There's a reason to why I write. Every author has his or her reason,right? Either we have something to share, we want to change the world,or simply we want someone to listen.

There's a quote I hold dear to my heart.

"There is nothing to Writing. All you do is sit down at a Typewriter and Bleed."
-Ernest Hemingway

People always ask me if it's hard to write. My response is always no because to me writing is bleeding out on the pages hoping to express everything that I am. I leave my soul in my books and novels because I hope one day they speak to a kid, a young adult, someone who is struggling and needs that one novel that they can read over and over again. That novel that they have marked their favorite quotes or scenes with dog eared corners so they can revisit that precise moment when they felt emotionally attached to a character. The way the words made them feel like they had some small portion of hope left. Maybe it's just a part of a story that touches their soul and they fall in love all over again. Maybe that scene describes exactly how they are feeling at the worst or best time in their life and they weren't able to explain it till they read that quote. Till that portion in their favorite novel made them feel like someone finally understood exactly what they are going through. I want to be that inspiration to open an individual up. I want to be able to inspire people. I want someone to look at me and say because of you I never gave up.

I want someone to feel this because that's what I feel every time I pick up one of my favorite novels. I want someone to fall in love with my characters and my words on a deeper level like when I was fighting Voldemort with Harry, or making new friends with Sam and Patrick along side Charlie and finally opening up. Or when I was fighting the Volturi and standing up for my family with Bella and Edward or taking a stand with Tris or leading the nation with Katniss. Or when I was strengthening myself with Bianca or leading a war along side Aslan or reinventing myself with Pip in Great Expectations or finding that Catch- 22. Or when I was talking about the hatred I had in my life like Hannah and that's why I killed myself or I was starting over with Jonas and saving the baby's life.

Each one of these novels spoke to me and shaped me into the individual I am today. I'm kind, and brave, and honest, and trustworthy, and a leader, but I'm also scared, and damaged. I'm broken, and insecure. But I'm unique and each one of these novels helped me to understand that. Every novel can speak to the most remote places in someone's mind and to me that is brilliant and extraordinary.

So I guess what I am saying is I don't know exactly that one reason why I write. But I do know what I want others to get from my writing. I want others to find something to cling to. That one thing that will speak to them on a different level and let them know that everything is going to be OK and that it's OK to be upset, or mad, or even hurt. Then to let them know that someone out there cares, because they matter. Everyone matters. I just want someone to see themselves jumping out of my books because they can relate to my own soul. I want to save someone because I know without the books I love, I never would have been able to save myself.