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I Write


because I have to—because

the harmonious voices of characters sing

in my head, begging for their lives

to be spilled into an abyss of words

on paper, the net that captures it all.

I write to practice the power that

I have been given, to satisfy that

need in my soul, to prove everyone

wrong. I write to share a piece of me

and a piece of my family, my friends,

my life, the life of another world. I write

because I have friends who believe

in me, who love that I fight, with paper

and pen, to show that I can and will

become an author no matter how long

it takes. I write so that I can swim happily

in the sea of words that create fantastic

places and creatures, so that my parents

will understand my dreams and hopes and

fears, so that they will learn that they cannot

sway me so easily. I write about toys that come

to life for Film, monsters who haunt innocent

people for English Gothic Fiction, numbers that

dance and confuse in the minds of humans for

Math. I wish to write for a living because writing is

my merry home, my wild imagination, and my beating heart.

 

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