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Why? Why Not!

Expressing my opinions through words has always been a struggle for me. I started to write when I was 7 and at that time I wrote about anything that came to my mind. It was easy for me to just sit down and start writing. It became even easier when I learned how to type really really fast in the 6th grade because my mind was always much faster and my hand could never keep up. Some people call them journal entries - I simply call it freedom. Yes that is probably a little corny and maybe even a tad dramatic but writing is something that allows me to write whatever I feel the need to express in an easy and fun way. I can think before I publish something and make it sound much better, more articulate than if I was on my feet in front of someone. 

Writing for myself is one thing but writing for the masses (aka my friends and family) is another.  I have always wanted to find a way to show people my writiting, whether it be a review of a movie I have seen, a book I have read, a story I heard on the news, or a sporting event that I went to or watched.  A friend put together a blog recently and I asked myself "why not?" What is the worst that could happen? So here is my first ever blog. Basically anything that I want to write about will come up in these pages but mainly it will be reviews, opinonated reviews of course, about anything.

In high school all I wanted to be was a writer but I never wrote for the school paper. I was always too afraid of never being good enough. I wanted to write feature stories about anything but once I got into college I started taking some film courses and realized that I could take one of my passions (movies) and write about those.  I took a journalism course and really liked what I was doing but again, I never took it any further because I didn't think I was good enough. So now at 25 years old I am taking matters into my own hands and doing what I should have done years ago - write for fun, write what I love, and keep on writing. The only way I will learn to become a better writer is to keep writing no matter what people tell me so here goes nothing!

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