Time Frame.

It is said that hard work and determination are required for success. No one tells you how long that hard work and determination has to be done to be successful. The sooner the better is obviously the best possible answer but what if sooner is still a long time away? Sooner could still be years away. 5 years is going to happen sooner than 10. 10 sooner than 20.

This realization mustn't be discouraging. If you love to do something, then time really shouldn't matter now should it? I realize that everything I'm jotting down, scribbling on piles on Post-It notes, quick typing on word or taking a note on my phone may not bear fruit for years, if ever. I couldn't care. I would like to be a successful author but I'm not going to let some imaginary time frame stall my efforts. I will write, I will improve and hopefully one day it will get me somewhere.

Until then I will hold childish fancies of being the next big thing to come out of nowhere and impress millions of fans and create long lasting characters. I will also work hard every day in an attempt to make that happen. Some of it is going to be bad. Some of it is going to be good. I may even come to hate some of the stuff I come up with and take a hard look at but that's OK too. I will still be doing what I love to do.

You mustn't focus on the immediate future either. That's a pitfall. If you expect some piece of brilliance to fall onto your lap within a short time frame, you just might be putting on too much unneeded pressure to perform and not everyone excels under pressure. You could be putting out garbage with the illusion of grandeur while racing a clock that no one really sees but yourself.

Hard work and determination make are required for success. Once you care not about how soon that happens, the hard work and determination will make bigger strides toward success than worrying about when's, dates or years.

Where it starts.

Every story starts with an idea. Some spark that's lights up enough of a picture for you to work with. Occasionally the spark fades out too quickly for something real to take hold of. Other times its so bright that nearly the entire picture is given in one moment. Those are my favorite.

Lately I've been having lots of little sparks firing off constantly. Glimpses of could be's, maybes, what ifs etc. etc. etc. Nothing huge has come about. Normally I would complain of writer's block and not having a good enough idea. That's not the case. I'm rather thankful. They're ideas for the future. Tales that have potential to grow into something larger once I decide to shine a bright enough light on them. For now, they wait on a notepad with all the others. A holding pen of potential lives, moments and mysteries, that notepad.

One such spark of came today during an unfortunate moment that will not be gotten into but a spark does not let you decide most of the time when it wants to appear. It'll just appear.

This spark is about the human soul Beliefs around the world see the soul moving on to a Heaven or a Hell. We're going to look at the Heaven perspective. An adult dies and goes to Heaven. They're image of themselves while there is what they want it to be because they've had time to learn about the world and shape themselves how they want to. What about a child? Will they forever remain a child in the after life? Can they shape their image into a grown body but still maintain a child's thoughts?

Which brings us back to the spark. If a child gets to Heaven, will they continue to grow into an adult while they are there?

I think its an interesting idea if done right. Unfortunately for it, it goes to my holding pen of ideas to graze with parasitic puppies, a camper, a literal bump in the night and a few stragglers that have been there longer than they care to admit. Its got odd company for the subject matter it came with but it'll be treated like a good friend nonetheless.

Now where will the next spark come from?

Hello! Welcome to one man's ambitious goal to become a professional author. Like the title suggests its going to be a long process for sure. It won't happen overnight nor the night after but hopefully one day I'll get there. Hard work and determination right?

I will be sharing my steps and efforts to get a printed work out to the world. Trials and tribulations, ups and downs, lefts and rights along with all the human emotion contained herein. It should be fun.

Among those thoughts I'll be sharing numerous other things that come to mind. Movies, books, games and locale reviews because why not? Everything in the world has something to offer so we'll look at those when the time arises.

Updates should be Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. That schedule will most likely change but its a starting a point for now.