Who is a hero or heroine? Somebody who risked their life, lost their life, or saved the lives of others? Then you find more in WWI and WWII. But a lot of it is grim reading, unless you bias your list towards survivors.
What about entertainers? I imagine I hear little voices objecting, surely a skater or writer is not a hero? If you have ever tried to write a best selling novel, or even a novel with a beginning, middle and end, a year later, ten years later, you will appreciate the number of hours you must dedicate, the hours of revision, the struggle to master grammar and punctuation, the effort of a day, a week, a month, in simply researching and compiling a list for a blog - before you even start creating metaphors, similes and memorable phrases.
What about money? Who is successful? The person who made the most money? One must admire those who started with no money and no encouragement and later were successful. Rags to riches. Cinderella. We want to know what kept them going, who encouraged them, which saying or motto they kept repeating in times of trouble which kept them going. Was it will poet alone? Or what you know. Persistence. Determination. Skill. Optimism?
I admire those who persisted despite discouragement. We, readers and writers, all love stories about authors who were rejected, but whose books were later a great success.
What about entertainers? I imagine I hear little voices objecting, surely a skater or writer is not a hero? If you have ever tried to write a best selling novel, or even a novel with a beginning, middle and end, a year later, ten years later, you will appreciate the number of hours you must dedicate, the hours of revision, the struggle to master grammar and punctuation, the effort of a day, a week, a month, in simply researching and compiling a list for a blog - before you even start creating metaphors, similes and memorable phrases.
What about money? Who is successful? The person who made the most money? One must admire those who started with no money and no encouragement and later were successful. Rags to riches. Cinderella. We want to know what kept them going, who encouraged them, which saying or motto they kept repeating in times of trouble which kept them going. Was it will poet alone? Or what you know. Persistence. Determination. Skill. Optimism?
I admire those who persisted despite discouragement. We, readers and writers, all love stories about authors who were rejected, but whose books were later a great success.
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