Who I Am
I started out writing at a very early age, but I suppose that’s not a surprise. I’m a professional writing student so I’m sure I just opened my bio the same, generic way that every other student did. 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. I grew up fully immersed in creative writing.
My writing journey started with what my cousins and I used to call ‘the two sentence game’. To briefly describe this, everyone was handed a standard lined piece of paper. We all sat around a table or in a circle on the floor and set a timer for a minute or two. We would all start a story, writing up to two sentences. Once you were done writing, you would fold the page, so the last line is showing and then pass the paper to the person to your left. So, the next thing you wrote, you only had up to one line to go off, but most of the time you only had one or two words. The papers were passed around until each page was filled and given back to the original owner. Then we would read them all out loud. We were all awful writers back then, but it was a fun challenge that consisted of weird aliens and things getting blown up. After that, I began to experiment with short story writing and found out how awful I am at poetry. Then, in high school I made my first attempt at writing a novel. Let’s say the idea was there, my writing was not. That is why it has taken me five more years to perfect my writing enough to have completed my first novel that is in the editing process right now. I write because I think words are undervalued now. I think everyone has a voice, and not every voice needs to shout in order to be heard. Words can spark emotion in the reader as much as a video or movie can, the only problem is convincing people that it is worth their time to pause and read. Dedication is something I believe myself to be good at, because I think my writing can always improve, no matter how good I believe it to be.
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