Melanie Ifield's Blog: Writing with Illness - Posts Tagged "journey"

Today my new novel, a fictional biography of one woman’s journey into spiritual awareness, is available on Kindle. The paperback will be coming out within the next month.
Listening to Echoes of her Self , is written from the perspective of the heroine. She is never named in the book – I did this to allow anyone and everyone who cares to, to identify with the main character on their own level.
She is in her nineties and is looking back over her life and recounting how things transpired so she ended up where she is.
I've watched others struggle with spirituality and religion and explored aspects myself, so I wanted to write a book that encompassed much of what I've seen.
The main character, a woman of strong convictions (she doesn't start off strong, I can tell you!) came to me out of the blue with quite a lot to say about quite a lot of things!
She was impossible to ignore, so I wrote her story in a long stream of flashback, dividing the book into parts - The beginning which is in fact her old age, then I go to the start - when she was young, the middle and the end - which is back at the beginning again (old age).
It's written in a semi-biographical way, even though it is fictional and explores how she confronts her fears, her insecurities and the so-called wisdoms her father told her.
The greatest thing she overcomes is the feeling of being ordinary - and finding out just how wrong that was!
The idea being - no one is ordinary and we all have a story to tell about our lives, how we got to where we are and what has made us - us - along the way.