All about Brigitt

byBrigitteMi

182 followers

8 years ago

Okay, so each time I have gone on a writing site, I've been asked to talk about myself, and how I got into the writing industry. I have always loved writing, probably since I learned to write. To me, it's like therapy. Once I begin to write, it just flows, and any stress that's in me, magically disappears!

Not knowing how profitable writing could be, I just blew it off. In second grade, I won 2nd place prize for a poem I wrote in honor of Martin Luther King, and what he stood for. While I was proud of that accomplishment, that was just it: An Accomplishment. Over the years, I had always wrote little notes of poetry, just to hear how well it sounded when I read it out loud.

Fast forward to college, September, 1987, freshman year, I was a shy student who wasn't in any way prepared for college. To make things even worse, I was going to a Private school! I did find solace in my literary class. That seemed to be very therapeutic for me. I did very well in a class that is asking for my writing talent. While I soared in that class, college was not for me at all.

Having a roommate who was a sophomore, who had been there the year previously, so she was already well known. I've never been away from home, and I was homesick and miserable. At the end of my freshman year, I went home, never to return to that school again.

By the end of the summer, I had a job that paid very, so I decided to take a break from going to school. For that short time, I enjoyed the money I was making, but I missed school. Six months later, I returned to a Community College, in a far more relaxed situation.

At this Community College, I took another literary class, and I was not under pressure. In fact, I got along with the entire class and the teacher. We had writing discussions, and wrote plays of our choosing. By the end of this class, one of my classmates asked if he could use a play that I wrote on sexual harassment in the office. Proudly, a deal was made.

Years later, going through life, writing was my therapy. While I still had the passion for writing, I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis. Over time, walking became more and more difficult. I found out that the Neurologists simply STUDY the disease, they aren't living it. Through all of my emotional turmoil, I had to get a grasp on my life, and realize that I was in control of my life, my disease, my health.

This is when I did some serious soul searching, and found my faith. No only did I get closer to God, I learned to have a new patience for myself. I then began to write a book. I've never finished a book before, but I have started several. This book, Love Comes In Circles, I am especially proud of, because I purposely kept it to my self.

It took me ten years to write it, and it sold well to my neighbors and friends, I won a 2nd place honorable mention for a poem that I wrote, Black Sky Rain", it took me all of five minutes to write. I blew it off when they notified me of my winnings for this contest. I ignored it, because I just couldn't believe that anyone would like anything that I wrote!

Things have changed since I've written that book. I have become a wife and mother of two. I am no longer young and spontaneous as I used to be. I am a writer, a published writer. I haven't dealt with SEOs, and other search engines. I haven't built any websites, or funneled any pages. I simply love to write and tell stories. My motto is, I am writing for your reading pleasure! I like to see the smiles on readers faces when reading my stories. I've got more stories to tell!