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After struggling to get noticed by New York Editors for a job as an editorial assistant (due to the fact that I live in Florida) I have decided to wait. I am now working as a receptionist so that I can save money and move to NY in one year and try again to get into publishing.

However my goal as a writer shouldn’t be paused for a year and there’s no reason it needs to be. Sooo…here’s my goal: To get published once. One story, one publication, one time.

I have constantly put this off saying I wasn’t ready or my stories still weren’t done or I didn’t know where to send them. The lie as evident on my face as the nose on Pinocchio.

I’m scared…terrified of rejection. That I’ll prove I’m not a real writer or not good enough. I’m afraid of exposing my writing to an experienced, critical eye. This is silly, because of course my stories have been seen by experienced critical eyes. It was hard to let them see it, but they always gave feedback that helped me and my stories to grow. And I survived the experience.

But still I hesitate, because no matter what submitting your work for publication is a very real step towards becoming a writer and rejection is a very real part of that. So I set a goal for myself. I step closer towards the ravine. When I look to the other side I can see myself published. I glance down and choose to take a leap of faith that many before me have taken.

Although I am only twenty-three and am the baby at work I had a moment of panic because when I was little I imagined (unrealistically!) that I would have a bestseller by now. Of course reality is not born out of a little girl’s dreams.

So for now it is simply time to try.

100% of the time the book is always better than the movie. When you read a book you can do things with in your head that you can’t while watching a movie. A book engages your imagination and gives you the ability to create the stage, cast the characters and even be the main character. When you open a book and begin reading everything around you fades away and you are truly, literally inside the book. You can picture anything the book is doing in your head with out the limitations of reality.

With that said not all book based movies are bad.  On their own a few of  them are pretty good (ex. the Lord of the Rings, & Narnia), not because of a super special effect because they told the whole story and did their best to stay true to what the book had written. Without coming down on specific book based movies I would like to say that a few left out bits of information, characters or scenes that seemed unimportant, but a few movies later the story line doesn’t make much sense, because that little bit of information would have snow balled explaining future events.

What if instead of trying to cram a series of books with plots, scenes, major and minor character development, plot twists, and resolutions into a movie (or movies) someone tried to spread it out into a television series? Wow! What an idea! This would allow the writers to include every bit of  the story and the character development that sometimes gets left out. Imagine an entire station dedicated to shows based on books.

If you are a fellow book nerd you will understand the pain of watching a movie cut out a part of a book you fell in love with. There are characters in the Harry Potter books that never made the cut into the movies, yet those of  us who read the books loved them and would have loved them on the big screen. Would they have made the cut onto a television series that  had the time to tell the whole story? I don’t know, but it’s certainly something to think about.

One thing I found as a new blogger is that my site is constantly evolving and changing as it grows into what I want it to become. When I first started just a few months ago I imagined pushing out several posts a week on what it’s like to be a writer. That hasn’t exactly been the case.

I have only posted a few articles so far and am working on more to come. I hold myself and my writing to such a high standard that when some of my posts haven’t hit the mark I aimed for I chose not post them saving them for when they’re ready.

I also have drifted closer to wanting to write book reviews. I so enjoyed reading and reviewing that first book I was given and voice my own opinion to the public which is something I haven’t done before. To imagine that my opinion might have some influence now or in the future is an intoxicating feeling.

It has been a challenge to get more books to review because of the famous catch 22 “You need to have experience to get experience”.  I refer to my degree in English Literature and my passion for books. I have read more books than I could ever begin to count and since high school have developed my own tastes and opinions for the books that I love to read. I do love a variety of books, but I hold the ones I love to a high standard.

So when a new book comes along that does live up to that standard it can be disappointing but I can also tell you exactly where the book may have gone wrong and what I would have liked to seen from it. On the other hand when I find a book that I love! I want to scream it. I want to share it with everyone I know. “Hey please read this book….like right now!” I want other readers to share my passion and I know they will want to share it to which is an amazing thing about the reading community.

I’m enjoying the blogging community and becoming a more active member of the book lover community and doing it all as a writer!