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I Live For the Applause
It isn’t every day that a dream comes true, but this week one of mine did. Since I can remember, I’ve been making up stories and sharing them with anyone who would listen. I dropped this hobby for a while, in order to pursue an adult life in tech, but after deciding to stay home and raise my boys, I picked it up again. At first, it was to satisfy my need for intelligent conversation, not with real people, but with the person inside of my head. Eventually it led to writing stories to tell my children. By 2010, it had evolved into full blown novels, and since then, I’ve written six of them, published two, and sold a trilogy. The sixth I’m currently editing and gearing up to pitch to my publisher.
I’ve also been blogging since 2013, and according to the directory on my computer, have written at least 82 different pieces. And I’ve published over two hundred here on Medium. This work has led to podcast invitations, interviews, and speaking engagements. Yet this week, with the publication of Origins, I finally felt like this hobby of mine, this dream, had become real. And yet…
The writer’s life is full of uncertainty. It takes discipline to get those stories out of your head and onto the page. It takes courage to go through the grueling process of finding an agent. It also takes faith in your abilities and it was here that I made my first mistake in the business, settling for the…
