Over Christmas break, 8-year-old Dillon Helbig of Boise, Idaho, wrote an 81-page illustrated book titled “The Adventures of Dillon Helbig’s Crismis," ignoring reasons others cite for not writing books.
When, despite my best efforts, people find out I’m a writer, many of them tell me that they have a good idea for a book they’d like to write one day. I’m always polite, and ask them what the book would be about, and honestly, most of the time it sounds like it would be a pretty good book — if it existed.
Another issue is that once the book is written, there is the problem of publishing and finding an audience. This is often what discourages me from executing the books I’ve thought about writing. Is it worth the time if you don’t know if it’s going to be published or read?I worry that some measure of my own doubt leaks into my responses when people tell me about their hypothetical books, and that I’m discouraging them from doing something they may find deeply fulfilling.
And kudos to the librarians in Boise who understood what it means to be able to share a part of yourself with the world.
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