Being a writer Being a writer, and even more being a teenage writer, is not something you can do from one day to another. It's like doing sport. Or playing an instrument. No one can do a back flip the first day they do gymnastics. No one can put the golf ball in the hole the first time they play golf (unless they are damn lucky). No one can play Beethoven's "Moonlight" the first time they play piano. And no one can write something amazing the first time they hold the pen. Nope. It doesn't work that way. I know it because I've been through it. I've discovered the joys and desperation of writing. I've been in the place of the astonished reader who doesn't understand how the hell the writer wrote that. I've tried to write and ended up with pages of shitty writing. I've been tempted to let it go and dedicate myself to something easier. Just reading, maybe. But I can't keep that decision for a long time. While I'm reading, words come silently into my mind, tip-toeing, and start forming ideas, unnoticed... And by the time I notice that, I already have a story in my mind, a new character, something that call me, and calls me... And I can't help but write. That's a writer. Someone who writes. Always writes. Not an amateur, but someone who lives of stories. My characters and my stories are part of my life. I can't let them go and I won't either. And I don't give a damn about what people may think or say. I'm a writer, and I'm proud of that. Period.