Growing Together

Books We Write Together Create a Positive Impact In Our World

Creating stories together: uniting writers, authors, and People

🌞🌞 I was away for a week and did not write any articles on Medium. I enjoyed nature and family. I had fun in the sun, soaked in mineral waters, and embarked on a journey with the magic of the forests and mountains of New Mexico. I loved every minute.

🌞🌞I would like to say thank you to my amazing editors Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles, Dr. Preeti Singh, and Annelise Lords for keeping things going while I was gone. I have a lot of reading and responses to catch up on. I will get to your article as soon as I can. I try to read every article in Dancing Elephants Press.

🌞🌞Now, that I am back I knew an article is coming and I am never fully sure what will flow out of my fingertips when I sit down to write. A question popped into my head:

Why do we write?

🌞🌞I write to create stories, share my experiences, have fun, and build a community of like-minded people.

Why do you Write? Please do share with me.

🌞🌞For me writing is fun. I have a lot of stories and experiences in my head. It feels good to write my thoughts on paper or on the computer and share them with others.

It feels like the world is singing around me when I write. I can easily lose track of time and space and just write.

🌞🌞It is great to hear back from other people to find out how my thoughts are similar or different from their thoughts. It is always good to learn and hear ideas and experiences from others. I love the feedback from other writers and readers.

🌞🌞Today I checked how many responses I had written on Medium. I love this number. I have to share:

Will you be my 10,000th response? (after writing this article I found out that this number stays the same after 9,999).

🌞🌞In 2022 and 2023 I published 3 books under Dancing Elephants Press. The first book Darkness and Light is a story collection book from my writings and thoughts in 2021. The book contains most of the blogs I have written on the Medium platform in 2021. There are COVID stories, loss, grief, happiness, and joy as well as recipes. I am grateful to Dr Mehmet Yildiz and Dr. Preeti Singh for pre-reading this book and providing an introduction to the book.

🌞🌞After publishing this book and a few (5) before that included my stories I wanted to start publishing some books together with other authors.

Why?

Well, why not?

🌞🌞I love the community we have built-in Dancing Elephants Press and the community and support that exists between authors, writers, and readers on the Medium platform. I wanted to take the next step and offer something that I had not seen before. Lifting up collaboration and support for each other, for each other’s stories to a higher level.

🌞🌞I thought, well we are writing together on Medium. Why not write together to create books to show the world who we are? Stories on Medium have a life span. People generally do not go back and read stories that were published more than a month ago. It is time to create books from our stories.

🌞🌞Currently, I have over 540 stories I have written on Medium in the last 3 years. Some of the stories are now part of books, and they will live on. Now, if someone is interested in Wellness and Health they can pick up the amazing book we have written on Medium with 21 authors last year “Holistic Journey Toward Wellness” and if someone is interested in Joyfulness, Inspiration, and Spirituality they can pick up our book “The Joy of Life” written by 11 Medium authors and writers. The second book is 1/3rd of the first. Simply time, energy, and coordination were taken a toll with the first one.

🌞🌞I believe that our stories have a lot to offer to anyone picking up any of these books. The great thing about it is that you can just read one story when you have time or read all. With the fast pace of society, it is great to have books where you can just read a story in 5 minutes when you have time and hear someone’s experience.

Reading stories from across cross cultures, and cross countries is magical.

🌞🌞I love that people from Dancing Elephants Press responded to the call with open hearts and agreed to write a book together. Now, that we have 2 books out with amazing stories it is time to switch gears a little and take a poetry book. Our Poetry book “Moments of Eternity” is well underway toward publishing. I am waiting for a few more reviews to trickle in, working on the final touches, and hoping to put everything together by the end of this month or the beginning of next month.

🌞🌞I would like to say thank you to all the amazing writers, authors, and readers of Dancing Elephants Press and Medium for your kindness and support throughout our projects.

Thank you for being here. I see you. I hear your stories.

Thank you for reading,

Gabriella

Welcome a new DEP writer Erie Astin

“I am honored to write my first story for Dancing Elephants Press. My thoughts often tend toward darkness, so I’ve been searching for a way to turn my writing toward happiness and light. DEP prompts do just that.”

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🌞🌞Dancing Elephants Press Story collections Holistic Journey Toward Wellness (2022) and The Joy of Life (2023)written by Medium writers and Authors can be found on multiple online platforms.🌞🌞

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For Our Writers Thank you for being here with us at Dancing Elephants Press and helping send positivity out to the world.

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May Your Day Be Joyful.

🌞🌞Jan Sebastian 🖐👩‍🦰 I thought you might like this story.🌞🌞