Okay, so last week I didn’t really explain why I have named my blog ‘Twisted world of words’ but I’m here to clear up a few things…although it is possible after this post it may be as clear as mud but I’ll give it a go.

My brain seems to work in a different way than most people. YES REALLY. Hehehe I’m sure you haven’t guessed that yet!

As well as being exceptionally happy all the time (I have been told that I am tooooooo cheery), thoughts are always zapping around my head…and I do mean ZAP! My brain never rests. It is always jumping from one thought to the next in speedy succession. While they are leaping, they twist and turn too!!!

I will often stop in the middle of a conversation and say ‘Oh that reminds me I need to do xyz’ before getting back on track again. Although my darling husband and kids (oh let’s not limit it to just them. Add my entire family and friends too) have always been well aware of this particular trait of mine, sometimes they will stare at me for a second then shake their heads and ask me how I got from the topic at hand to a thought so not related to the conversation.

Here is an example:

Me: ‘The cows in the yard next door were mooing really loudly this morning. I wonder what…Oh, remind me I need to research about that motorbike for the book later…so anyway, I wonder what all the commotion was about.’

Husband (silent for a second. I can see him try to link it together before he sighs): ‘Okay, I give up. I tried to find any path possible but I cannot work out how you got from cows to motorbikes.’

Me (biting lip and thinking backward then forward between motorbikes to cow topic): Ummmm…well when I mentioned mooing cows, I thought about Norman the cow out of City Slickers movie, then about rain coats (rain slickers), then about the bright neon vests road workers wear, then about vehicles on the road and finally I arrived at motorbikes.’

At the end I look up and give him a massive smile. I’m usually very pleased I have worked out the inner workings of my thoughts.

He takes a deep breath (sometimes when my twisting thought process has gone through over ten different links he also closes his eyes as if he is praying for guidance as to how to handle the conversation) and laughs at me. ‘You never fail to surprise me with your creativity and imagination,’ he says.

And I think that sums it all up really…I write the way I do because of the way my brain works. I might come up with a topic but once my head gets hold of it and twists it this way and that, knots it four times then turns it around another time just for good measure, it ends up way more creative than I could have ever started with.

So readers, be warned. You are entering my twisted world of words…feel free to come along on the journey!