| If you've been to any of the large chain | | | | that may just spur you to action, to put pen to |
| bookstores lately, you'll know that they are | | | | paper and let that story out of your head, onto |
| overflowing with books of every topic you can | | | | the bookshelves, and into the hearts and minds of |
| imagine, and many that you can't. A quick peruse | | | | millions. |
| through the large fiction section shows that there | | | | Next time you are at a bookstore, pick up a |
| are stories about all kinds of plots with all kinds of | | | | couple works of fiction. Look at the cover. See |
| characters. Aliens, Russian spies, animals who can | | | | the name of the author. Imagine it as your name. |
| speak and act like humans, drug crazed | | | | Hold the book in your hands, and take a quick |
| hallucinations. You name it, and somebody has | | | | mental photograph of the book. Then close your |
| written a story about it. Because their books are | | | | eyes, and see the book again, but with your |
| sitting there in the bookstore, that means two | | | | name in place of the author's. |
| things MUST be true about the person that wrote | | | | When you do this, you will be giving your |
| that book. One, they have been published and | | | | unconscious mind a powerful direction and |
| two, they are making money. | | | | message. Your ideas are worth writing about, and |
| If you've ever had a dream of writing a novel, | | | | you believe in yourself enough to get started. |
| getting published, and seeing your book on that | | | | Whenever you have a doubt, imagine your book, |
| shelf next to all the others, but have been putting | | | | with your name. |
| it off, I have an assignment for you. Something | | | | |