There once was a saying..."A penny for your thoughts"...as if to say that was all they were worth. Then people started throwing pennies into fountains for good luck and making wishes on them. I say people didn't put enough value on those thoughts back then, so I have come up with a new saying..."A dollar for your dreams"...
Writers are full of dreams so why not give them true value? And if dreams are where all the story book magic begins, then why not ask for something one hundred times better that what we have gotten in the past? Writers today have it tough. We dream big and then go to the wishing well and throw our pennies in...hoping to get an agent...hoping to get a book offer...hoping to become successful at this career which can sometimes frustrate while still driving us to constantly improve ourselves.
Sometimes writers fear the well will dry up or freeze over and what will we do then? I think we have nothing to worry about. The world is full of dreamers and the ideas that spark the next great story lay all around us. We just need to keep our eyes and ears open for the wonderful possibilities out there. And we need to continue to dream big. Not just penny-worth...let's make it one hundred times bigger and dream a dollar's worth...and yeah, lets get a bigger wishing well!
