Keep Clapping

If you clap long and hard enough, your dreams will come alive.

All of you who have attended a performance of "Peter Pan" will remember when Peter tells the audience to clap if they believe in fairies to bring back Tinkerbell. I always clapped the loudest. It's wonderful that fairies can be brought back to life. When I was 10, I realized I was a writer. Now, decades later, with a whole lot of clapping, my dream of publishing a novel has come alive. My novel, The Mall Fairies: Exile, has just been released.

Of course, this comes after a whole lot of work. I've spent years of writing and rewriting and learning how to write better. I've submitted again and again and often been rejected. But I've also had successes, times when my clapping brought sparks and signs of life to my own personal Tinkerbell. Those were the times when I received an acceptance for a submission. My hands are very sore these days. But it's well worth it.

So keep clapping. Yes, we all falter from time to time, when it seems too difficult to believe in the existence of our particular fairy, our particular life's passion. When the clapping is too hard, too painful. That's when it's wonderful to pause and remember to believe in your fairy's return, believe in your ability to bring that fairy back to sparkling, engaging passionate life.

And thank you, Lucinda, for the opportunity to post on your lovely blog!

 

Here are my links:

to my author's page: http://museituppublishing.com/bookstore2/index.php?page=shop.product_details&flypage=flypage.tpl&product_id=312&category_id=171&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=1&vmcchk=1&Itemid=1

to my blog: http://condascreativecenter.blogspot.com/