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You've just finished the latest Harry Potter, and repeated your well worn rhetoric, 'I'd love to leave work and write a children's book.' Only this time, something snaps, and you realise it's your partner.
'Either put your pen where your mouth is, or shut up about your mythical writing.' Shocked into doing both, you chew it over on the train to Canary Wharf the next day. That evening you're ready with your considered response.
'The bank doesn't approve of sabbaticals. I'd have to quit and we can't afford that.'
'Yes we can, and more importantly, you'll be able to spend quality time with your children.'
The familial pressure on you is palpable. You retreat to a last ditch spreadsheet investigation into your household finances only for them to betray you with your solvency. Your dream is about to turn into reality.
That's how my ambition to write became fact then ultimately fiction. The doomsayer in me warned that it was impossible to succeed in an already overpopulated market, but my ego laughed at such cynicism. As should yours if you wish to follow me down the path to publication. I guarantee if you do that you will be shocked and surprised at what you have managed to achieve in a year's time.
But first, you must ask yourself, 'Do I really have what it takes to become a children's author?' Answer these questions to find out:
If you answered with a resounding YES, then you were born to be a writer, and it's time for you to embark on my twelve point programme to authorial success.
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