: About Me

A hopeless romantic who lives in her mind most of the time. A dreamer. A lover. A fighter. A friend.

A believer in the fact that sometimes we have to write letters and not just emails to friends.Letter writing is a dying art and I have every intention to keep it alive.
Sending cards (not ecards) on birthdays of people that mean something to me. A birthday present that is made is always better than something that is bought.

I believe that i should be making a difference in the world, even if it is small differences, even if it is just helping one person. I believe in making a difference one person at a time, and that is why I am going to be a teacher.

I believe that in order to be a great writer, one has to write from the heart; one has to write about things he/she believes in; and one has to write basically, to save himself/herself.

My passion is ...

writing

I know too much about ...

failure

My parents always told me ...

that getting married was the best thing for a woman. (they are wrong)

My childhood ambition ...

forensic pathologist.

My favorite memory ...

swinging life away at 12 midnight, late night conversations that made me smile

Why I write ...

because i have to.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

the things they carried by tim o'brien /

My first job ...

being a human being

My best moment ...

falling in love

My inspiration ...

Jodi Picoult, Nicholas Sparks, Haruki Murakami, everyone i love.

Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Does the best poetry come from the heart or from the mind?

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Without even hesitating, my answer would be heart. I guess this is mainly because I am a highly emotional person. Be it poetry or any type of writing that I do, I always put a little bit of my heart, soul and emotions into it. Of course my mind does help, in coming up with the words, seeing if the poem flows, seeing if I did not make any spelling or grammatical errors, but that's the extent of it. The mind dictates the technical parts of the poem. The rawness of a poem, which is the bulk of the poem, definitely without a doubt comes from the heart. I used to tell myself that I should be wr...

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