I knew when I was in fourth grade that my biggest dream was to become an author. I wanted to write fantastical adventures of worlds I created and fall in love and befriend my own characters and cry when they cried and laugh when they laughed. I wanted to create worlds other people could live in, too, when they read my books.
    My first real book was about a video game that I loved and I created my own character that lived in the game and created her friends and gave the original characters more personality. That was the first time I was engulfed in my own writing.
    J.K. Rowling is a huge inspiration to me. Her writing and attention to detail is phenomenal and I can only hope to create a world that is so complex and imaginative and original as her world of Harry Potter. 
    If I could do one thing besides write, I would travel; although I plan to do a lot of both. I feel like the more you travel and learn about the world, the more you can create in another one. When you write you can't simply be an author; you have to be a doctor with a plot to create the ultimate human, a child with a bad temper, a vampire who write poetry, a woman in the 1800s who learns to travel in time, a nerdy boy who's too scared to tell a girl he likes her, a magician with a passion for cooking.