. Soon I decided that letter writing and diary entries were a hindrance to my success and to my useful application of this drive to create. I was eight.
I wanted my writing to count and not be time spent for my own pleasure and no one else’s. I understood that creative writing could be channeled into a book of short stories and was driven to examine myself in this way. I began to collect my work and approached all school projects with a creative flair so that they had a chance to become part of my anthology.
All of my childhood writing was destroyed but the lessons I learned along the way were not.
I learned that a diary can be a book and started on my first (still unpublished) memoir.
That book is in a drawer waiting for the right moment. The next was also a memoir (published) but contained to a specific time frame and point of view. It is an amazing bit of literature few have read.
As an adult, I only write what interests me and never with money as the motivator. I care about self-reflection and healthy humans so I write about that. I ask myself a question and sit down to the computer. I fall into the answer and a book comes out. I never have to make myself write, only not write. This is the process for the books I think I “should” write.
The ones that are like giving birth, though, sit in wait. I know the title and the basic concept of the story, sometimes for decades. These books wait for me, they nurture me and tell me when to write them. These books take me over and I can’t stop till they are done and I am brand new. So I guess what I am waiting for is a willingness to be brand new.
Meanwhile, I write the books I believe others need, though they may not be seeking. Writing, for me, is a gift to others which when given, gives to me.
Writing is my lifestyle and it is a process.
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Dr. Lynette Louise aka The Brain Broad is an International Brain Change expert. She is a speaker, award-winning author, performer, podcast host, neurofeedback & autism expert, and creator/host/therapist for the international docu-series series FIX IT IN FIVE with LYNETTE LOUISE aka THE BRAIN BROAD, now showing on The Autism Channel. Her one-woman show, Crazy to Sane, about mental health and abuse, invites laughter, learning, and toe-tapping fun globally FREE every year in April (Autism Awareness Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month).
She is also the single mother of eight now grown children; Six were adopted and four were on the autism spectrum. Only one of her sons retains his label and remains dependent. Lynette’s book The Seven Senses of Leadership: The Brain Broad’s Guide to Leadership Sensibilities has been a bestseller on Amazon and continues to receive impressive reviews while her new release, Inspire Yourself To Greatness: Change Your Brain, Change The World, has begun to follow in similar footsteps.
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Inspire Yourself To Greatness: Change Your Brain, Change The World offers a powerful and interactive reading experience. Dr. Lynette Louise (The Brain Broad) taps into her international understanding of culture along with her deep knowledge of the brain to share experiences, insights, brain facts, the science of beliefs, and timeless quotes, all while inspiring readers to share their own along with her. There is space allocated in this book specifically for YOU and YOUR beliefs, quotes, ideas, and growth. It is a good idea to get yourself two copies. One for writing in now and one for writing in later as you evolve and inspire yourself to grow ever-greater.
Category: Contemporary Women Writers, How To and Tips
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