I feel in love with writing by reading poetry. I thought it was so cool how you could express your self, describe an emotion, create a beautiful scene and eventually tell a story through poetry.
It was't until I tried to get my poetry published that I pushed myself to write beyond that. I learned since I wasn't a well known poet that my poetry was going to be hard to market and promote. Taking that all in and not feeling defeated, I pushed myself as a writer and began to expand on a short story that I had written. That short story turned out to be my f more...