I’ve been a writer since I was 12. I just didn’t know it until I was much older. For a long time, writing was just something I did and enjoyed. When I was young, I had a wild imagination. I couldn’t wait for bedtime, that was the time I’d spend alone in my room with hundreds of stories and ideas running around in my head. 

It wasn’t until 7th grade that I started noticing that I could write better than most of my peers and that I put unusual passion and dedication into my essays. Still, in high school, I was far from the best essay writer in our stream. So I used to borrow the ‘A’ students’ essay books and read through them, trying to find out how I could improve my own writing. I thought it was all about competition, I wanted to score better grades. Funnily, it was only in the writing exercises that I felt a deep desire to excel.