I always wonder what it takes to be a good and sensible writer. Do you have to get a good penmanship? Do you need to have much exposure to different kinds of situation to have something to write? How about enough courage to speak out everything that you have on your mind? Maybe, you're attitude will matter as well, for you to overcome all the criticisms that will come on your way? Do you need to be open-minded enough to accept feedbacks with regards to your work, whether those would be positive or not? A writer would be just a simple thing to think about for a person but that would take much meaning and responsibilities to be one.

Most people will start learning how to write when they reach the age seven. When their hands are strong enough to hold their pen and control it with any words that they want to write. Most of them started writing their own names, for that would be the first thing that they would know at their young minds. But then as they grow older, they become more matured, and they get more exposures to the real world and get more experiences to share on their writings. But sad thing about it, not all of them will get the courage to be truthful enough to burst out everything that they want to say through these writings.

Since I was a child, I always dream to be a writer, write my own novel, have own book, write articles in magazines, and write news in the newspapers. In writing, you only need to be focus on what you feel; you also need to take consideration on how your readers would feel towards your work.

I got my interest in writing when I was still in primary grades. I became the feature editor in our school organ that time. I started to realize that your works won't be realistic not unless you encountered the exact situation you are discussing on your works and those opinions really came from your heart. Being a writer would also be being honest, being trustworthy and being true to you.

When I reached my high school, I've been our sports editor in school. I started joining competitions in different towns and earned awards because of my works. That was also the time when I started learning to socialize with other people, get more friends and fall in love. That was when I started getting interest writing things about one's experiences. I started sharing my own thoughts, beliefs and opinions about particular topic through my pen and paper. I started to realize that you might need to have a lot of exposures to different situation, so you can have much more things to say. Heartbreaks, friends, relationships, letting go are just few of so many things that got my interest to write.

Now that I grow older, life becomes tougher, much more things to say, but sometimes there are things that are very hard to burst out you and would need enough courage to complete a single paragraph. This is the time when I become more conscious not only on the content of my work but as well as its composition and grammar, for English is not my primary language. "You cannot appreciate everybody" is like everybody's word of their mouth. But I won't stop. There were a lot of things that happened in my life for almost 22 years, with a lot of things that I learned from hundreds my mistakes and I would be more than happy to share these stories to others and somehow have them learned as well from what I've been through.

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