Chasing your Dreams
What is your dream? Do you dream of being a singer, dancer, author or even get a chance to ride in a formula one race car? Almost everyone has a dream that they have thought about doing, “someday”. But when is that someday? Why not start going after it now? Take singing lessons, dance lessons or whatever your heart desires. Can’t afford the lessons then ask around there are people willing to trade things for singing lessons. If you are a great gardener you can exchange produce for singing lessons. This is just one way of chasing your dream. Our dream was and still is to become authors. It started a few years ago when my youngest son, Charlie, was challenged with writing a book and getting it published. Charlie is a kid who had trouble catching on in school. He was always writing stories or reading a book for more inspiration. Charlie accepted the challenge from the principal and asked me to help. Neither one of us had any idea of where to start or how to begin getting published. First thing we had to do though was write the book. We wrote the story and then realized it needed editing. So we did to the best of our ability. Then we asked around for people who could help us to edit it. We had a very small budget so we couldn’t afford to pay for some of the higher priced ones. We found a young lady who was a part time teacher just beginning. She helped us to edit it as best she could as well too. In the mean time we had been reading up on how to get published by going to our local library and checking out books with tips and suggestions of how to go about it. Their first step was finding an agent. We submitted query letters many agents over the next couple of years with no luck. In the mean time I started looking on social sites like Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn and the likes to see how they started or how they were doing it. We found a wealth of information and people willing to help us out on most anything from book covers to editing. We networked, we learned about marketing, promoting and how to best help others on their journey as well. We found it really helped if we assisted others who were just