Writing Is An Expression Of The Heart By Vidya Math

On The Table Read Magazine, “the best entertainment eBook magazine UK“, Vidya Math shares how writing is a deeply personal journey, a reflection of the soul, and why she is inspired by the idea that her stories can resonate with others, offering comfort, joy, and a sense of understanding. 

 

Written by Vidya Math

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Writing is an expression of the heart and the heart is influenced by everything around and within us. 

Inspiration To Write

What inspires me to write is the thought that sharing the stories that form in my heart will touch my readers’ hearts in a meaningful way and help them to feel there is someone out there who understands them at times when they may feel alone. I also write to bring humour and joy as well as make people excited about the story I have written, so they have something to look forward to and resonate with. 

My creative writing process often starts with the sudden thought of a story that has formed in my mind – I can see the characters and know their names, where they live and what is happening in their lives and also the importance of why I should write the story. For example, I may suddenly see a world open up inside my mind and the story that I see there is so exciting and meaningful that I know I must capture it as it will fascinate others.

It is easy to get carried away and forget that while writing is a wonderful and blessed process and that the inspiration to write is a gift, it is also an energy-intensive process – both in terms of time, physically and emotionally. When one is working on a book, one often needs to live and breathe the book, which can mean it comes at a cost to social life or making sure our needs are met without exhausting ourselves.

I usually only realise how intensive it has been to write a book when I come to the end of writing it and suddenly feel like a mountain has been lifted off my shoulders, but I also usually burst into tears because I know I am going to miss the characters a lot and miss living in their world. During the writing of a book, the author feels all the characters’ emotions and this can take quite a toll too, without us realising it.

Next Stage

Then the proofreading starts and you know, that is pretty much as intensive as writing the book in the first place. One has to be conscious of not over-riding the original essence of the book and try to remember that proofreading is just to check for e.g. grammar mistakes etc., but it can be so tempting to re-write some (or a lot) of what you’ve written in the first draft and this is ok, but it might be best to share the writing with a trusted friend or family member before taking an axe to your initially inspired work. For example, there is one book I was writing that was kind of new to me because it was the first one in a new series.

The other two series I had written books for previously were deeply embedded in my heart and I felt at one with them, but this new book was very different in every way to the previous books and I started to question whether the book was even worth writing. 

Sharing The Book

So, I showed it to my sister (I wouldn’t normally do this until a book is complete), but in this case, I needed a second opinion. My sister loves all of my books, but her reaction to this particular book really took me aback. She loved it so much and was so excited about reading the next chapter I would write. To date, it is her favourite book. I also read out the first chapter of this book to a friend and he ended up sitting on the edge of his seat as he was so eager to know what came next. And yet another friend who read the first chapter had the same reaction.

By then, I was also getting comfortable with the new book and loving it myself, but it helped a lot to have help from loved ones in abating any insecurities I had about the book. It was a curious and unexpected insecurity that I had not felt with the four books I had written prior to that one. Anyway, even now, if I catch sight of a paragraph from that particular book, I just get hooked and can’t stop reading it so I have no idea why I felt insecure when the book first started coming to my mind, for writing – I guess it’s just because it was such a different type of book to what I  had written before.

Additionally, this book was more daring and perhaps I hadn’t associated myself with being that daring a writer or perhaps I felt a little shy to be that daring. 

Publication Process

In terms of publication, I was delighted that the first book (and the books since) were accepted by a publisher for publication. With that comes a whole load of stress and extra work that every published author must go through. For example, the publisher knows better than the author what type of book cover would sell a book, but it might be hard for the author to accept. Publication can take a long time – you have to proofread the book several times and write a blurb (I’m a writer and blessed to be able to write books, but, oh, writing a blurb flummoxes me).

You also have to assess the book cover options and decide how you are going to respond. After the experience of the book cover design process for the first book, I felt it would be better to send photos to my publisher for the second and third books, for them to base the cover designs on. This has worked well. 

And at publication time, as an author, you have to start a lot of marketing (which was new too), so I underwent a learning process on how to market my books; that learning process is still underway and my little sister is a great resource for ideas on this as she is more worldly-wise than I am and it seems like she has a marketing plan of her own 😊 .

My wish for my books is that they find the people who need them and vice versa.

I am grateful to have been blessed to write and hope in my heart that I will continue to have the opportunity to do so.

Find more from Vidya Math now:

Paperback: https://amzn.to/3NMOK8G

Book information: https://olympiapublishers.com/book/the-luminosity-of-crystals-dimensions-of-the-heart

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vidya.math.1?locale=en_GB

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