Call for submissions — Dealing with reality while chasing your dreams

We’re all dreamers. We wish and work for the day that we can wake up and write, draw, design, direct, shoot or create whatever our hearts desire and make a living doing it.

The reality is that most of us just aren’t there yet. We have to deal with the reality of our economic circumstance while chasing our dreams. It’s a difficult thing to balance emotionally, but we do it every day. The question we’re asking is how are you dealing with it? What tactics are you using to keep making progress towards your dreams while still dealing with the reality of making a paycheck and living your life? What kind of toll is it taking on you emotionally and how are you not allowing yourself to be broken?

Feel free to be as creative as you want in your response.

Same rules as always:If you’re already a writer for CRY, go ahead and submit.If you’re not a writer for CRY but would like to submit to this request, let us know and we’ll add you ASAP.Just because you submit doesn’t mean we’ll post. If you haven’t heard back from us in three days, consider that a pass.Deadline to submit is this Friday, July 17.

Please reach out if you have any questions at all. If you are new to Medium, here’s how you submit a draft to a publication.

Looking forward to your stories. If you know someone who would be interested in submitting to this request, go ahead and share this with them.

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