my goal is to tell stories that inspire and uplift people.

 

but good stories--damn good stories--take time.

 

days, months, years of writing and re-writing, rephrasing and editing, 

 

draft 1, draft 2, draft why-isn't-this-as-good-as-the-first-time-I-wrote-it-down and

 

draft this-won't-work-but-that-won't-work-either but that's how goals are

 

goals have concrete blocks chained to their ankles 

 

but dreams make their own rules.

 

and my dream is to write a book so damn good

 

that Israel and Palestine have to drop their guns and bombs and run home

 

and find the nearest chair and the fuzziest red blanket and read

 

with their hearts in their throats and their palms dripping as they turn the page

 

so good that North Korea finally opens up trade with other countries

 

because if they missed out on something as damn good as my book, what else have they missed out on?

 

I want to write a book so good that the US and the UK become embarrassed of their armies

 

and quickly disband them while they think nobody's looking

 

My dream is to create world peace by opening the eyes of my readers so wide

 

that they can feel pain before they cause it.