Self-Taught Writer

For those aren't just aspiring writers, but writers that have had very little experience.

For me, I've been writing for the past 8 years, and have only had 2 Creative Writing classes. Those two classes have definitely helped me, but I seem to have learned more by re-reading and studying my favorite authors' writing styles and themes. That method has improved my vocabulary, my sense in literary elements, my style, etc.....Just by re-reading their books and actually "reading between the lines."
_{Although, my grammar needs a bit more work...}

I write both contemporary fiction and a tad bit of poetry. Even my mom's a poet.
I guess you could say that creative-writing is in our blood. She's the poet, while I'm the story-writer.

Unfortunately, I can't write fanfiction if my life depended on it. I have a hard time writing other people's stories or characters.
I think it's because those stories and characters do not belong to me...They're not my babies. They're someone else's babies and I feel uncomfortable messing with them. It feels like I'm kidnapping their characters for my own literary pleasure and that doesn't feel right.


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