The journey of writing is both personal and intimate. Writing is you and I, our lives, our stories, our triumphs and our pains. Writing is someone looking at your soul. Writing can heal, it can discover, it can ask or answer questions. Writing is real. Writing is bold and timid at the same time. Writing enters the world of parrells, contrasts, sights, sounds and colors.

Writing is naked, like a newborn baby, pure, innocent, hungry and driven by instinct. Sometimes we write as though our life depends on it...sometimes it does.

The journey of self transformation through our writing takes us down streets that we've never seen, we visit cities that we know nothing about. We swim through oceans, climb mountains, cross deserts, wander in fields and slash through jungles, all with the power of the pen.

The transformation is powerful, emotional and extremely private. We are reborn, renewed and refreshed through our writing, gaining a new sense of excitment, comfort and understanding. We lose ourselves as we create through words. Words transformed from simple letters to an art form. Poof! Our words suddenly have meaning, meaning takes on strength, strength takes on courage and curage opens the door for transformation.

Our world continues. We create time, we create order, we simply create. Something happens, something wonderful and marvelous begins to emerge. Our stories come alive as form takes on life and we laungish, gleefully watching as the letter spill out onto the paper,coming up for the deep recesses of our character. Then, just like that...we are in the midst of self transformation.

Now that you understand the metamorphosis of the transformation process, let me tell you how to transform. It's quite simple, it's all about developing and nuturing good writing practices. Here are some of the most important practices that you can adopt to create your self transformation.

Face your doubts and fears, so that you can start to overcome them. Make and remake the commitment to write. Don't make excuses for not writing. Even if you have trouble keeping your commitment, don't stop, just keep writing.

Author's Bio: 

Deborah Bellis is the president of Reflections Publishing, Inc, a partnership publishing house in California. She is a professional ghostwriter, editor and host of the popular tv show, "Reflections Presents" She is a contributing author to Chicken Soup for the African American Soul, and a facilitator of Reflections Creative Writers Workshops.