When
I was just a little girl, I would watch my father consume many daylight
hours scribbling down words with a pen, a yellow legal pad, and a cup
of coffee. I never understood what the allure of writing was. Why would
you want to write about silly things such as dragons, or magic, or even
the not so simple subject of love. People had already written about
that kind of stuff. We had the books to prove it! But when I was
fourteen, I finally understood what was so special about losing myself
in written words.
School
was never my favorite thing, growing up. I was never popular, enough to
have more than a few friends. I didn't date, and I didn't hang out
after classes were through. What I did was try and see what my dad saw
when he became entranced in his own words. I started a very amusing and
immature series called "Dragon Tales". This was long before the kid
show of the same name came out, mind you. It followed a young girl
named Tee who found another world somehow and dragons and strange
people. I can read it now and laugh.
But
I had found the secret! So involved was I in my writing, that it became
my passion. A fourteen year old who, all she wanted to do was write. I
loved falling into the world I created, deciding what was going to
happen to who, and when and where it would all take place. I had a few
friends read it as soon as I finished every chapter, they were into it
that much. And when the book ended, I started another to be in a
series, and the the third one after that. But then I got bored.
It
wasn't until a dream I had a few years ago that the story I was
supposed to write found me. I won't get into it now, there's a whole
other page for that. People think I'm crazy when I get excited about my
characters, but they don't know them like I do. Not yet.
Please
come inside. Immerse yourself in my world and see what I see. I will
tell you now, it is rarely a joyful place, but it is a place to set
free all the emotions you've been hiding all this time. So many have
inspired me along my writer's journey, I can only hope I do the same
for others someday. So get a cup of coffee, sit back, maybe grab a
yellow legal pad and a pen, and enter.
