There are many negative stereotypes about writing, which are, unfortunately, common assumptions. We, however, have an alternative in the form of countless confirmations that choosing the path of authorship need not predetermine long-suffering, imminent failure, or perpetual pennilessness. The notion that writing and publishing a relevant literary work of art requires years or decades of self-inflicted misery is simply untrue.

These unwarranted misrepresentations can keep one’s burning desire to tell a story and share it with the world muffled and weak. In actuality, true emotional pain plagues those who believe there is a book inside of them, destined to be birthed, but not yet brought into the light of reality. Having NOT experienced the healing benefits of releasing their book, they bear the weight of frustration and inauthenticity.

Common literary education and training focuses exclusively on left-brain intellectualism. This overly critical perspective thwarts what would otherwise be a beautiful and natural process. The frustrated writer is then born.

Writing should be a comprehensive and holistic support system that opens participants to a free-flowing mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual state.

Writing should be embraced as an innate art form, supported and flowing naturally, with which you are able to harness the divine inspiration that has been nudging you all along. This will work for anyone with a desire — the young, the not-so-young, the educated, the not-so-educated, those with a preformed idea, those who have no idea where they are going, as well as the published and unpublished.

When in alignment with our divine inspiration and expression, when we are able to get and stay out of our own way, so-called “miracles” happen. Like the writing of a book in a weekend.