Why do I write?

      I used to hate reading. I hated reading so much that I would guess when I needed to take a test that required reading and answering questions. But that changed with one of my middle school teachers. She required us to read books in a group and write and answer questions about those books. When she told us that on the first day of class my heart started to race. 
      At first I didn't believe that I would actually enjoy reading. But I fell in love with reading. That was the first time I went to the library to pick out books to read for fun. As I read more and more my mind started to changes scenes in the books. I did that constantly and changed the book into something completely different inside my head. I eventually got through the book as it was but I still stopped peripherally to think about what I would do with the story and how I would play out the scene. 
      However, even though I started doing that to books I didn't start writing stories until I reached high school. I started with poems in middle schooled and moved up to stories when I reached my freshman year. That's when my world changed. 
      I wrote my first story. It was very bad and now lost to a broken down old computer. But when I started writing that first story my heart welled with so much excitement and happiness. That's when I realized I wanted to write books. 
      I continued to write during high school and got better and better. I started and finished the first book that I truly loved during high school. And I still love this book. It remains one of my favorites that I have written and I can't wait to share it with the world.
      My writing career is just starting and I still have a long way to go. It may be a little while before my favorite book reaches the shelves but I know that it will. Getting published will probably be a very long and hard process but I will never get up. Writing is what makes me who I am. That is why I write and why I will never give up.