So I’m kicking off my return from my brief break from the blog with a question for all you writers.
Why do you write? Or maybe we can go back a bit further with, why did you start writing?
I remember back when I was 6, we had a school assignment to write what we would do to help a new student get used to school. I remember enjoying it quite thoroughly, so I kept writing.
My first story which I still have was called Jurassic Park 4. I was a big fan of dinosaurs back then. I also wrote a Lego story because that’s what I was reading back then.
To take a bit of a serious turn here,
I kept writing through my elementary and middle school years because I had a troubled school experience with bullying. Whenever the real world was miserable or sad, I wrote. I created my own worlds within Star Wars and terrible revisions of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. At some point I had the idea to write a full novel. I had just completed a story that was about 50 pages and the thought of a full novel didn’t seem so far fetched anymore.
So that’s my small history,
Why do you write? Why did you begin writing?
ZinnWrites 
I’ve been writing, according to my mother, since I was little. I didn’t get serious about writing until I was fourteen and had been bullied. These poets had come to our photography camp and told us to write whatever we wanted. So I wrote about being tormented. From there, I’ve been at it. I’m trying to get more serious with my writing at the moment.
I write because it gives me peace. I don’t write every day, but when I do, I feel good. No one really reads my writing, but I am thinking about using my blog to turn that around and show it to more people. I don’t know what I would do if I did not write. I’d be dead or in a mental hospital if I didn’t.
You should totally do that. Unless you write for just yourself, you never know what your writing can do for someone else. This is a great outlet for that.
I know I’ve shared a few poems and have gotten small, but good response for them .