Curious Incidents of a Flailing Mermaid

Take a leap

Prompt from "Welcome To My Reality Forum"  #2. What are your writing goals, dreams and ambitions? How do they relate to your life goals, dreams and ambitions, is there a difference?

I need to start writing properly again. Even though I have a novel started, that’s not what I want to write… well, it is but, later. The "Welcome To My Reality Forum"  contest/activity by the lovely Rhonda has been on my favourite list for a while now. But, other than the fact that it’s awesome, I couldn’t work out why.
Now I know!

My writing goal is, indeed, to write a book. Not a novel. My writing dream is to write a novel and it’ll be amazing. But my writing goal is to write my story.

My job is to tell my story. Everyday. I tell my story to thousands of students and teachers everyday… obviously, not my whole A-Z story but a lot of it. Often, I get bored of my story by Thursday or Friday so I mix it up a little, because I can. But there is more to tell, more to share.

Anyway, tonight I came to "Welcome To My Reality Forum"  and realised it could help me. Not only will it get me writing, but it’ll get me writing about the right things. Surely, this can help me open my mind and get my creativity/ideas flowing! Then I realised that this was the third thing that has pointed me towards starting work on this goal/project in the last week.

Firstly, I was reading (shock!) a George RR Martin book and came across a quote that basically decided (for now at least) my book title. The quote was:

“Perhaps we can fly. All of us. How will we ever know unless we leap from some tall tower? No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap.
There is the window. Leap. What do you want?
The world.”

― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

Aaaand, therefore, my book title currently stands as:

Take A Leap

Or it may be a two part title to incorporate something I use in all my speeches:

Take A Leap: Forget the What Ifs.

What do you think? Let me know :)

Secondly, I had a meeting with a guy from a charity called Follow Your Dreams. The point of the meeting was that they want me to become their Patron (woop) so we were just getting to know me and the charity. He said to me “so, what are your goals and dreams? You know, since you’ve achieved all yours so far.” … I considered this then said I wanted to write a book. He suggested I could get someone to write it for me. I laughed and explained that I love writing and only I could write my book. He simply said “do it”.

So here we are!