Welcome readers!
This is my first blog post ever so excuse me if I am jumpy and overly excited.
Well, I am a college student and an aspiring author. I started writing when I was in second grade. Parts of me always wanted to a writer. I found myself daydreaming so much and I thought my ideas were genius! Well, maybe I had some good ideas? But I lacked the tools I needed to write cohesive paragraphs and even just hold a plotline.
Throughout elementary school and middle school, I wrote a lot. But my mind (and friends) were telling me to follow different paths. Obviously, I went with the ideas that people were telling me and not what I knew I should be doing.
Then I entered high school, duh duh duh! I had a plan going into high school and it seemed pretty good to me. Instate college with a degree in, culinary arts classes, then working in the food businesses. I was happy with that plan, but naive because I didn’t think that plan would change. It wasn’t until May of my freshman year of high school that I noticed that plan changing.
What changed?
I never liked to read. I liked the Percy Jackson series and A Wrinkle in Time. Other than those, I fled when I was asked to read a book.
Then my English teacher handed me a book and it changed everything. I love learning so I always read the books that my teachers assigned for class but I rarely enjoyed them. When I got halfway through a certain book I fell in love with reading. That love has not died in the past five years.
You are curious about which book it is, aren’t you? Well, I wish I could say it was a profound book. Oddly, many people have not read this amazing book. It is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and even just typing the name of that book makes me happy! The descriptions of Gatsby’s parties and the life of the 1920s got me hooked. I couldn’t get enough of it and I remember pestering my English teacher with dozens of questions.
Check out this post about 10 things I love about The Great Gatsby.
Reading had never excited me before, and that brought life to my writing dreams again. I began to write short stories and poems (none of which were good, poetry is not my forte). Anything that came to mind, I would write about.
In conclusion.
That is how I got to be an aspiring author! I read a book and felt the urge to write a better story with more relatable characters. One that people would fall in love with the way I fell in love with The Great Gatsby. I have one manuscript under my belt that I will talk about in a later blog post! But, for now, I leave you with that small glimpse into my life!