The Dream Doer League

Finding a way to do what you dream should be fun, exciting and adventurous.  Why bother otherwise, right?

That’s why I’m making achieving my goals—like writing my second novel—into a sport.  I get to practice my writing.  I get to play games with my writing.  I get to earn points for my writing. 

And the sport of Dream Doing begins today.  Game on!

But it’s not going to be much fun if I don’t get to be part of a team.  After all, belonging to a team is the best part of any sport.  Your teammates encourage you, support you and challenge you to always be better.

As a team, you get to work together to achieve your goals.  That’s what being part of the Dream Doer Team is all about…belonging to a group of people who want to help you make your dreams happen.

If you’re reading this blog right now, you’re my Dream Doer Teammate.  Our team’s mission is to find a way to do what we dream every day.

Your dream to do something about can be anything you want it to be.  You also don’t have to wait to live your dreams.  No matter how old you are, you can find a way to do something you enjoy doing every day.

I enjoy writing, so my personal mission is to work on my novel every day.  Except Sundays.  I’ll take a break from writing on Sundays to keep from getting burned out.

Between now and January 28, I want to complete a very bad first draft of my second novel.  To get me closer to that target, I wrote a very basic outline of half the story today.

I like to outline on index cards, so I put the major action of each chapter at the top of the index card.  I now have 28 cards with a one-line summary of each chapter.

Then what I like to do is summarize the action in that chapter on the card.  I find the system that works best for me is to write out the action of about five chapters at a time.  Then I’ll write the actual story, summarize the next five chapters, write, etc.

I filled out five index cards today and plan to write those five chapters tomorrow. 

That’s how I did something about my dream of writing my second novel today.

How did YOU find a way to live your dreams today?  Leave a comment and let me know!

To your dreams,
Bonnie Jean