Thirty Days of Inspiration ♥: Day One: Writing

I haven't posted much about it, but I felt like it was time to let you all, whoever reads this, know this.

I am a writer.

One of the biggest influences in my life, writing has stuck with me since the beginning. I can actually tell you that I started out hating writing. I hated writing essays, I wasn't good at writing stories, and I just felt like it was a waste of my time.

But I loved reading.

Reading was a way for my little mind to explore the different aspects of the world and taste the flavors in the world that were a little out of my reach. I've read everything from Because of Winn-Dixie to Nancy Drew to literary classics like Wuthering Heights (which I could not finish because, despite the beauty of it, eighth graders are not meant  to be reading a book with words they had to write down, look up, and re-read). The point I'm trying to make is that words are what inspire me. They are also, now that I've been introduced to Creative Writing, the outlet for my inspiration.

Writing has become such a vital point in my life that I just don't know where I would be without today (cliché). I was always one of the most brilliant academic people in my learning career as of now, with dreams of six figure jobs and being a jackass-kicking professional, up until I was-and this is where ish gets cray-chosen to be the speaker of the words. Sort of like Speaker of the Dead except less creepy. Once I fell head over heels in love with writing (kudos to Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson for inspiring me to write my first poem), I just knew it was what I wanted to do, what I will be forced to do for the rest of my life because once you go black you can't go back, know what I sayin'?

But, yeah. Writing is the purest form of love and expression for me and so that is why I thought it fitting to make my first post about what inspires me to be writing.