Snowflake 2022 - Challenge 5

[prisca]

In your own space, talk about an idea you wish you had the time / talent / energy to do.

I guess this one is easy to answer. Already when I was about 14/15 years old, I figured out what I wanted to do with my future. Writing! Not just for fun but as an author who would fascinate many people with her stories and maybe make enough money with it to make it a full-time job. Writing like my favorite author back then, Enid Blyton, whose books I devoured not only once but multiple times. I would have given a lot to write like her.

To make a long story short: yes, I did start playing around with words back then, not perfect but with love and passion. Until finally reality caught up with me, and I had to admit that a decent education was not the worst idea. For a while, I lost interest in writing and only came back to it years later, when I discovered the infinite vastness of fan fiction.

Since then, I am playing around with words again, lightyears away from talent and energy to make it a full-time job, and for sure, I am not Enid Blyton. But writing has already helped me through some rough times. Even if I will never publish a novel and never make money with it, that's totally okay because writing can be a hell of a lot of fun also when you are writing just for yourself.

Comments

[tjs_whatnot]

Really, writing for yourself is the best! I had the wish you had and did my best to make it happen (writing professionally) and maybe could have been successful, but it was a lot of work, for little reward and so many parts that weren't about writing that I sucked at and really didn't want to do. So now I'm back to writing for me again.

You're doing fine. ❤❤