Your Writing Dream

[Calamire]

*Is trying to jump-start forum*

In terms of writing, what are your dreams? What would be the highest goal via writing that you want to achieve?

[Indifference]

My dreams... Um, well, I'd love to be published someday. Whether or not writing will be my career, I don't know.

[skippy]

Sure, being published is great, it would be mind blowing for me, but honestly, i just want people to read it and be entertained, and none of that "Oh Nick, its so great" crap, but i want to write something that people will remember after a few books

[Tekcor]

Obviously, publication.

Specifically, I think if my dream were to come true I would write something that would be remembered. Something that might stir things up, cause a little controversy, stretch the boundaries, be the topic of discussion, be the set piece of literature in years to come in some poor sod's English exam. I'd be quite happy to be penniless, bestselling is not in my interests, as long as my work was somehow of unique value.

My preference is to write novels, but I don't really know. Being just fourteen eveything is changing all the time for me, not a lot is laid out. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm also something of a polymath so it is hard to see a clear path because I'm free to choose from many. Skills forgotten, I have two main loves: writing and helping people. If I can unite the two, that is my writing dream. Just how to do it, I have no idea.

[Fodzy]

My only ambition is to write down all the stuff in my head so i can expand my attention span (woah that almost makes no sense)

[moth]

To be in the TW Anthology XDXDXD
I've already been published. I don't need to wish anymore. :cool:
Pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffft. XD

[Kylan]

To be published. To be succesful. To not burn out at twenty. To improve in my writing style! All of these. I think it would be just plain cool to see your name in print and have people enjoying your creation. That is what I'm shooting for.

-Kylan

[Empress Artisan]

I don't want to do much... just please myself with my writing. I mean it will be my career, but I don't mind if I live on bread an water. I write for myself and I don't care who reads it.

[Carraka]

Just to be successful enough for a career.

I mean, sitting at a computer, writing, outlining, answering fanmail--that's the dream life.

Right now I'm assuming that it's easier to get something published young, but I haven't actually finished anything I want to publish, and I'm not sure my writing is good enough. Hence the writing website.

[little tin fish]

To be published at to get better? I guess that could be my dream, in the future anyway. At the moment I'd be overjoyed if I managed to finish one of my novels, that's what I'm aiming for at the moment, anything above that would make me feel like i was drowning in ambition XD

[Imelda]

Publishment. But beyond that, I want people to enjoy what I write. I want people to want to pick my books up because they like getting wrapped up in whatever world it's about. I think I'd rather stay unpublished than be published and have no one like it. :p

[writingluver5]

To be a bestseller. To have people recognize me on the street and be like, "YOU'RE the author of such and such book!" To be married to a wonderful husband who will support me in my career, and to be able to be a stay at home mom while being a writer, too. To touch people's souls with my words. To be remembered.

To live my writing dream.

[llama]

Mine? To have Kindred Blades reach the popularity that Eragon did. And also, to have my horror writing to come as a surprise after this trilogy, but a pleasent surprise. Plain and ismple, I am greedy, and I wanna be a known author.

This is highly unlikely; as a matter of fact, it's unlikely that I'll get published at all, but oh well.

[Empress Artisan]

All I want right now is to go to school in fall and be the best in my AP Creative Writing class

[The Old Fart]

Deleted...I don't know how the heck this post ended up here...I never clicked this thread :S. It's moved to the Favorite Authors/Books thread instead :S

[Shadow]

What I dream of? Hmm, let's think...
For my novels to be bestsellers, basically, and be referred to as "one of the most renowned fantasy stories of the century." Chances of that happening? 0.00000001% that's what!

[The Old Fart]

It's a good dream. But, just to make you feel better, even if your novel is the best one ever, you still have a low chance of getting recognized. It's more to do with the market and advertising than it does with ability. Plenty of damn good novels come out every year that get ignored. And plenty of crappy novels get attention when they should just be turned into mulch.

[ladylaudanum]

I want to ghost-write some of the Hardy Boys digests...
*be still my beating heart*

[barbarairvin]

*Is trying to jump-start forum*

In terms of writing, what are your dreams? What would be the highest goal via writing that you want to achieve?
I always wanted to be published, but my ultimate goal came to me nearly a year ago, when I got the idea to write a stage play for Angela Lansbury. I wanted so much to write a script for her, and I sent several letters to her about story ideas I had and was starting to work on. But she never replied. I even got in touch with her agent, and he told me she wouldn't read anything that was unsolicited. I was very disappointed for a long time. Sometimes when I think about it even now, a part of me still is...

Barbara

[Empress Artisan]

That is a wonderfully sad story you have. You should write a book about your life and what happened ^^

[barbarairvin]

That is a wonderfully sad story you have. You should write a book about your life and what happened ^^
I have been told I should write about my life by others. I don't think I could actually write about myself, but I intend to use my experiences in stories and plays.

Barbara

[Empress Artisan]

Definetly. Some of the best literature comes from life experience.

[barbarairvin]

Definetly. Some of the best literature comes from life experience.
I agree. Actually, the story I had been working on at the time was about a stage actress who decided to give up her career to become an aid to a visually impaired student.

Barbara

[Empress Artisan]

Sounds amazing. Some of my personal favorites [books, that is] are either memoirs or based on real-life events. I plan to write on my life as well, although reality really isn't my sort of thing.

[barbarairvin]

Sounds amazing. Some of my personal favorites [books, that is] are either memoirs or based on real-life events. I plan to write on my life as well, although reality really isn't my sort of thing.
Yeah, the young girl in my story was going to be similar to me, because I'm visually impaired. But I don't want to be known as just another blind person. There's so much more to me, you know?

I love memoirs and biographies. Most of the ones I read are about classic film and TV stars.

Barbara

[The Old Fart]

My dream...

Be able to make a decent enough living writing novels, short stories, and the like. I want to be comfortable in the writing life. It's hard, I know, but that's my dream.

My fantasy would be to be as famous and rich as Stephen King, only ten times better because I would be a better writer in that instance and such...oh and have all my books turned into blockbuster movies that out-do all the Spiderman movies combined in watchership. Now that's a fantasy...

[AsSubtleAsASplinter]

To be recognized as an author. I couldn't care less if I make a career out of writing, I just want to have enough publicity that when people talk about books, someone will say my name and everyone will know who they're talking about. To the extent of J.K Rowling or Stephen King.

[Isis]

I want to be able to write like Neil Gaiman. Or like sam. (http://www.xenith.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=11408&hl=) Beyond that, it doesn't matter.

[writer23]

my writing dream...to have a publisher look me straight in the eye and tell me that what i wrote was good and that it's being published.

i need someone other than my family and friends to tell me it's good or that's it's worthy of being published.

i hate when people say 'it's good' just because they feel they have to.

or i would want someone who i didn't know tell me that it stinks.

either way i would be happy.

hey...that's the reason i joined this site. to see what people other than my family really think. (and to improve my writing!)

[Imelda]

I hate to say it, but it'll probably be a letter or phonecall that tells you you're being published. No looking in the eye involved. ;)

[writer23]

i no (tear tear) but i can dream can't i?!

[The Old Fart]

Well if you get published and you turn out to be somewhat of a success you'll become more involved with your editor and likely meet them, but at the start it's not likely, unless you win the Writers of the Future Contest...in which case you get to meet a lot of writers face to face...

[authormage]

To be published and get better at writing.

[Jelax]

I want to write one of the greatest science fiction novels of the century. It would be rich with politics, wafare, and a subtle analysis of different types of governments. The characters would be totally amazing and absolutely deep; some would be playful, others hardcore; relationships would be vivid; their trials and reactions would be stunning.

[Sick]

I think my dream is pretty set in stone if I work hard at it: To continue to write, and be a better writer. I don't really care about being published or recognized, which would blow my mind and already does if someone at least likes something I write. The reason why I don't care about those two things like most writers do, is (1) writing for me is a drive and (2) I know there'll be at least one person in the world that will recognize me for being, at some point, a good writer. That one person is my motivation.

[Juma'ah]

Well, I'm planning on going to college for writing when I graduate, or if i get into a secondary program. Right now, I'm just planning on writing books.

[poisonpaine]

I just want to be heard =/ is that not too good of a dream?

[Calamire]

That's a good dream. I wish you luck with it.

[poisonpaine]

thank you. I'm currently working on my own magazine

[Calamire]

thank you. I'm currently working on my own magazine
A magazine? Cool. I don't think there are too many people here doing that. Is it for money? Or what sort of work are you doing?

[poisonpaine]

Its generally a music magazine. It's not for money. Its just something that i've always wanted to do. I'm just following my niche.

[Rafael Domination]

My dream writing status?
Trust me...I'm ambitious....

After getting a bestseller in all of my novels, I hope my novels become movies, videogames, and even merchandise, and heck, why not a ride in some amusement park.

ya, I know it seems a little too high, but hey, aim high-shoot low. If I try to reach that lofty goal, I might just do pretty well, maybe not fantastic, but good enough...

(NO ONE FLAME ME FOR THIS OR I WILL COUNTERATTACK :D)

[Claudette]

I want to leave an emotional impression on readers. I want them to say, "Wow," and feel changed, or moved, or shocked, horrified, fascinated, scared by what they read. But not because of content, but by meaning/theme. Like, for my NaNo Novel, "You don't know yourself; everyone can be 'evil'." Or something to that affect? Only, more shocking. ^_~

[Pseudonym]

I want some professor in the future to give a lecture on my poems, and actually captivate and inspire his students with it.

Oh, and I want to live forever. Simply to run into that class and go "HA! That was ME!". Cryogenics FTW.

[Empress Artisan]

I want one person to be avidly obsessed with my novels like I've been with other's.

[Rafael Domination]

One? Only one? Why now the whole world!!!

Set yer sights on loftier goals, Lady Eva! If we believe, we will succeed (and no, it's not the sugar in me talking...:D)

Did you say your goal yet, Cal?

[Charlie]

Writing dream? hmmm, Mines rather weird and no one will probably understand but I would like to sell enough copies of a book so that I could use some of the money to get my family out of bankruptcy. Like I said I know this is weird, anyway it would be nice to be published and inspire a few people.

[Rafael Domination]

Like I said I know this is weird, anyway it would be nice to be published and inspire a few people.


Dude...That ain't weird...It's a couple of good goals, y'know!

[Empress Artisan]

The whole world never loves a writer. Many people do, but there will always be people who don't. I know people who don't like JK Rowling. Imagine.

[Imelda]

Those people aren't worth knowing, though. :angel:

[Khaat]

Well. My dream is to become a successful photographer, or if not get a job working with animals. Writing is just my hobby really because I'm terrible at doing plots so I'll have to try and work on that. It would be nice to get a story published but I can wait.

[Micah_C]

I'm still pretty new to this but, writing as a career would be really really cool. All I'm aiming to do is get something published. Even in the school newspaper.

[InvasionGray]

I will become a writer eventually since I've made up my mind. I've finished writing a novel (in Chinese) but I'm not publishing it until I graduate from senior high.

[Imelda]

Aww you people make it sound so easy to 'get published'. XD Bless you all.

[Rafael Domination]

Sigh...I know what you mean, Meldy...I've seen your thread on how to get published, and boy was I enlightened...

Kudos to you!!!

Any vehicles in mind you people might want to buy?

[Imelda]

I love my car. If I did buy a new one, it'd still be a corsa, but maybe have a 1.2 engine ... my 1 litre is sooooo hard to pull away in!

[Varaz]

My writing dream?

I have none, because to me dreams don'T come true, so instead of posting what i WOULD do. I will tell you what i WILL do.

1 mil $ -
+-1 Buy my grand-mother a nice house for a handicap person,
+- Mom a house and a car
+- For my self of course a nice new car, and a nice house.
+- A very good pair of glasses

If i only have one million, i'd rather have 500k in the bank and have lots of interest :P Afterwards i would buy even more stuff,

[Rafael Domination]

Yay, Varaz! Two unselfish dreams from Varaz! Wooo-hooo!

I'd buy a jaguar E-type...

[Varaz]

Lol, why should i be selfish lol

[Rafael Domination]

You aren't: that's why I'm applauding you!!!

(clap-clap-clap)

[Varaz]

*- Varaz rises up and bows to the crowed, then shows his ass and screams - Eat my shorts - Then Varaz Runes off into the forest on a bear bottom*

Why thank you :P

[hushlove]

My dream is to hold my finished, published book in my hands and flip through the pages, knowing that I was able to collect millions of scattered thoughts from my strange, unimportant mind and create something beautiful that might actually matter.

Haha. I've though about this before :D

[Elie's_Golden_Heart]

My dream... To actually finish a novel, or book of peoms, and to get it published while I'm still a teen.

[TechnicoloredInsanity]

To start and finish a novel.
And be happy with it.
Mainly to be happy with something I write.
After I'm happy, then publishing would be great, but not my dream exactly.

[Arthur-Dent]

To finish and publish my novel. I would write under a pseudonym just cause I'm like that - not exactly sure what under though. I want the cover to be simplistic and not very flashy, but effective.

[Zombified]

My dream is to have either a collection of my short stories published, or to have a novella published. I would write a novel, but I don't think I am ready for it.
Just looking at a published book with my name on it would mean the world to me.
Isn't it the same for you?

[walkingcompilation]

I'd love to be published, but before that happens I need to get better. That's what I want.

Also, I dream of getting more feedback on my latest story. *winkwink*

[khaaalil]

always be inspired to write more. It's hard to get myself to write even though I love doing it

[Dunnskee]

Have you posted anything yet, Khaaaaaaaaaaaalil?

I want to start writing a brilliant novel, get paid a huge starting bonus from a mega-publisher, write the rest of it without writer's block or stress about my deadline, and for it to get released in the mid-fall so that it'll have a huge holiday season to look forward to.

Then the money will start pouring in monthly. My agent (my uncle) and I will quit our jobs and build middle-class sized houses but pack them full of nice things.

My book will become a cult phenomenon and it will start up millions of readers designing T-shirts, quoting lines from the book, and making indie films about it.

People on writing sites will begin to make thousands of fanfics over it, but I will sue them and make more money!

A sequel will be demanded, and I will already have the ideas formulated, so I'll write the next one. While I am writing it, Fox or New Line Cinema will call me up and say, "We want to make a movie about it. It's friggin' fantastic." I'll agree and will write the screenplay.

But they won't find a good director, so I direct it, along with the guidance of Stephen Spielberg and Peter Jackson.

The second book will catch fire in the media and EVERYONE will love it, and they will have posters saying, "Harry who?"

I'll make millions and write another novel to complete the sequel, and follow up with the next two movies.

I'll be free for the rest of my life to relax with my wife and occasionally write for fun, but those projects will become ultra-successes as well.

I'll continue to direct films until I get old and retire to some obscure coastlined country and spend my days enjoying my life.

[khaaalil]

Lol, no. I already stated I don't write.

[Arthur-Dent]

Lol, no. I already stated I don't write.
You don't write? Why are you on a forums called Teenage WRITERS then?

[khaaalil]

You don't write? Why are you on a forums called Teenage WRITERS then?

Someone needs something I like to call comprehension skills...

bro r u still mad that i said punk is a joke? You're acting like a little kid.

[Antithesis]

I don't have a writing dream because I'm too weak to take any criticism. I do have a dream of world domination though. :D

[slant]

Here is something I wrote a while back on the subject:

to be thrilling compelling, especially in a well written book. Every time I looked at one of those very few well-written books, I thought, If only I could. If I could manipulate words to sound so fluent, to paint a picture of something that might never exist, so well, that it might as well. To put together piece by piece, word by word, a story that could be remembered like the ones I remembered, was so tempting. I want to spread the magic in the words, I want to write something that will last for generations, loved by people like me, who are eager to let words paint a picture in their hollow mind. I believe I write to grow. The more I write, the more I notice how my word paintings get better and better. More detailed, more vibrant, bright, exciting, tragic. Writing is like painting. I’m trying to up my skills to write the masterpiece we’ve all dreamed of.


Madness is what the greatest artists have been. Music artists have taken drugs, going mad, becoming a legend as we know it today. The truth is that if you have such a mad idea, such a madness, such passion, it turns into the best well written story you could ever write. Betrayal. Death. Love. Passion. We see Shakespeare, Van Gough, everyone express such an extreme it is irritable. Like Pandora, knowing not to open the box, but she did. It’s a passion. The madness, is a passion.

There is nothing wrong about writing to push it in people’s faces. The anger, and madness that comes from it is what pushes someone to write a novel not only to be loved, cherished, but even if it fails, for those words to be on paper, for someone someday to read them and know, deep inside, that this person was angry. This person was mad. This is revenge. It’s the ultimate satisfactory. Each book has a hidden message, you know.

[Olea Laurifolia]

I'd really like to finish the story I began to write, and maybe someday publish a book or two...

Maybe publication isn't so important anymore, seeing as I've already been published. I'd be in heaven if people love my work and tell me they want more because it's all they could think about. That's a little bit too exaggerated, but having people who just adore my work is great. ^__^

[Sheckerbeans]

Wow Dunnskee, you're obviously someone who finds joy in life's simplicities... *cough cough*

Me? I'd like to finish the novel I'm working on and get it published. Not because I pay through the nose to have it published, but because it has potential out in the real world.

I can live without being published though. What I could never tolerate is lack of improvement. My true dream is to continue to improve as a writer until the very end of my days.

[Sarawr]

I'm not sure if I want to pursue writing as a career.
But, I would love to just write something sooo powerful and meaningful in such a disturbing or true way that someone is really affected by it. I want my masterpiece to be lifesaving. I want to prove myself wrong by living a full and fulfilling life and have it documented for someone to read and wonder how I made it through with such thoughts in my head and actions to speak of. That's all. :)

[Lykaios]

My dream . . . To be remembered . . .
Sure I'd love to be published and succesfull, but I'd like to work in BBC children's TV and have a family . . . Theres lots of things people want from life but the best thing I want is to be remembered.
Charles Dickens, Shakespeare and all the old classic authors that died yonks ago are still remembered today because of their stories, and thats what I'd like. Children in generations to come reading my books in class . . . But thats a dream i probuably wont know about so, ??? While I'm alive I'd like to make my *future* children to be proud of me, to go pick them up from a friends house and see my book on their shelf or something.
Alex Rider is a hit right now and so is Eragon *though theres debate* but will those authors be remembered in 100 years or so? I doubt it. JK Rowling I hope will be remembered, and Philip Pullman. Lots of people have written succesful books and have earned lots and lots of money but the big proof of wether a book is good or not is how long its remembered for.

[pegasi_quill]

Spot on with the "being remembered" part, Random, I totally agree with you :). Living on through something you wriote sounds good... it's like even though you're dead, you've left some part of yourself behind and so you won't be forgotten and...

There I am, thinking out loud again. I really have to stop doing that.

[darkprophetess]

I suppose you have a point with the books staying famous, but I've read amazing books that few others have heard of. Some of the books that have made most impact on me are the most obscure ones I've read. Fame and popularity, even over a long time, are no indication of quality.

[pegasi_quill]

No, of course not, I whole-heartedly agree, darkprophetess. But even if you aren't that well known, you're still remembred by the ones who do stumble upon your work. So, even the authors without the popularity of J.K.Rowling, or Phillip Pullman, are still remembered by the people who read them.

[Ascension Dystopic]

H.P. Lovecraft is an interesting example of that. When he was writing in the 20's and 30's, he was virtually unknown. But his readership has increased so that now, seventy years after his death, he is a staple and father of the modern horror fiction genre.

'Course, that isn't my writing dream. That would suck.

[darkprophetess]

'Course, that isn't my writing dream. That would suck.

Hehe. I agree, it would be quite annoying if everything good that ever happened to you after you were dead. Like Van Gogh.
I'm scared now. Maybe I'll become something boring instead, so I can be sure of getting money before I die.

[pegasi_quill]

You can always have a normal, boring, regular job and be a well-known published author at the same time :)

You can always try to do that, anyway.

[Ascension Dystopic]

Hehe. I agree, it would be quite annoying if everything good that ever happened to you after you were dead. Like Van Gogh.
I'm scared now. Maybe I'll become something boring instead, so I can be sure of getting money before I die.

Oh, Van Gogh. A lesson to us all: lead-based paints are bad.

[J]

Poets get all the pussy! Only reason I do this shit!

[Lykaios]

Darkprophetess - "I've read amazing books that few others have heard of. Some of the books that have made most impact on me are the most obscure ones I've read. Fame and popularity, even over a long time, are no indication of quality."

Good point but wont you remember them? and then tell your kids/ . . . so in a way those unknown books you love will be famous to you/family/friends? I think fame comes in lots of different forms and the best ones will be remembered even if they are not bestsellers because of the feeling they gave their readers and like you said, the quality of the writing.

[Lena]

Well, I know this is just a repeat, but I want to be published. I think it'd be so cool to go to a book store and say, "Hey, I wrote that book."

[Bekyy93]

To be good at what I do whether it's writing or not and to have my written work published sometime in the future :)

[Akuchi]

I'd like to make a lotta dough, foos. ^.^

Really though, I want what I write to be remembered. I want to be right up there with all those dead guys who made a difference in literature. I'm not looking to state my political oppinions because I have none, I'm not seeking to brainwash mineless children, I don't want to promote war, terrorim, or whatever, and I'm not going to justify why that person killed all those people. I want to simply be remembered as the one who wrote a damn good story.

And I know that's contradiciting to the dead guys who all had a point to their writing, but maybe somewhere along in life I'll find myself with a point to write about.

[lilshowtout91]

hmm, my writing dream...well I first of all really want to improve my writing and at least finish my book series since I have had this story in my head for 6 years and I don't think that I can go by my days peacefully until I at least finally write them down. I am writing just for me right now, but if I am ever lucky enough to get published (which is my ultimate dream even if nobody knows who I am.) I'm really not in it for the fame or money. I don't think a lot of writers are. I just want to put my story out there for at least that one person who will say that it helped them when they were sad or who now have the inspiration to write after reading my book. Yeah, that's why I would want to be published

[-Amikatie]

Has actually any teenage been published and gone really far?

I'm not saying that's my dream because though it does sound amazing my writing isn't great and I hear it costs a lot of money to publish a book.

[Imelda]

Christopher Paolini, though we have doubts as to his ability. :rolleyes:

Catherine Webb was 14 when she was published, and the quality of her writing and plots is consistently high. Unfortunately she didn't get the marketing Paolini did, and most mainstream bookshops don't stock her anymore, so it's tough getting word out about her. So she hasn't done *really* well, but it's not her fault.

[Bowie20049]

My dream is to get it published. I know it sounds unreasonable, but I would love it to be a little well known. I would love an animated series on it :P.

[Shaz]

My dream would be to finish editing my novel as soon as possible, send it off to a publisher who reads it and thinks: 'You know what? This isn't too bad!'
Then it would get published and would have its own little window display in bookshops with a picture of me beside it and people walking down the street would see me and go: 'You wrote that book!'
Then if I wanted to say an extremely insane wish it would be that my book would go worldwide (at least America, because the size of there compared to Ireland!), it would be made into a movie with all my favourite actors in it and I would get to be a consultant on set. The movie would also go worldwide and I would be going to all these Hollywood parties ...
... Sorry! Got a bit carried away! Started daydreaming and my fingers got carried away!

-Shaz-

[Bowie20049]

My dream would be to finish editing my novel as soon as possible, send it off to a publisher who reads it and thinks: 'You know what? This isn't too bad!'
Then it would get published and would have its own little window display in bookshops with a picture of me beside it and people walking down the street would see me and go: 'You wrote that book!'
Then if I wanted to say an extremely insane wish it would be that my book would go worldwide (at least America, because the size of there compared to Ireland!), it would be made into a movie with all my favourite actors in it and I would get to be a consultant on set. The movie would also go worldwide and I would be going to all these Hollywood parties ...
... Sorry! Got a bit carried away! Started daydreaming and my fingers got carried away!

-Shaz-

I love this generic dream. Similar to mine and many others except I would want an animated series since trying to fit a whole book into a two hour feature is ridiculous :)

[Danika]

My writing dream...

Write something GOOD.
Write something people actually LIKE
Write. I never want to stop, even if life gets hectic.
Writing is my escape, my dream is to keep writing as my way to fly away with the pixies :)