Y: Yearn. I've sold nine books to publishers and self pubbed a few on my own. I feel like a moderately successful author even though I'm not getting any where near to rich. A fear I have is that I'll settle into complacency. I'll start to be happy to stay right where I am. I hope that I always yearn for more.
I yearn for a big book contract where the publisher will do loads of promotion for me. I yearn for some movie maker to want my book to make into a feature film. (I do have a list of actors who should be in that movie). I yearn to see my bank account make tax day extremely painful, even more so than it is now with my teaching salary. I yearn for so many contracts coming into my inbox that I need to change the ink cartridge after I print them all out. And I hope I never stop yearning for more.
Do you ever fear your drive to do or be more is lagging? What do you yearn for as a writer right now? Are you yearning for A to Z to be over?
13 comments:
I think a movie contract would be every writer's dream! To see your book out there with actual actors would be wonderful (and probably frustrating as well!)
I just yearn to write the next book, dying to know how it ends...
Rinelle Grey
I worry that I will forget why I started this author journey. That's going to be part of my IWSG post this week.
I yearn to just get over this inability to get my first book out in the world. And worried that I'll never figure it out.
I salute those of you who have figure it out. You are my idols.
i hope i always yearn for something---ya got me thinking this morning, susan!
Part of me yearns for people to meet the characters I've grown to love, but another part isn't so sure I want to share them.
I can't imagine NOT yearning for something, dreaming, striving, challenging, goal setting, learning. What would I do with myself? :)
Yes, someone make my books into movies! Preferably not the SyFy Channel though.
I've day dreamed about my books being made into movies. That would be amazing. I hope I never stop yearning to write more.
My yearnings are still pretty basic. I want to walk into a Barnes and Noble (or whatever bookstore survives) and see a book written by me sitting on a shelf.
I am yearning for good health. Pretty basic right now.
right now I'm just yearning for an agent but I also hope to support myself with my writing at some point. Even if I never get rich, I'll be pretty happy if my job is something I love.
While we always write for ourselves, it's also nice to get some recognition...regardless of the form it takes.
Best of luck! :)
Actually, I yearn to finish my few web development projects so I can focus totally on writing.
#atozchallenge, Kristen's blog: kristenhead.blogspot.com
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