Writing is like...

My good friend and fellow author Jason McIntyre has asked me to continue this blog meme... You can read his blog about what writing is like, here: The Farthest Reaches

Well, how do I follow that?

Jason is a very talented writer, I would say he has a gift. As many of you already know, I wrote Cutting The Fat with him as an online novel on BestsellerBound.com last year. It was a fun experience and it definitely made me realise that he is a top notch author. Try reading one of his books and you'll fall for the magic too.

Here goes, I shall attempt to describe what writing is like...

Writing is like walking into a movie theatre and having a choice as to what happens up there on the big screen... it’s exhilarating, exhausting, and it takes you away to places you never thought you’d go. It’s exciting. The way I write is by having a brief outline of what my novel will be about and then I start writing and the story flows as I go along. I create the characters and they will then direct me as to what should happen based on what type of person they are and what happened to them in their journey of life. Writing is like reading someone’s secret diary and finding out all their secrets and sharing them with the world... it’s only when you read over the finished product that writers will realise that those little secrets you are sharing are most often your own... Our subconscious mind is responsible for creativity and it also hoards a lot of information about our pasts. It’s all stored away there like old belongings in boxes in an attic that you just don’t want to get rid of. Some of the boxes have fun items which translate into the more humourous portions of the book, some of the boxes have been sealed because we’d rather not look back there, but sometimes if we take a peek, we can find that writing about it can somehow help us to deal with the darker memories. These usually translate to the more dramatic aspects of our writing.
Writing is a solitary experience but with all the characters in our heads and the stories overflowing in our imaginations writers are never really alone.
Writing is like baring your soul to the public, hanging your laundry out for all to see. The great Paulo Coelho once said, “Writing books is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public”. Many writers will relate to that statement.

Now, I have to ask some of my fellow authors to continue this meme. I choose:

Quentin R. Bufogle because he is so funny and I know I'm just going to love his blog post about this :)

Jen Knox because I'm currently reading her collection of short stories and am mesmerised by her talent

Joel Blaine Kirkpatrick because I know he will come up with a spellbinding blog post.