Good News, For Once

Believe me, I’ll come back to writing more on eating disorders.  I also will eventually get to what I think on religion, specifically Christianity.  Think and believe, actually.  But today, I wanna write about something good that people won’t leave me notes on, either misunderstanding that I’m saying exactly what they are, or telling me something in a different way that what’s written that they think I’ve missed.  ::Sighs::  Part of the entire problem with words, really.  And no, I’m not trying to attack anyone in specific, that’s just what I feel.

Anyway, onto good things.  My dad knows someone who, when he last talk to him, had actually asked if I was still writing things and whatnot.  So, my dad said that yeah, I was, and the guy said that he’d look over my writing if I wanted him to at some point.  And the best part is, this guy works for a publishing company!!!!  And I just checked out the website, and apparently, this company grabs books for publishers like HarperCollins, Penguin, Scholastic, etc.

So, I sent him a copy of Celeste’s Life, (actual title, Our Strange Duet,) and he’s gonna read it over, give suggestions, and stuff like that.  He even hinted at giving me tips on writing a letter to the editor.  I’m doing some major editing on the story, and started it last night.  I’m going through and adding lines, fleshing things out a bit, changing little things here and there, making it more obvious that she’s talking to two different people.  I started editing it last night, (even got a tribute to your childhood in there, Melanie!) and I’m gonna continue it until I’m done.  Then, I’m gonna go over This Is The Moment, and see what I can do about it, see if I do need to change anything, and finally finish it.  I’m dying for these things to get published, and this is my best lead so far.  So, I’m gonna take it as far as it’ll go.

I hope that these two novels can get published soon.  That means I’ll have put my foot in the door for my career, and I’ll actually be making money from books that I’ve written.  Then all I have to do is sit down, and write down some of these other ideas that are in my head.  That’s gonna be the challenging part.  Being able to find time to sit down and write.  Since I’m working, and since I’ve been working at these differnet jobs, I’ve noticed that I’m not really able to just have down time to sit and write.  To let that itch come back to my fingers where I have to be at the laptop all the time, and I’m almost possessed to the point of obsession to get out the story I’m telling.  I haven’t felt that itch in a long time, and I miss it.  I want that back.  I want my novels published.  I want to get my name out in the world, I want to tell my stories.  I want my novels to be bound and have nice softbound, or hardback bindings, with beautiful illustrations on the front.  I want to see the blurb on the back that I wrote, describing my book in a mere few sentences.  I want to walk into Barnes and Noble, go to the section my book has been placed in, and see someone picking it up and saying, “I want to buy this one.”

I want to see my dream come true.

And through this, I hope it will.  I’m gonna try.  And if nothing else, I can get advice from someone who knows the system.

I can dream.  And dream, I do.