Summer

"Let your tears fall down like the rain and your smile come like the rainbow after it." 

Summer! 
The sun is finally here! At least in my imagination. Let me dream! No, but seriously though. It was actually here today, together with the rain. Can't complain that much, though. It's the Swedish summer I guess!
What am I discussing today? Motivation, maybe. I don't know. I just wanted to post an update! One of my... well, one of the people I know I suppose I should call her, she's not exactly my friend... but, anyway, a publishing house bought the rights to her book and she's getting published next spring! My mind was blown! And then I got really pumped and printed out two chapters of my own book and started to proof read. Which I haven't had so much time to do lately. Especially since I have to do things during the day too.
   I was so motivated! I should have printed out two more chapters or something. I'm sure I would have read them all! I was smiling, I was happy and motivated. I've done some amazing things. This book... wow, I kinda blew my own mind away today. I just looked at it and said "Wow, this is good"! But I do also know that that's not how the whole book is. Because, character development, guys. If my characters were this awesome at the beginning there would be absolutely no point with this book. Except the smiles. Lord, did I smile!

Writing is such an amazing thing. It makes me smile. It makes me grow. Both as a person and an author. I'm still learning. And I want to continue to learn. I want to be able to write books that I can hold. Books I one day will be able to show my future children when the time comes. And on that day, in the future, I will read the book again and just... sigh. Because one day I will know more than I do today. One day in the future I'll be able to write exactly how I want to. I look forward to those days. I will wait, but until then I will also live. I will learn and write. I shall live my life and learn. That itself is a motivation.
   Another one is a very special friend to me. She's been there since my first, crappy book. She has been by my side, complimented my work when I couldn't find anything good with it. She's been the one telling me that she looks forward until the day she can hold my book in her hands and read it. She's told me that I've made her smile. And, after all that's what I want to do. I want to make people feel even when they don't want to. I want them to be able to escape the world and smile.
   At least with this book. A love story can always make one smile. My next one on the other hand might get a lot darker...

Now that summer has come it's time for new beginnings. I'm soon done with the proof reading and with the book. Soon I will send it to the publishers and see what happens. And then I'm gonna start a new book. Plan a new story. See new characters grow old. It will be a journey, an experience.
   You have to get rid off all the stones before you find the gold, remember that.
   And motivation is the key! Inspiration is easy but getting really motivated is a challenge itself!

Let summer bring new beginnings with it!

-- Selma

I'm not dead!

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” 

― Albert Einstein

Well... It has been a small forever since the last time. Six months, apparently. And lately I have been thinking about this blog more and more. Did I want it to die? No, of course not. Was it the right thing to do? Maybe. Who knows? Not I.
   So, what have I been doing the last six months?
   I would like to say that I mostly have been writing. That would, however, be a lie. But, I did actually finally write the end of my book. So, I'm proofreading it while planning the next one and hoping for the best in the future. I've been competing in some contests -- writing of course. I've taken some photos, like come on. It has been 6 months, of course I used my camera!
   But the most important thing probably is that I've started to learn more things about myself. I've found goals I want to reach in my life. And not just something more on my bucket-list. Bigger things. About myself. Not my desires.
   I've realized that the right moment very rarely is the perfect moment, or the other way around.
   I've learned how important it is to smile, and how easy it actually is.
   I've gotten a clearer picture of the future I want more than ever. And, that, that truly is something. Exploring yourself is harder than exploring the world.
   And you're really lucky if you already know what you want and have a plan to deal with the problems! And... Don't count on it too much. You'll change. Your friends will change. Your view on the world will change. If you don't already have reached your goal, remember to focus! You have to be determined if you're going to reach it with one of the thousand of plans you're going to have!

I don't really have a lesson this time. It's more of a "You do you and I do me" post.

   You should always be your own number one on your priority list. You should always try to find things about yourself that you love. And you should never take less than you deserve! You're amazing just the way you are. No matter what the colour of your skin is. No matter whom you are attracted to, or not attracted to. No matter what you identify yourself as, or not identify as. None of these things actually matters as long as they are a part of you. A part of you that you can be proud of. You don't have to love every single part of yourself. But self-love is the best kind of love that you will ever find. It's the most empowering kind of love.
   I hope you'll have a magnificent life and that you love yourself! Be proud of the person you see in the mirror. And if you're not, maybe it's time to change it.

/With love
Selma