laurie27wsmith

Life itself is the greatest adventure, every day is a new beginning but we seem to be carrying the same old luggage. I could waffle here for hours about the stuff we drag through our lives but it wouldn’t change people’s ideas or their way of coping. All that luggage does contain a wealth of ideas to write about and given the inspiration it could be the platform you need to launch an idea or a story. I wonder just how many people do learn from the mistakes of others? I know we quickly learn the old chestnuts; stoves are hot, dogs bite, don’t walk in front of cars, etc. Although we all seem to make the same old mistakes throughout our lives, especially in relationships. I could never be called a referee for the marital problems of others, dangerous territory. It would be somewhere in the vicinity of middle east peace talks. I have found that love for another person can make you a better person, hang on I’m waffling; writing that’s where we were.

I know that dredging the mind for those tiny nuggets of memory and experience, can be quite rewarding. I have a knack for dialogue, perhaps it’s because I haven’t shut up since I started talking, or just maybe contrary to popular belief I’ve listened more than people thought I did. Either way I have the tools to make something of my writing adventures. At this stage I’m spewing out a couple of crime novels, one is in the final stages of editing, another halfway through and the third is presently simmering away in the story cauldron. Poetry is a way for me to express a lot of feelings that don’t seem to translate to a novel, not yet anyway. I find I have to actually sit down and write it, for the feelings to flow, a novel seems to live between my fingers and the keyboard.

When I find the time I will begin compiling my experiences as a psychic/medium of some measure, ( modesty forbids from saying more).  A treasure  trove of stories paranormal are waiting patiently in line. That’s why writing is an adventure for me; just unlock the mind, walk through the door marked, The Past and switch on the spellchecker.

Laurie.