With all of that said I've created this blog as a way to share some of my writing and express my unwanted opinions. From poetry, short fiction, and book reviews you will find it all here!
Since I was a little girl I've been in love with books. From Tom Sawyer to the Bronte sisters I read everything I could get my hands on. I guess that's where my love of writing began. It started with poetry. I would read Poe, Whitman, and Woolfe anything my grandfather had in his library. I realized that these poets were telling the secrets of their souls in these books and that intrigued me. I was never too good at talking about how I felt and then one day I picked up a pen. I wrote my first poem and I knew that this was my escape. Writing gave me a way to express everything from my feelings toward my parents, my love for nature, and the secrets of my soul. At first I wrote poetry for therapeutic means only and then I read The Face by Dean Koontz (which I highly suggest). It was one of the first modern fictions I had read. I read the book in one night at the age of thirteen and my life was changed forever. The way he made you jump at the suspense, the detail in the descriptions of people, and the emotions that I physically felt for the characters. That book is the reason I decided to start writing. I thought if I could one day make someone feel the way I felt reading that book then my life would be complete.
I started writing short fiction and very soon after I realized that I had a true passion for the thriller genre. I read once that to be a good writer you have to read a lot and so I did. I grabbed every Koontz novel I could find and when I ran out of those I started reading John Sanford, Tami Hoag, Stephen King etc. I read anything and everything thriller related. I fell in love with the genre and soon I fell in love with writing. I would write short stories for my family and friends and to much of my surprise they thought I was good!
I started my first novel when I was fifteen and soon I'd written twelve chapters of a real live book! I couldn't believe it, I had nearly finished an entire book. And then I did the unthinkable..... I threw it away. My book, my life, my twelve chapters I tossed it. I'd get into why but that would take far too long and would make me look like a schmuck. The point is I made a terrible mistake and I was so offended by my own stupidity that I stopped writing for nearly three years. I didn't pick a pen up again until I was in college and even then it didn't feel the same. I had lost a part of myself. My first novel and I'd just thrown it away. After a lot of writer's block and a lot of shame I finally realized that the only way to forgive myself was start it over. And so that's where I'm at I'm writing my original first novel again. In the meantime I'm also working on two other novels, several short stories, and a shit ton of poetry so I'll have plenty for you to read! What can I say...I have a crazy imagination!
I hope you enjoy my blog and I also encourage you to check out my book of poetry on amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SNV015M
-Maggie V
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