Thoughts Become Books

Thoughts Really Do Become Books

I truly believe writing a book is a thought process in print.

It’s an idea that comes to life. It’s a moment where you might see something, feel something or do something and you think to yourself - what if?

It is then and only then that a thought starts to become a real book. The thought becomes obsessive. It builds, it layers and it eventually becomes a moment where you think - this will make a good book.

Let's step back.

My first real book was written after a turbulent couple of years. Divorce, bankruptcy and a loss of faith in all things. The whole process took my mind and thoughts to a place I could have never imagined,

After endless reflection and alone time in California of all places, I began to put down onto paper what I had been thinking for the past few years.

My main thought was life isn’t really what it actually is.

What that meant to me was that everything I had been told about the perfect life and what the perfect life should be hadn’t happened for me or anyone I knew. I felt like a manufactured fabrication.

So I made a decision to write my first book based on how I was feeling and thinking.  That book was titled Escape From Zoomanity which I have mentioned before in these blogs.

The whole thought about humanity being zoomanity  - human being a zooman had taken over my thinking.

So I started to write about this and that was my first book. It was amazing how everything I had been thinking about felt like it just rolled out and kept on rolling out and onto paper.

I found the process exciting and not laboured which I found strange because I had been told so many times how tough it can be to write a book.

The key really was to think, digest, reflect, pull together, pull apart, relive, feel and construct those thoughts. In other words, I knew what it was that I wanted to write rather than sit at a blank screen and try and write my book.

So in other words - the writing of a new book starts with a thought. Your book is simply an expression of what you have been thinking about.

So writing your book  - thinking - doesn’t and should not begin in front a of your computer if begins in your mind. The computer is just a tool for you to write.

Think it through before you do anything.

Your Writing Mentor

Alan Forrest Smith