When I was 8 years old, at school I would always follow through with the crowd. I used to do what everyone else was doing, read what they were reading, play what they were playing, say what they were saying, watch what they were watching.
So, when I was trying to find my hobby, of course I tried to do what everyone else was doing. I tried sports, drawing, painting, crafts and reading. Unfortunately, only one of those hobbies stuck with me.
I did not excel in sports, I was great at copying drawings but I couldn't draw anything on my own, my paintings looked like if Hellen Keller was painting them, my crafts were always falling apart and I'm pretty sure I have self-diagnosed dyslexia so reading was hard. I did try to do some writing and like everything in my life at the time, it was just a copy of the popular 'The Magic Treehouse' series but I did enjoy it. So I ended my journey of finding out what I was so good at, with finding out I was only good at copying other. (Funny thing about this, I hated being copied lol like I used to get so mad when people were copying me and I was just like, can you stop lol.)
Now as I analyze my childhood to find out why I am the way that I am, I realize that my favorite thing to do when I was little was play with dolls. I am proud to say, I had the best storylines for these dolls and I could control what they did. (Call me Light Yagami) As I grew out of my doll phase, I enjoyed playing the sims and life-simulation / role-playing games like that. I was in control and could boss them around and do whatever I wanted.
I eventually made my own storylines with my dolls (and didn't copy any other storyline) and tried to write them down and make a story out of it but I was so all over the place. (I say that like I'm not all over the place now lol)
When I was 7th grade, I read my favorite novel ever, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton and I did more research about it and Ms. Hinton, that research lead me to many other things that sparked my inspiration for writing.
I found out that not only could I make my characters do whatever I wanted like when I was playing with dolls but I could create characters like in sims and instead of buying a downloadable expansion pack so my character could do more, I could just make my character do more for free. I could even put myself in the story if I wanted to. Since I learned that, my passion for creative fiction writing blossomed.
In 8th grade, I wrote a 6 page short story because I was so angry; by 9th grade I was consistently writing 4 novel sized stories every year. When I was taking World Literature for my 10th grade literature class, everyone knew I was a writer. So, when we had to write a narrative using the hero's journey outline, it was not a surprise that I got an 100 on it.
While still in 10th grade, I found out that there was a writing contest and I was eager to put my work out into the world. I had so many great pieces of writing but when I found out my competition piece was only suppose to fit on 5 pages I was discouraged. Nevertheless, I persisted, grew inspiration from Hamilton and worked non-stop. I went to my teacher for help, had everyone I knew read my piece, listened to motivational things and I ended up winning 1st place for 10th grade and 1st place in county. That day I learned, that I'm actually good at writing.
In Summer of 2019, one of my poems were published in a magazine. I started writing on wattpad, made a writing Instagram account, started blogging, won honorable mentions and other contest, etc.
I like to believe that I am a writer. I think I am good at fictional writing but, I do not think I am that good at writing anything nonfictional, articles or essays. I know I got your hopes up, but please do not expect anything above average from me unless it is a fun creative writing piece. With peace, love and positivity,
Yours truly,
Syddnii Senpai🖤
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