Stories

Luke Hammond
Sep 2, 2018 · 2 min read

Stories.

They’re like arseholes; everybody’s got one, but not everyone wants to know about yours. Some are long, some are short. Some make you wince in fear, others make you swoon with love.

A timeless medium used to pass knowledge and power to generations, providing not only entertainment but enlightenment. I remember reading as a child, forever in angst of what delight or misfortune would greet me on the following page.

No everyone is built to tell stories. It comes to some as a gift, using the power of their voices to preach an ancient gospel. Talking to people is one thing, but talking TO people is another.

That’s why I write. Somewhere inside my head, the possibilities of an empty page are more inviting than the roaring cheer of a crowd. I write because I want to tell.

What I want to tell is often spontaneous and frantic. An eruption of emotion and thought, engulfing each page with the destructive force of words. Some say the pen is mightier than the sword; if I’m riding into battle I will do so with my pen at my side.

Everyone has a drive, something that keeps them going. A deep longing inside them to do one thing more than anything in the world. After taking an unintentional few weeks off, the paragraph above has become more and more relevant.

I’ve had an almost addiction-like need to write, dependent on the inexplicable rush putting pen to paper gives me; a bizarre feeling that has been surging through my body, eating away at my mind. It wasn’t that I wanted to write anything in particular, I just needed to say something.

This new feeling has made me realise something; it unlocked a door deep inside me that I never realised I had the key for. I want to write. Right now, and for as long as I can that’s all I want to do. It gives me a way to escape all of the bullshit and worries that cloud my head, and stop my emotions from flooding my life, destroying everything in its path.

Not only is this for me, it’s for you, my readers. I want to take you with me on the fantastical journey I’m about to embark on as I grow into the writer I want to be. Together we will plunge ourselves into a portal leading to a dimension only our brains can explore, armed with nothing but words to expel the darkness of the unknown.

Luke Hammond

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Scribo ergo sum ~ I study Marketing and write things. Oh, and I’m a bit of a nerd.