How do you write a book when you hate writing and prefer pictures?

What stops you from writing?  Is it the fact that you actually have to write?

I love words.  I’m a word junkie.  I can’t remember learning to read and seem to have fallen into it without any problem at all.  And I was brought up on radio not TV and they say the pictures are better on radio.

So though I’m much stronger on words I do like pictures and like most children I probably started off with picture books. And that’s fine for children when there aren’t many words in their books. 

But what happens when you grow up and the world seems to have so many words in it that they overwhelm you?  Even with adult comics there are still acres of words out there.

Now with most word processing programs these days you have sophisticated forms of grammar and spell checking tools.  And I know more than one person who manages to hide their fear of words, by using the tools. 

I had a boss once who was dyslexic and used to run his letters past me before he sent them out.  It was a bit of challenge sometimes because he had a very individual way of putting things and I never was quite sure if he meant to use a word that looked odd to me.

He developed his own strategies for not having to deal with the words too much and I’ve met other word phobics who have their ways of dealing with the challenge. It’s said that’s why dyslexics are often innovative because they have to find new solutions that work for them.

What happens though if you know you should write a book?  Maybe people keep saying “oh that’s so good you need to put it in a book”.  Telling them you’re too busy at the moment to tackle it is one way.  Or saying it’s not quite ready to be in a book yet.  Or even better is “I’m working on it”.

“I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.”

Stephen Wright

Well you know there’s a lot of computer technology out there that can make life much easier for you.  I’m about to launch out into using voice recognition software.  For me it’s more about saving myself from RSI than anything else.  But as a tool for avoiding the problems of too much typing it could work for you.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that if you want to write a book enough, we can find a solution for you whatever your challenges.