About

Beisan’s Burble

When I was eight years old, I was crying hysterically over a friend having to move away for good. I was experiencing my first (certainly, not last!) anxiety attack. I curled up beneath an airplane blanket my mother took from a KLM flight we had just taken to visit my eldest sister. Each time someone touched me, they got electrified from the static. No one understood why I was taking a normal situation such as a friend moving to heart, especially at an age where I was supposed to grow out of things pretty fast. I didn’t understand how they could normalize not seeing someone ever again due to them moving to a different continent, or worse, due to growing up. After three days of despair, my sister called my parents from Boston and asked to talk to me. She said, “Read. That’s the only thing that will help you. Jump into different stories.”

For ten years, I never put a book down. My grades in school were not the best because I couldn’t part from novels. The power of words healed me. I became close to all of my English literature teachers and professors.

I started writing from a young age – on and off – years would pass until I learned to share what I write for myself with others.

That’s when I started having friends, family and even random colleagues ask me to help them with their social media content, brand stories, letters, speeches, and such. I have been writing and ghostwriting for clients for a couple of years now and although it has been a financial struggle, nothing makes me happier than to wake up with a cup of coffee and write in the voice of someone I dove great depths for to understand.

I hope this writing blog gives you a glimpse of the kaleidoscopic depth of stories and simplified thoughts. I hope it serves as a manual for survival, laughter, and a zoom into the remnants of abandoned passing thoughts. I look forward to hear your thoughts through email, and to perhaps have you as a client and write through you, in your voice, for you.

Beisan A. AlShafei