What’s Your Dream?

[lunagraves714]

Why are you here? Long term, what is something you’ve always secretly hoped to accomplish? It’s totally okay to say fame—this is a judgement free zone, I promise. To be fair, I was definitely that one seven-year-old that told my whole class I wanted to be a pop star someday. Did it pan out? Meh.

But anyways, what’s something you really want in your writing/art careers?

For me, I hope someday I get fan letters. I don’t know why, I’ve just always been obsessed with getting mail that has my name on it and isn’t some random bill I forgot I even had. It’s a sweet concept to be able to inspire someone and brighten their day, especially by doing what I love. And besides that, I love engaging with readers. I love reading comments and being able to respond to others. It’s just an amazing experience.

(And okay...I want to be rich enough to own a vacation house in another country someday, but that’s less important.)

Your turn! What’s your dream?

[Prometheus]

Those are awesome dreams! I mainly want to just share my stories. I hope that they can help people. I tend to put themes in my stories that touch on self worth and accepting yourself. So my biggest hope is that, through doing what I love, through storytelling, someone can find something that will help them in what I do. I'd love to interact with others through fan mail. That would be cool. My biggest dream is to be a convention guest, though. It's not the reason I create stories, but I've always thought that it would be a cool plus to storytelling. Whether that happens or not, it doesn't really matter. I just want to do good. That's my hope.

[CytricAcid]

I want people to call people problematic for shipping the main pairing in my story because they misunderstand it.

okay in all seriousness, I just want some people who say nice things on my pages sometimes

[lunagraves714]

Whoa, I never even thought about conventions before! That would be so cool

@CytricAcid That’s a whole mood right there

[Freemints30]

Artwise (a pipe dream), I wish to look through Ao3 and suddenly come across a dedicated page to writing 10k + word fanfiction of my work with all the pairings possible.

That would be a dream come true

[lunagraves714]

Same, Tbh I’d love even the cringiest of fanfics

[Prometheus]

I attend a lot of conventions, and every time I go, I see some of my favorite voice actors and creators. And I think that - it's not really the fame that I seek, while that can be nice - it's more being able to interact with people, hopefully one on one, and make their day by helping them feel good about themselves. I hope that makes sense.

[lunagraves714]

Yeah I totally get that. I’m very quiet and reserved in real life, so being famous isn’t exactly my goal. At the end of the day, I just want to create something that people will love.

[Freemints30]

Really just people taking the time out their day to write it cus they love the world and characters that much would make me smile and die happy.

Even if it just high school AU with cheese ball drama instead of horror.

[Prometheus]

Yeah, I'm very quiet, too. I'm an introvert, but my wife has turned me into a half and half. XD Sometimes I'm super outgoing, and other times I'm super reserved. Whether I got to be a guest at a convention or not, I just want to help people. Yeah, I want to tell my stories, and I don't want to just throw hamfisted themes at them to tell them to feel better. But I want to at least do what you're saying: create something that people will love, and hopefully people can resonate with what I'm writing in such a way that it uplifts them.

And if people don't love my stories - at least I do. Yes, I write my stories with readers in mind, but I don't write to appease to readers, either.

[Prometheus]

Ooh, a fanfic would be cool, too. I'd like to see how other people interpret my work, or how their OC's would interact with what I've created.

[lunagraves714]

Cheese ball drama is the best drama

@Prometheus I think you just inspired me to go to a convention someday once this pandemic clears up

[Prometheus]

Oh, really?! Conventions are my favorite. I hope this year they allow them. If not, I understand, but I really hope that they have them open. It's super fun, at least for me, to watch people interact with each other. It's also just fun to be in an atmosphere where everyone loves the same stuff you do. And some of the actors - it's really fun to go to their booths and see that they're just as human as the fans are.

[Black_Conscious]

When you reach at a certain level like having fan letters it shows you have accomplish something, what an interesting dream you have

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My dream would be of a film producer(?) or somewhere in that field, it is because I want to start making my own stuff instead of seeing the same thing on tv that doesn't get my attention that doesn't have that certain spark it needs.
(This part is some of the reason that's led me into writing)

I guess an Historian as well? or in the future once I am at a certain point in my life is to have enough money for myself which means that I am taken care of and to be able to give back to the people in America.

[DasIstWunderblyat]

To stay in it

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Serious note: To have some Tumblr blog analyze and breakdown my characters or story elements (symbolism, foreshadowing, theme, recurring passages, etc) under a microscope and I got "Huh? I didn't even think about it."

[lunagraves714]

It honestly sounds like a lot of fun!

And @Black_Conscious I think the film producer goal is awesome. I’ve always wanted to try turning my books into screenplays so I can pitch to film directors in the hopes of producing the movies someday like you said. It’s a shame most theaters are closed nowadays, but I have faith they’ll reopen eventually!

[lunagraves714]

Yeah I can definitely get behind that! It would be cool seeing someone else’s take on my work. They’d probably come up with some hidden theme I never even considered.

[therosesword]

Well, I'm an older fart so I've had a nice little career in audio drama. Started out in plays, film scripts etc. Done work for other people, I don't know if it was ever produced or not, as long as the check cleared the bank, I was happy. And I've done the advertising copywriting etc. stint etc. (used to be able to do fairly decent haiku's in about 2 minutes)

All of my past work was 95% script work and very little prose so I'm here to see if my writing chops can do this, too.

But my biggest dream isn't for me. A friend's son is my intellectual property heir (Yeah I've got a last will and testament, something I had when I turned 30 and am now past that. Something you should have if you've got intellectual property and want to see it go somewhere specific) Anyway, my friend's son is my heir and I want to leave him a good solid body of work. He's an actor/musician/singer etc. and works in film so... it's pretty much all for him.

Write hard, write true.

[therosesword]

It's always interesting to see the changes. I had a copy of the original script to "Highlander." Quite change. My story here on Tapas (Dead Souls Doing the Samba) was optioned for a screenplay. I've written them and didn't want to do it so the company is doing it. Right off the bat they were mentioning things that were different and I'll be interested to see the first draft. I trust the writer and the company so... we'll see.

[lunagraves714]

You have an incredibly noble goal, and I respect that. I wish you the best of luck in achieving it.

As for the screenplay, that’s amazing! I’m sure the final draft will turn out great, but I hope they don’t change too much.