TOM YUM Soup for the Soul

Recently got my hands on the latest ERAGON series of book, BRISINGR. The whole book series surrounds the life of this young boy who was chosen with a unique destiny to be a Dragon rider, with a dragon, strong powers and an army of soldiers to defend the forces of darkness and unite the races on the face of the earth. Typical fantasy war, fighting story. I was drawn because of that but I thought to highlight the author because few would know how inspiring his story is.

Christopher Paolini was homeschooled by his parents. As a child, he often wrote short stories and poems, made frequent trips to the library, and read widely. The idea of Eragon began as the daydreams of a teen. Christopher’s love for the magic of stories led him to craft a novel that he would enjoy reading. The project began as a hobby, a personal challenge; he never intended it to be published. All the characters in Eragon are from Christopher's imagination except Angela the herbalist, who is loosely based on his sister.

Christopher was fifteen when he wrote the first draft of Eragon. He took a second year to revise the book and then gave it to his parents to read. The family decided to self-publish the book and spent a third year preparing the manuscript for publication: copyediting, proofreading, designing a cover, typesetting the manuscript, and creating marketing materials. During this time Christopher drew the map for Eragon, as well as the dragon eye for the book cover

Some question you might wanna ask yourself:

(1) What was I doing at fifteen?

(2) Did I ever thought about my dreams being accomplished?

(3) Do I know what I was good at doing?

These were the questions that came to my mind when I read about Christopher Paolini's profile. Sometimes we just need to know what our dreams are and even find means and ways to accomplish them.

You really won't know what your wildest imaginations will lead to.

Just imagine!!! *winks*