When I write, I don't know where the sentences are from, where the characters and the whole story outline are from. They just arrive whenever I am taking a shower and announce themselves to me and I have no choice but to put pen to paper. I don't just want to write a story, I feel a story too and every time I write, I become so surrounded by the thoughts in my head and I just have to release it, and put pen to paper! Lots of people want to write books and the books that want to be written that are most successful.
I really want to make words my future. Every time I gaze at the computer blank screen, conversations, plots.... everything start to come to me and my fingers will start to punch in the keys and words start to appear on the screen. After I've finished one conversation or one scene, I will want to jump to another one. There's a lot of times I have spent hours on the computer, typing.
I write for fun. I really love to write. When I was 13, I wrote my first story, and honestly it sucks. It's about princesses and witches. I remember the second story that I wrote is when I was 14, at that time I was crazy about Harry Potter and I wrote Harry Potter 8. I was so proud of it because it was the longest story I have ever had at that time.
I always say I don't know how to write love story but the truth is I do. The first love story I wrote was when I was 15, it's called A dream of a dream-The tower of London. I can still remember where I got the idea from. I had a comprehension test about the Tower of London when I was in Grade 8, after I got home, I stared at my computer and ideas just came to me like a punch. Though it wasn't the best, but I like it. I keep writing stories. Usually every year I will come up with a new one. I've written two stories about abnormal life and superpower, called Psychic, and the other one called Everyone dies around me. I tried to write a detective story but I failed, it's never finished. I cant finish it because I really don't know how to write a detective story, I'm sure those who can must be really smart. LOL
Anywayz, after A dream of a dream-The tower of London I didn't write any love story until 2 years ago. After A dream of a dream-The tower of London, all my stories are about supernatural, things that will never happen in reality. My mum always says I am weird, I always watch this TV shows or movies about monsters, vampires, supernatural and I even write stories about those. Anywayz, let's talk about the reason why I wrote my second love story 2 years ago.
I had a big fight with my close friend when I was in Grade 10. She gave me the inspiration to write The Crossroad. The first draft really sucks. I showed it my sister and one of my friends, both of them told me it was boring. Well, it's true, because the story is based on what truly happened between my friend and I. I didn't add anything to it, I just simply wrote the entire thing. That was when I realized an interesting story cannot be all about real-life. You have to add a little fantasies here and there to make the story nice. The first draft only had 46 pages but then after editing, it's now around 160 pages. I showed that to my best friend, and she really loves it. She told me a while ago that she still reads it from time to time and I am really so happy to hear that. She is so encouraging and she is the reason why I started the second one after The Crossroad. I wrote The U-Turn because of her. There was one time during Christmas, we hanged out and she asked me, "You've written the first one, and I really love it, have you ever considered of writing another one related to it?" If she never asked, I would never write The U-Turn. These two stories were the longest and I think the most successful one among all the stories I wrote.
I really think it's really important to have someone close to you to like you stories and to encourage you and that is what makes you never stop and continue to write.
After The U-Turn, I stopped writing for a while, but as you know, I started a new story You're my boy friend but you aren't my boyfriend 3 months ago. I've decided to use that one to make my future and I'm sure I can do that. (Wish me luck!)
Cecilia Ahern, who wrote PS I Love You, can be the youngest writer (21 year-old), why can't I? I wont let age be an issue with writing. I may not have seen enough, known enough, but I sure know what when I write. It's always funny to me that sometimes I've had never experienced some kind of things, but when I am writing, I just know how to write. I just do.
No matter how many obstacles there are, how many rejections I will receive, but I won't give up because every person who dislikes my work there are so many more who may love it! Successful books get turn down several times before getting published, so I'm sure one day I will succeed!!!!!!!!!!
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