I've witten stories for so long i couldn't even tell you when I first started, but I'd like to say it was when I was seven years old. I've used my writing for a number of reasons; battling depression, anxiety, anger, and basically my teenage angst. As I've grown up I've learned that not all writing needs to be depressing or angry, but can be happy and crazy. I love reading books with a little more than one mood, don't you?
You may ask why I enjoy writing and my reason behind it is that its just something I was born to do. I grew up listening to stories for my Dad and my Aunt, I loved how they created worlds with just their words. I decided that writing was something that I wanted to do, but I wanted to take it farther than they did, I wanted to get published so that more and more people could enjoy the worlds that I created. I want people to fall into my books and to feel the characters emotions like I do. I get so attached to my characters, I live through them at times and I know it sounds odd, but I talk to them often. My characters have opinions, they have choices and I listen to them. The way my stories go are often a suprise to me, its rare I know an ending to my own book.
Writing has always supported me and has helped me through some tough things so I feel like it is my turn now to share that with the world.