My dream...

is to some day write a book, and get the gull to send it to a publisher.
This is something I think about on a daily basis. I love books. I love words. I love emotions. I love it when a book...when WORDS on a page...can make me laugh or cry or read so fast I can hardly flip the pages fast enough.
I love it when I tell myself, 'I'll go to bed after this chapter' and then decide, no...one more chapter, over and over until I can hardly keep my eyes open.
I love all kinds of books. Mainly, I love fiction.
I read, "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" in one lazy afternoon/evening. It is a great book! And that is how I read my books. So hard and so fast that I won't forget a single thing.
The problem with me and reading is, I read too fast, and then I'm left with nothing else to read. My library is too small, and the only copies they have of the new releases are booked out for months. I certainly couldn't afford my reading habit if I bought new books every week. So, I'm left to gobble up any book I come across.
I have so many ideas going through my head when it comes to writing.
I've written a few childrens stories. And I think they are pretty good! I've written a very short fiction story that is dear to me also.
I am going to start working on a novel idea that I just came up with.
The problem is, even after I start writing...even after I'm proud of my work. I STILL don't send it in to publishers! Why? GOOD question! Its not that I'm afraid of rejection, because I tell you right now, I will frame my first rejection letter. I will be so proud that someone IN the industry took the time to read my work. Even if they hated it! They still took the time to send the letter out to me.
I will be proud of that letter.
Maybe I'm afraid of what would happen if it DID work out.
Or maybe I'm just afraid to even imagine it working out.
The thing is, why pursue something with your whole heart if you think its not going to work out? That is why I want to give it my all and pray for the best!!
If someone decided it was their dream to become a nurse or a musician, or a teacher...you'd tell them, 'go to school and learn all you can and then BECOME you're dream!'
What do you tell someone who wants to write?
How about WRITE! Write all you can and then write some more!
My goal, start writing...today!
And EVERY day!
Find the niche I'm comfortable writing in, and go for it!