Someone recently asked me what got me into writing, and it made me stop and really think. The answer has always felt obvious to me, but how do you actually say it?

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I’ve always been a writer, the girl with too many journals to count. In high school, I’d even get in trouble for turning my planner into a diary. I’d pass notes to my friends written like mini chapters. One day, my best friend looked at me and said, “You need to write a book. Your life is wild.”

That dream stuck with me.