Writing and I

1. I began writing when I was six or seven years old. If I remember correctly, they were all small paper books all with "It was the day before...". My personal favorite was the one I wrote about the day before school. After that, I never regularly wrote, but I was still an avid reader. I remember reading "Ender's Game" when I was in second grade after watching the movie and then knowing that one day, I will write something like this. When I was in 6th grade, I heard about a kid in the 7th grade that wrote a trilogy. That pushed me write, but all I ended up with was a really short prologue about a 12-year-old girl and aliens. Then a year and half ago, the pandemic hit. I began a on a novel idea that I had for a while, but it wasn't where I had wanted it to be, so I stopped mid-way. It was only a few months ago that I found Prose when I was searching for writing competitions, and here I am!

2. To me, writing is expressing myself. My ideas, me, are on that page. Writing gave me something that I had forgotten about: my confidence. Every time someone reads my words, I feel like I can do anything, like a rush of happiness and a burst of confidence. Writing gives me something to be proud of, and I've loved every second of it.

3. My ultimate writing goal is to write something like "Ender's Game" or "The Hunger Games". I have always wanted to make my own world, my rules. I also want to prove to myself that I can do it. I want to have millions of people to know my pages, ponder over what I had meant. I want to be able to shake the world with my writing.