What should I do when my creative dreams feel impossible or too unrealistic?

I wrote the world's first novel in a place where women weren't supposed to have that kind of ambition. So I have some thoughts on "impossible." The question isn't whether your dream is realistic by current standards—it's whether it's real to *you*. There's a difference. What I mean: when something calls to you from deep inside, when you notice details about it obsessively, when you find yourself returning to it even when it would be easier not to—that's not a delusion. That's your interior life insisting on being expressed. But here's where realism actually enters: impossible dreams don't fail because they're ambitious. They fail when we treat them as all-or-nothing. Break the dream into the actual, daily work. A novel isn't written in a moment of genius—it's written in small observations, in sitting down regularly, in patience. Your dream doesn't need to be realistic by the world's measure. But your *practice* does. Can you show up tomorrow? Can you notice one true thing? That's realistic. That's where impossible dreams become real.