Dreams

My big dream, my biggest ambition, is to write a novel. Getting it published would be amazing too but I love the process of writing and just accomplishing a finished story I was proud of would be worth it. I have wanted to write since I was very small. When I was younger it was the easiest thing in the world to sit and write and write. In fact, I wrote a full length novel when I was about 13. 

Every so often I get 'the bug' again and begin writing. But most ideas fizzle out quickly. I am currently writing again but it is slow progress! I find I am not good at disciplining myself to write when I don't feel particularly inspired. I know if I am to be successful in achieving my dream then I need to keep at it, a little bit every day. 

I think the difference between the 13 year old me and the grown-up me is that I am too much of a perfectionist now. I want my novel to be perfect; factually correct, gripping and with perfect grammar! I need to throw all my standards away and just write.

I love this quote by Ernest Hemingway:

'There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.'

I know that God has put this desire in my heart and if it is his will then I will achieve it. I need to sit down at my typewriter (laptop) and spill out my thoughts.