What Now?

“WHAT again?” you asked yourself at your desk. Your laptop’s wide open, you’re facing towards a window that serves today’s morning light. Though the weather is fine this morning, your forehead wrinkled like a tangled bedsheet.

This Friday, you’ve decided to take a break from your daily work.

“I wanted to take some rest,” you said to your boss and co-workers two days ago. But yet, in the meantime, you take this time as a dedication for your writing gig to pursue your biggest dream as a full-time writer.

You take a deep sigh, a spectacle stand on your nose, you heard some leaves dancing with the wind in front of the yard — having a duet with birds in the sky and between trees. The cursor on your laptop blinking — waiting for you to type another word.

Thinking of another word and contemplating it inside your head, you take a quick sip with your coffee and then start writing it. As time goes by, your fingers move faster on your keyboard.

You shed all of your contemplating results before, hoping for the readers to fully understand and connect with your writings.

Ten minutes later, you stretch out your finger and let out a deep and relieved sigh.

Your very first novel has been done.

“Finally,” you said to yourself, smiling widely. Your day off from your daily work is not wasted at all.

It’s a good moment for you. But, for a second, you think another thought. Your first novel has been done, then — what now?

Does it great enough to captivated the editors you came to send email your first draft?

If it’s a good one, then you’ll be one step closer to reaching out to one of your biggest dreams here. But if it’s not, you have to think of another way to captivate other editors about your first draft.

“What now?” you ask again, deep inside your heart.

Your eyes all of a sudden catch a one-row quote under your laptop screen. Wait, when did I put this thing on?

It says, ‘you don’t know anything if you haven’t tried one.’

Well, that’s kind of random, but now you smiled at that quote, begin wrapping up your first draft and send it to some editors out there.

While hoping there’s gonna be a ‘congratulations’ message appears in your mailbox.

Cheers!