Enjoy Your Dreams!
There are dreams you can’t fully control (ahem, famous bestselling author, perhaps) but that doesn’t mean you should ditch them. Heaven knows writing is hard enough; why not occasionally indulge in a break from reality?
Speaking of Heaven, that’s my dream-you-can’t-control. My YA fantasy novel, The Violet Feathers Chronicles: Heaven will be published next year. I love to imagine that momentum builds and it finds such a large, appreciative audience that Hollywood comes a-calling.
In fact, I’ve already cast my movie. My story is about archangels at war in the Seven Heavens, so who better to play my angels than Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles and Misha Collins from the hit TV show Supernatural?? The show also featured archangels at war and I’ve already seen Jared play one version of Lucifer—imagine him portraying my version! And Jensen would be brilliant playing Gabriel, Lucifer’s once-best-friend-now-turned-arch-enemy. Oh, and Misha’s character on the show was an angel.
Considering a) my book is not yet published and b) has not yet made a mint c) I have no movie deal and d) I don’t have Jared, Jensen or Misha on speed dial to say, hey guys, wanna star in my movie?, this dream of mine remains just that.
But who cares? It’s just plain old fun to play around with these scenarios in my head. So yes, put the work into your writing; yes, persevere, but hey, why not dream a little dream at the same time?