Dream Enough To Wait For It

I was twelve when the idea of becoming a successful writer first stuck me. Being a small town girl and belonging to a middle class family with a no family background of anyone being in a literature field, it was a dream next to impossible. But you know, the problem with small town people is that they always seek for something out of their legacy. And that's how legends are born. My desire was to make my dream of becoming one of the youngest Indian authors come true. I started in my summer vacations of 10th standard and completed my book in 2 months.

Writing was easy when my mind was so full of thought. Hard part came after it was done. I thought, what now? No one in my family was willing to help me because they beli

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eved it was too feeble to dream for something like publishing a book at the age of twelve. I didn't give up. I sought the help of the best invention of 21st century. I worked all nights and morning. I even remember skipping a whole day sleep to write, edit, rewrite my story.

I approached 52 publishers and got rejected by 50. And finally when one of them matched with all the thoughts I had in mind, I went with them and published my first book at 15.

Yes! It took me 3 long years to finally get my dream fullfilled. Maybe not in the way I wanted but definitely in the way I needed to step ahead in my life. Since then I never looked back.

Dreams maybe worth dying for but they are definitely worth waiting for.