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Achieving Your Writing Dreams

What do you want from your writing? Do you dream of being a poet, curled up in front of a fireplace with your notebook? Or maybe teaching a group of young writers? Perhaps you’re like me and want to write novels for a living. You dream of sitting in your office, coffee at hand, pecking away at your keyboard, creating characters and worlds your readers are dying to read about.

Think about what you want for a few minutes. Will you quit your day job? Work at home? Will you have an office or continue working wherever you work now? What will your day be like? Will you sleep in, or will you rise early and greet the day at your computer?

Think hard about your ideal writing career. Make some notes, or write a journal entry about it. What will THE CALL be like, the one where an agent calls to say that yes, you’ve been published? Imagine how that’s going to feel, how excited you’ll be.

Now take a deep breath for one more question.

What have you done today to bring yourself closer to the writing dream you just imagined?

The truth of the matter is that the dream will remain only a dream unless we work to bring it about. I have to remind myself of this almost daily. It’s not enough to dream or plan, I have to do something to make it happen.

Do you have a novel languishing, crying out for your attention? Queries you’ve been meaning to mail? A poem or article to finish? Whatever it is, stop surfing (and reading this blog!!) and spend some time right now working on it. Don’t go to bed until you’ve done something to bring your dreams about.

And do it again tomorrow, and the next day, and so on.

If you’re like me, there’ll be days when you don’t manage to do anything, but over time, those days become fewer and fewer.