For those, we cross paths with

This reader fills the pages of my book with their thoughts routinely.

In mere moments when I felt to bind all my pieces together into a collection, my thoughts were in favour of the potential reader ahead. Where they are in their journey, for what they are seeking, and the discoveries they have encountered that have awoken new views upon their eyes. They would be a parcel of my own being, a parcel relating deeply to the core within themselves and mine.

Every time I cross paths with beings in such a way, it strengthens the momentum of why I even published in the first place, for my thoughts had laid heavily on how When Words Flow could connect with the reader in their journey.

On my first Market, just after I set up my booth, appeared a youthful adult from the States who had been backpacking through BC and making way to follow that adventure back across the border. It only took them a first glance of my banner and book to grab a copy of their own to accompany them on the adventures ahead. 

Since that moment, this reader has connected with me on Instagram. Sharing how they peak through the pages every day, journaling their own reflections on the pages of When Words Flow, and uttering how they feel that there is a purpose to why we have crossed paths. 

This is what makes being an Author ever more treasurable, for the journey of the reader in their lives. 

Finding Your Why to Writing

1) Empathize

Listen closely to how others feel throughout the phases of their lives and how it compels feelings of your own, utilize that resource as a connection to readers within your writing. Your ability to grasp leaves your hands filled with a knowing you can best identify and characterize with allowing for your words to speak directly to them.

2) Ruminate

As much importance it is to listen to your surroundings and welcome the twist of an everyday emotive wave of the masses, it is equally treasurable to dive within the density of your own aliveness. Here you not only visit the present comings knocking at the doors of your emotions and thoughts—you rummage through those you packed from some time in the past. These introspections awaken the empathy for yourself allowing a more intuitive process to feel the 'why' in your writing.

3) Enthuse

An opener to all of the cans you have stored your feelings is the spark of passion. This enthusiasm welcomes the hardest bones to convert as blood pumping through your heart. Collect what you love such as subjects you naturally sync to the rhythms of and the ideas that flicker in the moments. As you row through the open canal of your passions, your writing drifts to steered directions.

Which of the three do you feel needs to be attended to?