I started out writing at a very early age, but I suppose that’s not a surprise. Let’s go into the why of my writing. My mom graduated with a BA in English Literature and now she’s a part-time book formatter. My dad did a lot of things before settling on a career but one thing he’s always loved is marketing and using words to sell products. So, needless to say, it runs in my blood. I don’t just write to write, if I did, I’d be the most surface-level human on the planet. I live and breathe words. It came to my attention recently that some people can dream and imagine in pictures, it’s like seeing a movie for them. For me, on the other hand, I dream, think, and imagine in words. The colors and movies aren’t there, the descriptions of them are. So, like I said, my whole life is and has always been made up of words.

Books are a big part of my life. I am a firm believer in consuming writing so you can improve on your own. If anyone were to ask me who my favorite author is, though that’s an awful question to ask a reader, I would answer Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Many people get frightened by what we know as classic literature because it seems so serious and complex. The reality of most of Dostoyevsky’s books is old, pompous rich men fighting over spirituality and morality. One thing I have been challenging myself with lately is vocabulary. There are so many beautiful words that get long forgotten, replaced by slang phrases built by this generation. My new favorite word is flibbertigibbet, which means ‘a flighty person who is easily distracted’. So, if you don’t take anything else away from this, at least you’ve learned a new word because you cannot convince me that anyone knows that word exists off the top of their head.