courage, dear heart // an introduction of sorts

"Courage, dear heart."
- C. S. Lewis

I was born at a very young age (ha.), and it was around that same time that I discovered that I had a wild imagination. I remember running around our tree-infested-but-not-quite-wooded backyard with my younger siblings when we were elementary-aged pretending to be knights and princesses and dragons and wizards. When the rainy summers hit and we were confined to the walls of our house, I spent the evenings flipping through as many books as I could and reenacting scenes for my family. 

One day, while completing an English assignment (I was home schooled so my mother was my teacher), I realized that somebody had to imagine the books I had been reading. I grabbed as many sheets of paper as I could and began penning down the very short story that would be titled Pat and Leather, a heartfelt and moving story that would be sure to leave the family in blissful tears about a pair of shoes and their adventure in the school locker room (that story has since been shelved until further notice).

After that, you couldn't pry the pen and paper from me until my eyelids were too tired to stay open to see the pages. And since then I've wanted to do nothing else with my life besides write and be a writer. I'm a deep thinker by nature and a deep feeler by heart, so crafting words into intricate images is something I've always felt passionate about. Feeling, and not just seeing, is what I want my readers to experience and strive to convey that in my books and throughout this blog.

I'm now an 18-year-old home school graduate and college student, but that hasn't changed the way I view books. I still dream about the day I will hold my book in my hands and crack open the spine. I still imagine new stories and concepts on a daily basis, penning them down on loose pieces of paper or my favorite Moleskine notebook. It's been quite the adventure, coming from a story about two shoes to telling stories that go deeper than the average third graders mind, but it's been beautiful.

I hope you will join me.