Shape Your Dreams
I started this year with one big goal, I wanted to publish one of my books. I knew it was no easy task and that it would be a monster to tame. Still, I set out with a simple plan. One chapter a day. One day at a time. That’s how these things go sometimes. A little bit here, a little bit there, soon the… →
When we chase a dream there is always a danger lurking in the shadows. It stalks us from within the dark, waiting for the moment to strike. When we are weary, or distracted it races forward like lightning and our desires are snuffed out and our progress grinds to a halt. The music we make no longer sounds right, the words on the page seem… →
Whether you realize it or not, every single one of us has a dream. Whether you spend your day too busy to think or just chilling with some video games, all of us have dreams. When we think of dreams we tend to think of the grandest of achievements in human history. Learning to fly, going to the moon, diving to the bottom of the… →
This year I have set out to self publish one of my books. When I first thought of the idea for the story I thought it was brilliant. After I wrestled it onto the page and read it again I found it… lacking. I spent a year doing rewrites and working on dialogue and polishing the text up. Hard work. Tedious work. Yet I thought… →
What is a dream? It is a question that many people have wondered over the years. Are they merely the things we see when we sleep? Are they the fanciful notions of a headstrong youth? Are they important or should we simply ignore them. I started the DreamAnvil because I believe that our dreams are real, and more importantly that they can be achieved. I… →
We live in a world that is built on dreams. Yet, not all of the accomplishments we take for granted today were the results of a brilliant, smashing success. Many of the items that we use every day from potato chips, to the microwave oven, to penicillin were accidents. Mistakes. Failures that were capitalized on by their inventors. It is critical that every dreamer look… →
As we touched on last week, failure will come for every project eventually. Be it a missed deadline, a physical set back or just plain exhaustion, failure is not something to be ashamed of. This is part of every journey. This week I’d like to talk about what options we have available when something does go wrong. What can we do to right the ship?… →
The pages practically bleed red ink. My mind is a whirl of emotions. At one time I thought this piece was good. I thought it was written well enough to actually send out to editors and agents to read. As my pen touches the page for another slash of red ink I can’t help but think, “I thought I was a better writer than this?”… →
Setting really big goals is important. These big goals can inspire us to work hard and can give us a dream to pursue. Yet these big goals are also the most likely to fail. Big dreams are as dangerous as they are necessary but they do not have to fail. There are steps we can take right off the bat to assess and determine how… →
For many of us, 2020 was a year that saw upheaval in ways most of us never imagined possible in our modern times. I saw my job and my health threatened by the same invisible cause. I watched as my social connections frayed as video chat replaced sitting beside someone and giving them a hug. I watched in horror as our country cracked under the… →