TheFountainhead

Rose Red

inspire

Saminoes Pizza

Beduessey

Audrey T.

Jinxeh

Dedicated to Tania Roxborogh, who was the first person to say, "You can do this" to me and then helped me to learn how.

I first began writing seriously in 2006 while taking a course for young would-be writers. Before that I had a lot of ideas, but no knowledge of what to do with them other than to store them all in my head. I only really wrote when it was for a school assignment – but even then I was the girl who wrote ten pages instead of two. Now I take that as a sign that I had so much to say that when given an outlet, I took thorough advantage of it.

However, the writing course really inspired me to realise that I could pick up the pen of my own accord and play around with what came out of it. Very quickly, I learnt to love doing that and when most other things in life failed to interest me, writing pulled me in further.

I mostly wrote original prose and some poetry for around a year and then got into fan fiction. It wasn’t a huge discovery. I had begun to really appreciate music and then I stumbled across a piece. “This is…interesting,” I remember thinking.

Is it a surprise that my early attempts were abominable? Now though, I’ve grown up a lot and it shows in my writing. Since I still have a lot of growing still to do, I’m hoping that this means my writing will continue to improve.

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality does not destroy you." - Ray Bradbury

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