Comments on: Dreaming http://jauntyquills.com/2007/01/26/dreaming/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:37:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Robyn DeHart http://jauntyquills.com/2007/01/26/dreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-16115 Robyn DeHart Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:31:28 +0000 http://jauntyquills.com/2007/01/26/dreaming/#comment-16115 Rainy, oh, I'm so glad you found my words helpful. Good luck with that dream of yours. Rainy, oh, I’m so glad you found my words helpful. Good luck with that dream of yours.

]]> By: Rainy http://jauntyquills.com/2007/01/26/dreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-16111 Rainy Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:27:56 +0000 http://jauntyquills.com/2007/01/26/dreaming/#comment-16111 Robyn, Well, of course I am reading this a day after post time, but good words never go stale. Thanks, for this blog. You don't know how much I needed it. Years and years and years ago, while I was running a bed and breakfast in Vemont, one of my guests were talking about ambitions/goals and how we never seemed to reach them. Well, we said we would give ourselves five years to accomplish it. Sounded good. I never heard from him again so I don't know his story. I do know that for a while I worked hard at honing my craft. I actually had an agent and a book that was circulating publishers. Many rejections and then me and my writing seemed to fall of the face of the earth. Dabbled her and there, but no motivation. This blog has reminded me that writing was a passion and a dream, but one I allowed to become buried. I feel a stirring inside me that I've got to listen to and start acting on. Thanks for the great words, Robyn. Robyn,
Well, of course I am reading this a day after post time, but good words never go stale. Thanks, for this blog. You don’t know how much I needed it. Years and years and years ago, while I was running a bed and breakfast in Vemont, one of my guests were talking about ambitions/goals and how we never seemed to reach them. Well, we said we would give ourselves five years to accomplish it. Sounded good. I never heard from him again so I don’t know his story. I do know that for a while I worked hard at honing my craft. I actually had an agent and a book that was circulating publishers. Many rejections and then me and my writing seemed to fall of the face of the earth. Dabbled her and there, but no motivation.
This blog has reminded me that writing was a passion and a dream, but one I allowed to become buried. I feel a stirring inside me that I’ve got to listen to and start acting on.
Thanks for the great words, Robyn.

]]> By: Robyn DeHart http://jauntyquills.com/2007/01/26/dreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-16090 Robyn DeHart Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:46:57 +0000 http://jauntyquills.com/2007/01/26/dreaming/#comment-16090 Clarisse, well, I hope it was inspiring for someone. I wasn't too sure it was all that coherent, I sort of felt like I was rambling. Helen, you're so sweet. Thank you! Shana, glad I could help. Lois, reach for those stars, my dear! Thanks to all for sharing your dreams. Clarisse, well, I hope it was inspiring for someone. I wasn’t too sure it was all that coherent, I sort of felt like I was rambling.

Helen, you’re so sweet. Thank you!

Shana, glad I could help.

Lois, reach for those stars, my dear!

Thanks to all for sharing your dreams.

]]> By: Clarisse http://jauntyquills.com/2007/01/26/dreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-16087 Clarisse Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:12:09 +0000 http://jauntyquills.com/2007/01/26/dreaming/#comment-16087 Robyn, thank you for sharing a wonderful story. I sometimes wonder how many truly talented writers there are out there that we will never get to read because self-doubt and well-meaning but unsupportive friends and family led them to give up just a little too soon. You had a dream and you didn't give up on it and now we all get to enjoy the happy result of your persistence. Now that's a story with the hard won happy ending that we all love. I'd like to think that someone is reading this post today and it is giving them the hope to keep going just a little longer. I know it certainly inspired me today. Robyn, thank you for sharing a wonderful story. I sometimes wonder how many truly talented writers there are out there that we will never get to read because self-doubt and well-meaning but unsupportive friends and family led them to give up just a little too soon. You had a dream and you didn’t give up on it and now we all get to enjoy the happy result of your persistence. Now that’s a story with the hard won happy ending that we all love. I’d like to think that someone is reading this post today and it is giving them the hope to keep going just a little longer. I know it certainly inspired me today.

]]> By: Kathryn S http://jauntyquills.com/2007/01/26/dreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-16075 Kathryn S Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:08:39 +0000 http://jauntyquills.com/2007/01/26/dreaming/#comment-16075 Robyn, I too was unagented when I sold. I hadn't entered any contests and my heroine was foreign. It boils down to something I've started to believe when it comes to this business. There are rules yes, but if you can make the book work, then it will get bought -- different or not. Robyn, I too was unagented when I sold. I hadn’t entered any contests and my heroine was foreign. It boils down to something I’ve started to believe when it comes to this business. There are rules yes, but if you can make the book work, then it will get bought — different or not.

]]> By: Helen Sibbritt http://jauntyquills.com/2007/01/26/dreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-16073 Helen Sibbritt Fri, 26 Jan 2007 20:30:01 +0000 http://jauntyquills.com/2007/01/26/dreaming/#comment-16073 I for one am so glad you held to your dreams because I love your stories I have them all and really loved them. I don't aspire to be an author but I dream to retire so as I have more time to read all the books that you all write. I have always encouraged my children to to go for what they want in life because I firmly believe that if you really want to do something it might take time but you will get there if you hold true to your dreams. Have Fun Helen I for one am so glad you held to your dreams because I love your stories I have them all and really loved them. I don’t aspire to be an author but I dream to retire so as I have more time to read all the books that you all write. I have always encouraged my children to to go for what they want in life because I firmly believe that if you really want to do something it might take time but you will get there if you hold true to your dreams.
Have Fun
Helen

]]> By: Danny http://jauntyquills.com/2007/01/26/dreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-16068 Danny Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:27:43 +0000 http://jauntyquills.com/2007/01/26/dreaming/#comment-16068 I have to big dreams. First to leave Germany and to live in the US, second to finish my book sometime. I have to big dreams. First to leave Germany and to live in the US, second to finish my book sometime.

]]> By: Lois http://jauntyquills.com/2007/01/26/dreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-16067 Lois Fri, 26 Jan 2007 19:17:30 +0000 http://jauntyquills.com/2007/01/26/dreaming/#comment-16067 Oh me, since I was five I wanted to be an astronaut. I'm 30 and still do. :) Lois Oh me, since I was five I wanted to be an astronaut. I’m 30 and still do. :)

Lois

]]> By: Shana http://jauntyquills.com/2007/01/26/dreaming/comment-page-1/#comment-16066 Shana Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:52:48 +0000 http://jauntyquills.com/2007/01/26/dreaming/#comment-16066 Thanks for sharing that blog today, Robyn! I needed a bit of a boost. Thanks for sharing that blog today, Robyn! I needed a bit of a boost.

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