Lemonada.

Hi, it's Elise Loonan, host of Pulling the Thread.

Today's episode is just me, answering some of your questions about writing books,

the creative process, and even ghost writing.

Thank you. books, the creative process, and even ghost writing. Hi, it's Elise Lunan, host of pulling the thread. On this show, we pull apart the web in which we all live to understand

who we are and why we're here. My hope is that these conversations spark moments of resonance

and plant tiny seeds of awareness so that we might all collectively learn and grow.

All right, friends.

A few months ago, I wrote a substack an answer to one of the most frequent questions that I get,

which is in some variation,

I want to write a book.

Can you give me any advice about the process? And yes, I can absolutely

give advice about the process. I'll link to this substack in the show notes. But I wanted to

talk about it first as a bit of a philosophical question rather than just a practical one because it's so interesting

to me, and I say this with both joy and real curiosity as someone who is a massive reader, obviously, and has been my entire life.

I credit the veracity with which I would read books to both my older brother, who read all

the time and modeled that for me.

That was really the way to hang out with him was to sit and read as well.

My brother, coincidentally, became

the publisher of a book imprint, he's a book editor. And also that it's what my parents really

prized and prioritized. And they were not particularly indulgent, although it's easy to look at my childhood and say,

wow, you really had a good deal. I really did. I mean, we had horses, and we lived at the base of a

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