Writing

How do I become a writer? I don't even know where to start. I know that you need to have impeccable writing skills to get a book published, matched of course with an ability to develop quality ideas into full blown novels, a piece with just the right amount of detail that your reader doesn't feel overwhelmed, with an interesting plot that keeps them captivated and a compelling protagonist that they feel able too relate to and even though I know all of this, the writing doesn't come easily. I would like to believe I am not that terrible but with this I want to be incredible, to write about things I am passionate about writing, I know it will improve and develop as I produce more works, for me its about the journey, I could sit there and focus on the dream, the big picture, the end, but then I would miss the middle, the climax, the story. When I read I don't flick to end to ensure that I know what happens, I travel through the journey with the protagonist, spending long nights reading because to put it down makes you fear what you'll miss. I want to be the author that produces a character loved by others, to bring to life a person of my own imagination someone that takes the best and the worst traits of the people I know, envisioning them into one body, and with these traits watching as they come to life on the pages, in a world created by me. I know why people read, because I can relate, I read to experience what you may not get to experience, I don't read to hide from the world, I do it to better understand the world. A protagonist came from somewhere, how they react came from a real a muse, someone the author has meet that inspired them to use the trait to benefit the character and the story they want to tell. No character si black or white, good or evil, right or wrong, they are just a person, trying to deal with their life the way we deal with ours. If a piece is written well, you can almost feel like you are right there living it as well, those moments when you are reading a book and you look up and it takes you a split second to realise that you aren't in the book, to remember your own life, those moments make me smile every time, when I read I get excited for that feeling, it make sit more real, and its how I know I am enjoying what I'm reading. Books make me go okay I want to do that, I idolise characters, look up to them and often at times shape my behaviours around the traits they posses that I deem desirable, because all writing is there to inspire you, to tell you a message and show you a story, every piece of writing can teach you something if you let it.

For me I want to write, produce works of art I am proud to call my own, to go places and talk to people I never knew were there because they inspire my own characters, my own beliefs and my own world. I want to cause others to feel the way I do when reading a really good novel, I want to inspire others to see beyond what they see normally, inspire others that they can go extraordinary places and demonstrate that every person is incredible and they should give themselves a chance to shine. For me, this is why I write.