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I Want to be a Writer.
My passion growing up has come back to take over my life, and I love it.
Growing up, I got in trouble a lot for something unconventional:
Reading too much.
My parents would limit the number of books I could buy from the Scholastic Book Club pamphlets that came to school each month. “You can pick one thing,” they said. So of course I picked the four book boxed set every time. They always let me get it!
At the dinner table, I got reprimanded for reading and not engaging in the conversation. My mom took to taking the lamp out of my room at night so I wouldn’t stay up all hours, engaged in a novel (eventually I got a book light, so you know how that worked out).
I loved reading. Disappearing into a different world, attaching my heart to the trials of a brave but terrified protagonist, refusing to turn a page in dread of what comes next. I lived in every story I held in my hands.
Eventually, I began writing my own. I based my first stories on whatever TV show or book series I was into at the time.
In elementary school, I wrote fanfiction about Harry Potter, and an anime series called Yoroiden Samurai Troopers. At fourteen, I crafted a speech about peace as Heero…
