I think the best and worst part of being a writer, and in turn being an avid reader and lover of literature, is the ability to fall in love with characters.  The ability to take someone fictional and feel him/her as if he/she were a real person in your life, that you’ve met and had conversations with.  You get inside a characters head, when you’re ( Read more... )

I love when I go through all my unfinished fics looking for something, and finding something else entirely that I actually kind of love and need to finish writing. I have like 1200 words of girl!Sam/Dean that actually progresses nicely and WORKS - and what do I do? Stop when they're about to have sex? WHAT WAS I SMOKING? WAS I DRUNK? Now, ( Read more... )

This is an assignment from my non-fiction class. We were supposed to read a piece about how to become a writer, and in response we had to write our own reflection on how to become something. I thought I was going to write about how to become "recovered" -- apparently my story had other ideas. It is about recovery, but mostly about how I can't tell ( Read more... )

I came to a realization: I used to be a writer. I'm not anymore. The urge is there, maybe even the need, but there is nothing left anymore and I'm done trying to make sense of that. So I just...quit.

i think i fell in love with her, once ( Read more... )