The Writing Dream List
Sitting down to write can challenge your whole purpose for being, challenge your dreams. No doubts about that.
Getting those words down is food for the soul but it is more than that. All the while you are writing you can see yourself holding the Nobel Prize for Literature, or making it on to the Best Sellers List or getting the blockbuster movie deal. That is the dream. We never want to risk losing our dream because what do we replace it with if it becomes lost to us? Or worse, if we achieve it!
It is not a problem unique to writers, this self sabotage.
There are so many inspirational true life stories out there about how others have faced the loss of their big dream, or found a new one to follow when they have achieved it. We don’t have to reinvent the process, we only have to realise that it applies to writers too!
Just get down one word at a time. Begin. Write hard. Celebrate the small dreams along the way while keeping an eye out for the big one.
Perhaps the way is a ‘list’ of small dreams, that build on each other but also intersect, rather than just one big dream?