Hello there my few readers that I have, I want to talk to you today about dreams. No, not the type that you get when you close your eyes and go to sleep, instead I want to talk about the kind that you have when you are growing up. Yes, those dreams like being a firefighter or astronaut.
When I was growing up I had dreams, big dreams, small dream and average dreams just like I imagine every kid has. I wanted to grow up to be a multitude of things ranging from policeman to ballerina to gymnast to archeologist to musician to published author… The list could go on and on. Of those dreams I have accomplished some, though not necessarily to the degree that I desired, but the point is I have accomplished them. I have been an officer of the law. I have been a musician. I have even been published twice with my poetry, though sadly no novels have been published yet.
The point I guess that I am getting at is that there are dreams that were and/or are obtainable as long as I worked toward them. Now obviously, some of the dreams I had when growing up were clearly impossible short of the existence of magic or extreme advances in science. Those dreams I have had to come to terms with at they will never be anything more than just dreams but, the dreams I have that can be achieved I still work and strive toward. One of those dreams, to become a published author or rather novelist, is very achievable as long as I keep at it.
Now when I was young the dream was simply to write a novel and get it published. Now I didn’t know about self-publishing when I was young and therefor that didn’t work into the dream. Now that dream has expanded and grown as I have gotten older, now I know exactly by how and by who I want to be published. Not to knock people who self-publish, but I do not think that self-publishing is for me, at least not at this point in my life. I still want to sell the rights to my novels and be published by professional publishing companies, in particular Baen, Pyr or Tor.
I hold this dream close to my heart and hope that one day I make it a reality… That is all, that is all that this post is about. Sorry if you found it disappointing but I just wanted to share that piece of me with you, my very few yet regular readers. I hope that life finds you well and that many of your dreams will become reality for you too.
