Like a baby in my dreams, this book was. When I was 9 I planned to be a writer. I only remember that because I answered a quiz at the end of a story and when faced with the question what do you want to be? I kept thinking a lot and the only answer was " A writer".
Immersed in work, and life as we usually know it, the dream was gone, the pen was useless and practicallity was all over the place :)
Untill I studied coaching and dreams sort of re-incarnated...thoughts filled my head and emotions sprung from my heart and I started writing and talking ...
Then Reem came and told me while we were working "Why dont you write a book, honestly?" and I could not shove it off so easily
Then, I sat at a cafe writing some notes to myself and looked up and here it was; a message in big bold font "Why don' you write a book?" that was the name of the book on the shelf above me!!
Then I got some coaching on the book, but my fears were stronger. What if they dont like it? What if it is not important? What if what I want to share has been shared before? What if nobody cares? And then I thought "If I write I book, it must be something awesome" and that was another restriction I put on myself. I thought it had to be an invention...and that paralysed me.
Then I met an online marketing guy "Mito" who was very helpful and we passionately started talking about our passions :) and I said " Who will read a book in English in Egypt and who might be interested in those ideas about love, life and happiness and stuff like that?" and he showed me a book of a friend of his, with the same description!
Eman, my friend, then decided to publish her first book of poetry! and encouraged me to move on...She wanted to show me how doable that was!!! and later she revised my blogs and gave me her comments and checked the spelling when I could not check anymore...
And somehow in the middle of this was the blog, dont even know how I created it and I started writing and writing and could not stop.
The publisher Amani whom I contacted, called me back and another part of the journey started.
Talks with Moushira, my friend inspired me, fed my soul so that I had to rush back and write.
Friends from NLP distributed the blog to others. Other Friends shard on fb and commented. Some critiqued the blogs with me leading to enriching discussions... others loved me through them...
You, gentle readers have viewed the page, gave me comments that inspired me and encouraged more than you could imagine. Knowing that someone out there finds a feeling or a word or an experience that is akin to him and can relate to my expression of it were wings for me!
And there are so many to thank...and so much to be grateful for!
And one final thing, please do check my page on facebook about the book. It is called the Yellow Raincoat (Not Justin Biber's song and I did not take it from him :) and tell me what you think...
May GRATITUDE AND LOVE cuddle you tonight.
Immersed in work, and life as we usually know it, the dream was gone, the pen was useless and practicallity was all over the place :)
Untill I studied coaching and dreams sort of re-incarnated...thoughts filled my head and emotions sprung from my heart and I started writing and talking ...
Then Reem came and told me while we were working "Why dont you write a book, honestly?" and I could not shove it off so easily
Then, I sat at a cafe writing some notes to myself and looked up and here it was; a message in big bold font "Why don' you write a book?" that was the name of the book on the shelf above me!!
Then I got some coaching on the book, but my fears were stronger. What if they dont like it? What if it is not important? What if what I want to share has been shared before? What if nobody cares? And then I thought "If I write I book, it must be something awesome" and that was another restriction I put on myself. I thought it had to be an invention...and that paralysed me.
Then I met an online marketing guy "Mito" who was very helpful and we passionately started talking about our passions :) and I said " Who will read a book in English in Egypt and who might be interested in those ideas about love, life and happiness and stuff like that?" and he showed me a book of a friend of his, with the same description!
Eman, my friend, then decided to publish her first book of poetry! and encouraged me to move on...She wanted to show me how doable that was!!! and later she revised my blogs and gave me her comments and checked the spelling when I could not check anymore...
And somehow in the middle of this was the blog, dont even know how I created it and I started writing and writing and could not stop.
The publisher Amani whom I contacted, called me back and another part of the journey started.
Talks with Moushira, my friend inspired me, fed my soul so that I had to rush back and write.
Friends from NLP distributed the blog to others. Other Friends shard on fb and commented. Some critiqued the blogs with me leading to enriching discussions... others loved me through them...
You, gentle readers have viewed the page, gave me comments that inspired me and encouraged more than you could imagine. Knowing that someone out there finds a feeling or a word or an experience that is akin to him and can relate to my expression of it were wings for me!
And there are so many to thank...and so much to be grateful for!
And one final thing, please do check my page on facebook about the book. It is called the Yellow Raincoat (Not Justin Biber's song and I did not take it from him :) and tell me what you think...
May GRATITUDE AND LOVE cuddle you tonight.
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