What Agatha Christie, Vince Flynn, and Ann Rice Have in Common

They're all writers.  Well, not just writers.  They're all FAMOUS writers.  And all three of them are/were dyslexic.

So how can a dyslexic person be a successful writer?  Isn't dyslexia when someone has problems with reading and writing?

Before the age of computers with that awesome spell-check button and the auto-correct function, I would spell words so badly that I coudn't find them in the dictionary.  But I'm a writer, too, and I love writing.  It doesn't seem to make any sense, the fact that I have problems reading someone else's stories, yet I can write my own.

It's sort of like loving to play music when you can't read it.  There's that huge barrier called THE SCORE.  But, once I've translated the score into keyboard patterns, then everything opens up, because I'm re-creating the music now instead of trying to read it.

Just like I'm okay when I'm on the creating side of story-telling, especially with the spell-checks and auto-corrects (most of the time, anyway).  But I have to read a book a half-dozen times before I really start "seeing" the story, and remembering what I've read.  Once I can "see" the story the author has written, then I've got it.  But I have to sort of re-create it in my mind.

A dyslexic writer.  A dyslexic musician.  Both seem so ... what's the word?  Contradictory?  Oxymoronic?  My life would be oh so much easier if dyslexia had specific boundaries.  Unfortunately, not only is dyslexia invisible, it's is a chameleon.