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Melva J Henderson's
Success Story
To me, success is in the eye of the beholder. I started this endeavor as a writer because of a compulsion to put the words and scenarios swimming around in my head onto paper, then as time progressed and computers hit the scene, the compulsion drove me to the keyboard. I have self published the books I've written after wallpapering my office with rejection letters from both agents and publishers for some years. Many might tell you that self publishing doesn't a success make, but my success in my own eyes is merely to have my words out there for anyone interested in them to read. Because I so enjoy writing, it could be said that I write for myself I suppose. The books I have self published include a variety of genre; Historic Fiction, SciFi, thriller, children's stories, poetry, short stories, non-fiction, paranormal, a memoir; in essence whatever came into my mind. I may be fooling myself, but merely having a book I've written read by a single individual is a success in my eyes. I believe success means something different to each of us. My previous employment as an instructor for developmentally challenged adults allowed me to realize the value of success in the eyes of the beholder as I encouraged my clients to feel their own sense of success in small acheivments each of us tend to take for granted; such as writing a short story in their own words, successfully answering questions we learned in my classes about creatures of nature, balancing their check books. A multitude of other small things accomplished that each of us take so much for granted represents success to someone who is developmentally challenged. Success indeed, no matter how small, is in the eye of the beholder!
