Incredible things are on the horizon in my future and I’m grateful for the path that has led me here. So many of us travel through great lengths, jump through nearly impossible hoops, and barely crawl over those high set hurdles. We think that there’s never an end in sight, or that if there is this so-called light at the end of the tunnel, that we may never reach it. However, I’m seeing, finally after a long while that the light is there, and it is something that can be reached. Goals are set, and so frequently they get pushed aside or away completely for life. Because plans hardly ever get accomplished as we expect them to, just as an outline to a book where the characters are taking charge. Page one of those plans gets tossed out the window, because something new has been placed in front of us to get over before we can even start. That’s how it has felt for a long while now for me, anyway. In 2011, I had a dream…yes really; a dream. It was the beginning phase of this novel I’ve been working on since then. I’ve been writing all my life. Poems started it off, a way to get emotions off my chest. And then from there I attempted child-like short stories. But in 2011, it was then that I dreamt about my main characters and the story that followed. As I’ve posted in other blog posts of mine, I rushed, which was a big mistake, and I learned my lesson from it. I shoved it out there without properly going back over it, without a proper editor, and without realizing how badly it needed a great cover and SO MANY corrections. So, I set out to redo it, update it, however you want to say it. With many cover concepts later, I thought I had done it! Finally fixed the story, yet the cover never felt right… But I had gone through an editor, even hired a ghost writer to assist with expanding on details and helping me find a way to change it with keeping the original story. That’s what we did, and in the end, I was back in love with my book and with the story! However, when I put the book back out, the sales were way down compared to the first time I tried and I realized that perhaps attempting again may not have been the best for my novel but I would continue with the story because my characters deserved it. Then just a few months ago, I found a home for my novel. It was accepted by a publisher, and a new cover that spoke volumes about the story itself was put together. It brought back that excitement for the story and for the work itself. I was ready to really write and to get myself out there again. It is in this moment that I realize even more what it means to not give up, don’t quit on your dreams, because eventually they will become reality.
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