I often get asked about what my writing process is like. The honest answer is:
Good question…
I self-published my book “No One Dies From Love”. It came out like fire as I was in the midst of many life changes: divorce, separating from the military, finding a job, moving across the country, grieving the passing of my grandmother. I wrote most of the initial drafts in the Notes app on my iPhone, my fingers furious clicking around to capture my feelings in their word form.
Since then – now that life has settled – I’m finding my process in the flux of change. I still have those moments where I furiously type in a new area of the Notes app (titled “Aftergrowth”). I also have those moments like this one, where I’m sitting at my personal computer trying to explain to an imaginary friend what my writing process is like.
It’s more of a feeling.
If I feel something, or think about something, and it stays, I take that as a sign to write.
(An added bonus is that writing it down removes that something from the confines of the body, which can be so helpful in working through heartbreak.)
