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      Stories. They spark imagination.      Some stories aren't so good, sometimes they're just rip offs of actual talent.      But others are AMAZING. They are made of tears, fluff, light, love, action, and beauty all bound together by a paper spine.        No doubt you're here because at one point in your life, you've been inspired to write one of those absolutely amazing stories.       What was it that enthralled you? What is it that captures the muses and creativity of so many everyday?        There are so many different stories everywhere… Different genres. Different morals. Different themes. On, and on, and on .        With each story, we as readers get a glimpse into a fictional world that seems so real we can almost feel the character's heartache as we read. They shape the way we perceive the ...

***Disclaimer: all words in this post that are italic are some of the lyrics from Kitchen Sink by Twenty One Pilots, that I have remixed for this post, they don't belong to me. Enjoy*** nobody thinks what I think nobody dreams when they blink think things are after me my catastrophe Are you searching for purpose? pointless curses nonsense verses you'll see purpose start to surface no else is dealing with your demons meaning maybe defeating them could be the beginning of your meaning, friend nobody thinks what you think no one empathy might be on the brink of extinction they will play a game and say they know what you're going through they don't know you go away go away go away go away go away go away go away go away leave me alone leave me alone leave me alone leave me alone leave me alone leave me alone leave me alone leave me alone LEAVE ME ALONE don't leave me alone

     As a writer there is one major thing I need to stop doing: comparing myself.     If you're a writer, I'm sure you've struggled with this too. But today I am not going to tell you how to stop comparing, if you want to read an awesome blog post about comparison, check out Melissa's amazing post that she did a while back, The Comparison Trap       Writers compared themselves way to much. We also tear ourselves down a lot. I'm a bad writer. I'll never write like them. The haters are right. I'm just not good enough.           STOP. Listen, life isn't easy. No exceptions. Which means even the things you love in life with a fervent passion won't be easy.         If you think writing is going to be perfectly easy always, well, you can forget it. Nothing, nothing, nothing, is ever effortless.         Please...

          Am I too young? That thought hasn't haunted me in a long time. In recent years, I have become less self-conscious about a lot of things, my age was one of them. I realized that age was just a number, and that it didn't define me.    Sure, I know there are some things that rely on my age. I can't drive until I'm sixteen. It will always be hard to find work until I'm sixteen or seventeen. I can't marry until eighteen, unless my parents sign papers or something, (not that I plan on being a teen bride or anything, goodness, no !) I can't legally move out until I'm eighteen. I can't drink until I'm twenty-one. The list obviously goes on.    But I don't let my age define me as a person in general. I do what I like, and I like what I do.    However, even though I haven't let my age determine the stuff I am passionate about in a long time, this week a doubt crept into my mind; what if I'm not old enoug...

             As you may have noticed from the title, this isn't a monthly wrap-up post. I've never done a monthly wrap-up post, because the sad fact is that I have little to no life, and the stuff I would write about is sad and painful and I don't want to write a “leave me sympathy comments” post, and liquid nitrogen really hurts, *cough* because I am a rebel, deal with it. XD      In fact, I don't even have a post for today! *ducks to avoid the rotten tomatoes*      Don't worry! I'm actually working on a post right now, it should be posted by Wednesday. Instead, today I have a question to ask.     If you haven't noticed the Writing is Life family is steadily growing, along with the blog's personality as I become more at home with this whole “blogger” thing. I have been thinking about this for a while and I don't really know what to do, so I've decided to ask y'all…  ...