You have heard of sleep walking, You have heard of talking in ones sleep, there is even grinding ones
teeth, which is quite annoying if your in the same room as the one doing the grinding, lately due to sleeping
enhancing medication a new form of sleep disorders have come to surface, yet I am unsure of a new sleep
condition unheard of.Quite a new phenomenon in my life, sleep writing. In the past year I wake every morning
to a new piece of writing, waiting for me on the night stand. It takes some time to transcribe it being that my
handwriting in my waken state is hard enough to read, imagine what it looks like in the sleeping state?
In 2000 I was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, Fibromyalsia, and arthritis, depression and anxiety
coupled with the inability to sleep. Needless to say I am taking many different medications for my illnesses, one
in which is a sleep aide that has many simelarties as ambian, all the weirdness in all. I have been on them for
around 18 months, the weirdness seems to have been in stages.
The first stage being amnesia of the night before, just after taking the medication, then come the loss of
balance, we have all heard of the effects of driving, eating and having sex without knowing it, been there done
that. Over the long period on this sleep aide all of those symptoms have subsided, leaving me with this new stage
of writing. It is not nessessarly a bad thing since writing is my passion.
Poetry being my primary love as my
sleep writing is all poetic. I have been writing poetry for 30 years,
in 1991 I had the fortune of being inducted into the International Poetry Hall of Fame, and have won
many awards for my love of poetry: Golden Poet of the Year in 1988 - 1990 and 1997, I have earned award Merits
of Mention from 1990 , 1991 and 1992. While an award winning poem sits in a formatted frame by the
International Library of Poetry and recently has been awarded two consecutive silver cups.
April 2006 I was nominated and won the honor of being National poetry ambassador for 2006. I
managed to make one of my dreams come true, after searching for 10 years for a publisher who would actually
pay me for my work, Publish America was found from a simple on-line search. I submitted my poetry in
November 2005 and began my journey.
From struggling hopeful writer to a full fledge Author, "Prose From Within" was born in a
few short months. March 18 was my debut as I set out to become a know author, It was a matter of wrong place
wrong time as I booked a signing of my dream in my local grocery store, it was planned to be a coming out too
but turned into a flop, the room was above the Zhers shopping store in what they call the community room, I
contacted newspapers and news stations in my community, to my dismay it was not enough to make the birth of
Prose a big enough deal, although I was features in the local paper and on the local cable channel.
I managed to only sell a few books to family members. I do plan to continue to carry on and trunge the
markets to gain the celebrassy I crave, I am only at the beginning of my journey. "Prose from Within" hit shelves
in book stores all across Canada and the United States, It can be purchased directly through
publishamerica.com
under the search, type in the book title.
"It is easier to put pen to paper then to speak out loud. As she goes through every days trials, loves and heartaches and tribulations, rids her of these minute to minute tears. And when allot of my new poetry is written in my sleep its all still pretty amazing" .
Nancy Love Laing.
