Well, you wanted to be a writer...

Well, let's see how this goes...

Hi, I am Goddess of Cereal 56.  (Never forget the 56!).  I have been on Wattpad now for about 4 years.  I have read a lot on this site, and in the past, I have tried to write several various things.  I can guarantee you have never seen any of them.  Any except the two current ones "The Rising Phoenix" and "Dago Done."  See the truth is for years I have told myself I am not a writer.  I would try to write a story, a novel, anything, and would inevitably hate it and trash it.  I would give up on it and get stuck in a rut, with nothing to go off of.  I told myself I was a reader, maybe a commenter, but never, never, NEVER a writer.

Then something happened.  Nothing major, anyone passing through the channel would never notice or care.  But something changed on my end.  I wrote a story.  A full-length one called The Rising Phoenix.  I am proud of this achievement, it is my first and only real novel despite its brevity.  For the first time, I was confronted with the concept that maybe just maybe I could write.  So I tried.  Again.  I have two stories started, both burning up space on my google drive, each barely a page long.  I sank into a rut, sure that the Rising Phoenix was a fluke. So, I stopped writing.  My friend, @ALLIKA0215 ended up writing instead, inspired by my persistence in my novel.  She has since found a passion for writing short stories inspired by Dungeons and Dragons, and even just tonight has released a new chapter.

So the question became where did I fit?  I have SO MANY STORIES stuck in my head unable to be let out.  Characters like Asia, Steven Lamar, Etta Dumein, Ms. Summer Knight.  They beg me to tell their stories, share the worlds floating in my head.  Real people also tell me to write.  For years my dad would try to convince me to pick up a pen and start.  My friends would smile as I would tell them a story plucked straight from my mind.  And after I wrote "The Rising Phoenix" a complete stranger on Wattpad contacted me via direct messaging begging to know why I don't write more.  What most don't know is that I try, and I keep freezing up.  What made Phoenix different from the rest?  The truth is I don't rightly know.  What I do know is that I keep deleting my writing and bailing on it a page in.  I never share this work with anyone, and it piles up in my google drive.  Something any book about writing tells you not to do.

I am going to set a challenge for myself.  And we're going to ride this out together, you faceless stranger, and I.  I am going to write one short story every day for a week.  If this works, I'll go for week 2.  Then week 3.  And finally, a month of daily writing.  If I don't post you are free to yell at me through the internet.  I am asking you to critique my work, but most importantly, I want this to test my weaknesses.  Everything that is written won't be deleted.  It will be straight from my head to the page.  I am not going to limit myself on what I write.  It may be just a check in about how my day went.  It may be a short story about a D&D character I created.  It may even be me ranting about a character doing something insanely bullheaded who just can't seem to get it in their heads that the guy they are looking for is right in front of them and wants to be with them!  (... definitely not thinking of a specific character  from Rena Freefall's "Kingdom in the Sand")

Let's see where this goes, shall we?  In 3... 2... 1...