Everyone has at least one area of their life where they succeed. For me, it's in my writing. For as long as I can remember I've been writing stories. I've posted a lot of my works online and have received such amazing feedback, and it has only made me want to work harder and learn more. I'm always looking to find different tips and tools to help advance my writing. It's been my dream to be someday published. Writing is my life.

I've always found a sense of comfort in my writing. I've put so much of myself into it because it seems to be the only way I can get my feelings out. I have never been very good at talking about things. I can express myself when I show it through someone else. The characters I create, each hold a piece of me.

When you write, you have control. You get to create this whole new world, people, everything. Writers are an artist too; it's just that our masterpieces are inside of our minds. We try to convey the picture, the story, in words for others to interpret. That's the real beauty of writing. The readers get to fall into the author's world and see what they see but in their own way.

Writing can be an emotional process as well. I give it my all; I truly live the story as I write it. I cheer with my characters, and I cry with them, my heart breaks and heals just as theirs do. When I'm writing, I might physically be in the room, but mentally, I'm long gone. There have been times where my fingers are moving so fast, and I'm so far gone into my own little world, I'll write entire scenes and not know a single thing I wrote until I go back through and edit.

I never know how my story is going to go because I'm not one to plan. I do a small outline of my characters and the description of things, but then, I just write. I let my imagination run wild and see where it takes me. It's fun for me because as I post a new chapter, I'm excited along side my readers about what's going to happen next because I don't even know.

I like to try to inspire people, or at least connect with them. I want them to be able to relate to some aspect of my story so that they can get something out of it. I also want to know that there are people out there that understand me. I want to know that someone out there gets it. I want them to find that piece of me that's in there and get it.

There are some things that I have yet to express. That even though I'm not directly saying them, I can't bring myself to tell. I can't get my characters to feel that way or say something I wish I could. They already tell so my much of my story, though. Whenever I'm going through a rough patch or even a happy one, I write it out. I create just a small little story, and my characters live out my feelings. They take any pain I have away from me. Even though in the ends it's just all me, sometimes it feels real. Sometimes it's as though my characters are caring for me and want to make things better.

I write a lot for myself, and I know that's how it should be. You should just write for you. But, I like writing for others. I like writing what people need, what they want. I never go outside my comfort zone, or what I know I am capable of writing. I just want people to read.

I believe reading is important. We spend too much time on electronics and not enough time reading. I want people to read. To learn, relate, to escape. That's what it's all about, in the end, escaping. Whether you're a reader or a writer you want to be able to get away.

I will always be a writer. Whether I end up published or just stay in my small community of followers, I will write.