Clare Henney: Living the Dream

12:00 PM | | Posted by Clare Henney

This was such good news.

When I read about the story of Samantha Sotto and how she got her book, Before Ever After published by a major company in the US, I was sincerely happy for her. I think that her achievement is an amazing thing. She’s living the dream – my dream.

Since I knew how to read and write, the one thing that I wanted to be was to be a writer. I used to write short stories onto my elementary school pad papers and on our old PC (black screen, green font and all). To this day, I have a ton of story outlines that are waiting to be written that I dream of converting into an actual book (or movie or TV show, whatever applies).

While I know that Ms. Sotto is probably not the first Filipino who got her book published internationally, I still envy her. I want too! More than any achievement I can get in the job I have now, getting the opportunity that she has had would be the best thing that can happen to me.

One of my goals this year is to finish one of my writing projects and try to get it published as well. If not, maybe I could do it myself. Either way, I’d like to have it distributed to other people and see how far I can take this dream. I know it won’t be easy but it’s something that I want to try. I think that there’s nothing to lose with trying. The worse thing to do is to not do anything at all with this dream. Hopefully, this year can be the start of me acting on this dream. I’m looking forward to reading the book Before Ever After to try and see why Samantha Sotto got the opportunity that she had…maybe I can learn something from it. Here’s the trailer for the book…enjoy!