What are you saying about yourself in your writing?

If I've learned anything in my seventeen years it is that writing is therapeutic. God only knows what I would have done if I hadn't been able to churn out these feelings somewhere, created all new worlds to pour my heart out into, fashioned characters who are so real to me that they're practically my family. Gone crazy probably. Taking an autobiographical reading of some stories can reveal a lot about an author, take Sylvia Plath for example. Yeah, she did end up committing suicide but her poetry really spoke volumes about her - her past, her present, her relationships, her stuggles.

I think if my writing says anything about me it was that I have seriously weird views on families. Honestly, every family I create has some screwed up dynamic. There's no such thing to me as a perfect family, but then I'm a cynic when it comes to things like that. I feel, though, that nothing builds a persons' character more than what they are subjected to at a young age, which I incorprate in everything I write.

So what do you think you're trying to say through your writing? It could be anything. It could be your love of dark chocolate. Or your obsession with bad-boys (guilty as charged). Tell me though, yeah? I want to know I'm not crazy in this whole idea, haha.

-Laura
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