Writing In the Language of the Soul!

I’m a selfish writer, I write mostly for myself but I’m willing to share most of my writing with everyone.  I am not dismissing the importance of the reader in my writing, the reader is always at the forefront of my mind when I write, but in all honesty, my writing could never satisfy a reader if it can’t satisfy me.  When I write, it’s important to me that I stay true to myself, that I write what I like to read, and that whether it is fiction or not I put elements of myself in it.

The thing about writing, for me, is that it’s just as important as breathing, it’s something that I must do, that I can’t stop doing even if I tried.  In a way it’s like endless therapy for me, it allows me to reach deep into the pit of my soul, find emotions that I have locked away there forever, pull them out and express them in my story though usually not verbatim but in its essence.  Every story that I’ve written so far has captured that type of personal emotion and/or feeling even though the stories themselves are fictitious.

An example of this would be the story Mercy Adams from my book, Heart Strings.  I’ve never been an orphan, and I’ve certainly never been adopted, but there was a time in my young life when feeling sorry for myself no doubt, I imagined that I had been adopted and that my natural parents would be coming for me soon, they never did because they were never real.  I just didn’t feel like I fit into my family back then and it was easier to just pretend that I really didn’t belong there.  Those feelings were stuffed deep inside me along with heavy emotions that accompanied them, and I eventually forgot about them but somehow, they festered every now and then, and I could fish them out as fuel for Mercy Adams.

I’ve written two books that way, The Flash Zone – A Collection of Short-Short Stories, and, Heart Strings – A Collection of Short Stories, and by all standards but my own, neither would be termed successful, although they are to me.  You see, it doesn’t matter to me that each book sold just enough copies to break even, what matters is that over a hundred people have purchased each of them and that they enjoyed them enough to give me great feedback.  I believe in the quality of my writing and of my stories, and I know that I could have sold more copies if I had the marketing skills needed for self-publishing, I am working on that as we speak.  There will be another book, and hopefully another after that, and I will keep writing, and publishing for as long as there is a breath in me, because that’s who I am, and what I do.  I am a writer dammit, I write!

Should you be into stories written from the heart which capture the human emotion, sometimes in a humorous way, sometimes in a gut wrenching way, then my books may be for you.  Links for ordering them in any format are available under the Books Tab of my Website https://lucrivet.ca/