A Story they Won't Forget

The best way to be remembered,
Is to tell a story they won't forget.

I thought about this while fading asleep. It's aggrivating becoming brilliant with stories, poems, and words that flow effortessly through your head while trying to sleep. I don't ever have the energy to find a pen and write them all down. I'm halfway between reality whenever words come to me.

I always looks forward to my dreams. It's where I find the majority of my inspiration. I dream about silly meaningless things and some dreams that have all the meaning in the world. Some dreams I will never forget.

I look forward to stories, I don't know a person alive who doesn't. We find them in conversations, in books, in movies, in our daily routines, and so much more; stories are literally everywhere! As a writer, I have found wisdom in listening. If you're attentive, you will find gems for your writing. Even tonight, I overheard part of a story,

"The doorbell rang. I was sound asleep in bed, so I looked at my alarm clock - it was 2 o'clock in the morning. I thought I might be dreaming, but there it was again. I shakily put on a robe and went to the window, there wasn't a car in the driveway or a shadow on my porch. I began to wonder, who would be ringing my doorbell at a time like this?"

My husband said to me, "That was an interesting, wasn't it?"

"Yep," I replied. "It'd make an interesting story for a book!"

I am trying to become more alert for those gems to write in my journals or store in my head, because you never know what you'll find when you're listening.

I don't want this to sound vain, but someday, I would like to write a story they won't forget. I want to write a story like Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, or Rowling: stories that transported us to a world we wanted to be apart of. These writers have inspired me so much to be more. They will always be remembered as brilliant artists who navigated the words to worlds beyond our wildest dreams: who wouldn't want to go there? Who wouldn't want to do the same thing? Stories: the compass we hold in this life. I pray God gives me the inspiration and vision to put words on paper like that. For a story they won't forget.