My Mission

I am a writer. If you're reading this blog, you already know that. I've loved to write for as long as I can remember. It's a passion that stemmed from, I'm positive, a love of reading. I'd stay up late at night, with a flashlight under my covers, reading the latest Amber Brown installment or Mary-Kate & Ashley mystery. Cliche, but true.

In college, I've explored the type of writing I want to pursue. Freshman and sophomore years were devoted to journalism. No. Hell, no. Don't have the personality for it. Junior year has been devoted to fiction. Bingo. That was it, the X factor I'd been looking for. This is what comes naturally. This is what I love to do. This is what I'm meant to do.

Okay. Now what?

My mission, as a writer with aspirations of that elusive New York Times Bestseller list, is to write something that matters, something with substance. Something that people will look back on in ten, twenty, thirty years and say, "That made me look at things a little differently." No matter what we write, all writers want to write something that will have an impact, whether it be big or small. I want to write something relatable, something that will keep young people up at night, turning page after page into the wee hours of the morning. I want to write something meaningful.

Something I can be proud of.

That's my dream. That's my mission.