My Biggest Dream, A Great Thing I Want to Accomplish...
So many things relate to my kid that I sometimes have trouble with these prompts, I could easily make almost all of them about her. I never had dreams of becoming a mother in my youth...and that trend continued on into my 20's. I just never was that girl. I never fantasized about my future wedding and picked out my future kids' names. Now that I am a parent, I can't imagine my life without her. She became my dream. A dream I never knew I wanted. But, I've talked about that in the past so I'll discuss something else I want to accomplish today.
One of my other big dreams is to write a novel. I want to tell the story I've been hoping to read every time I pick up a new book. I'm not talking about the next great American novel here, I just want to write a story worth something to me. I'm not talking about a commercially successfully-turned motion picture type of novel...that would be awesome, but not necessary. I don't think I would even need it to be published. I just want to get this story I've had rattling around in my brain for so long down on paper.
Writing a novel has been a dream of mine for a very long time. It was only until, maybe 5 years ago, that I started thinking seriously about it. I remember when I was younger, middle school age, I sat in my bedroom rewriting movies or TV shows if I didn't like the way the storyline progressed. Considering I don't want to write fan-fic like I did all those years ago, I started thinking about what original story I wanted to tell. I have notes everywhere. A couple of notebooks at home and "notes" on my phone...I need to go through them and start organizing. I even have an inspiration board on Pinterest. Anytime an idea comes to me or I read/see/hear something that I think could be useful, I write it down.
A received a very good piece of advice once: Don't discuss your "in-progress writing" with non-writers. Creativity is a fragile thing, after all. I'm not going to discuss my story in this post other than that it will be a work of fiction. The characters, however, will have facets of realism to them. What I mean by that is, people I know or have known have been the basis to many of my characters. Some are wholly that person, others are comprised of aspects, and others are amalgamations. So if the day ever comes that my novel lines some shelf in Barnes & Noble bookstores & you purchase it after reading the back cover summary & after a few chapters you begin to wonder why that douchey character seems vaguely familiar...just know you were, in fact, my muse.
You're welcome...asshole.
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