Lies in a Season of Tribulation by Launa McNeilly

To keep myself optimistic about my life as a writer/author, I think about those that were minding their own business and someone walked up to them offering to make them a star. I'm keeping this clean. I'm not talking about the pervert or the pediphile. I'm talking about the agent that notices the beautiful girl, likes her mannerisms along with her beauty, and VOILA, she's a star!  No, I'm not trying to change my profession, just keep the dream alive that it still can happen. In my case, I'm looking at if from an author's position.  Take Stephen King, he finally got a book published and it was made into the movie, Carrie. That made Stephen King a star. Did he deserve it, of course, he is brilliant in the scary story department.  Was Carrie his best work?  Not by a long shot.

But it did put him in the position of writing some of his best as that was what he could concentrate on without holding down an outside job to feed himself.

I have watched some of these authors rise to star status in the writing world. Take Stephanie Meyers, now thats another story that keeps the dream alive! It wasn't overnight success but darn close to it in this world we live in. I'm not even going to get into the Harry Potter series but you get the idea. Yes, they wrote about fascinating subjects, vampires and witches, that caught on like wildfire, but once again, it took the promise of a movie, and with the sequels to come, that gave the superstar status to them. Do I write about such characters? No, and probably never will. That kind of story isn't in me, at least at the present time. Take Dan Brown, he made us think about something pretty central to most of us and got us questioning. Once again, made into a movie and now everyone rushes to buy  the new Dan Brown book. I'm telling you that unless your book gets made into a movie these days, you remain unknown. Not counting those already famous before they wrote a book.

I'm thinking luck has alot to do with hitting it big but talent does too. If you didn't write a good book then all the luck in the world won't get it made into a movie. I don't plan to sit in some coffee shop waiting to be discovered as the chances of that happening is just plain silly. Will my book be made into a movie? I think, predjudiced as I am, that it would make a great one but the chances are about as silly as sitting in the coffee shop. Although,as with luck, one never knows, now do we? That my friends is called optimism. That I'm loaded with as I wouldn't be able to write without it. Of course, some will call it foolishness though both have the same key ingredient, hope.