I have a dream of being as accomplished of a writer as JK Rowling; but I'm sure it's just a silly dream of mine.
Though a couple friends I used to work with at Sitel seem to think I'm going to be a billionaire author one day and I've been sharing my rough drafts with a few people. I have 4 chapters plus a prologue written of my book and I'm on chapter 5...and experiencing writer's block.
We'll see I suppose.
It's fun to laugh and joke about it, but I doubt that I'll sell more than a few copies here and there. I'll likely just self publish, possibly on Lulu.com since they seem to be the best bet I've seen so far.
I take it Cuckoo's calling is the book she published under a pen name. That's interesting. She's indeed a talented writer, but I haven't read any of her books outside the HP series. I really enjoy Harry Potter and the fantasy/science fiction genre; and reaching into other genres might be difficult. I'm finding it difficult enough to sit down and read anyway because I have a short attention span.
But I am bringing myself to read a book called "The Goblin Wood" which I'm finding quite fascinating:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/248 ... oblin_Wood I picked this one up at a yard sale for a quarter. But it's a pretty good read if you enjoy fantasy works. It's not that I don't enjoy reading, I just have a hard time sitting down and reading for very long. Yet if a story is posted on say, Deviant art it's easier for me to scroll through it and read it. Yet, I'm not really ready to jump into the kindle thing either. I like traditional books. I get a warm fuzzy feeling when I walk into a book store, especially in the children's section because it takes me back to my childhood days. But I find myself wanting to explore my own ideas more I suppose, and write them out. But getting them out of my head and onto paper is like trying to swim upstream. I have tons of story ideas; and I get distracted easily by each one. Sometimes my mind will soar off into those realms of fantasy when I'm at work, if I'm not serving customers. Sky Kingdom is my priority book though. That's the one I want to see published.
I love the floating candles idea. Whether I go for a Harry Potter theme or something else (I usually just do something generic for Halloween with the usual black cats, pumpkins, skulls, witches etc.) I think they'd make a great edition to the decorating.
I'm happy to see younger kids are still into it as well. It means the story will live on for generations, and I think you're right. I think it'll become a classic. I need to collect all the books. I used to have the 7th book and I never finished it; it got lost when I mailed myself some books down from New York state to Virginia using the Media Mail system, as it was cheaper that way and they were all books in that box. It got hijacked somewhere along the line, and 90% of what was in that box was gone. The post office wouldn't replace it either, I had to have "proof" of how much the books were worth to use the insurance. Some of those books I don't think I'll ever find again since they were little booklets that you'd find in the checkout line at the grocery store. Finding a bunch of books at that yard sale for a quarter was a blessing. They didn't have all the Harry Potter books, but they did have the 4th one which I didn't have before, and a bunch of the warriors books which I'd been meaning to read.
Plus they celebrate both Halloween and Christmas in the stories; but I think Halloween seems a more appropriate holiday for Harry Potter.
