“Somewhere, sometime,
and on some dimension of existence, anything that is
fantasy to us, is real to someone else.”
~ Matthew Dickerson
There are two kinds of writers
in the world – those who write to live and those
who live to write. That is a phrase I first heard from
my mother when I first began writing as a high school
freshman. I was proud that my first story was over thirty
pages of typed text. Since then writing has been a passion,
something that no matter what happened in my life, it
was always there deep within me, flowing through my
fingertips as quickly as it leapt to my creative mind.
I was the only one in my peer group that knew exactly
what they wanted to major in, I went to DePauw University
because it offered English Writing as a major, where
most other colleges only offered a more generalized
English degree. Writing has been a guide and a close
friend. I am as deeply passionate about every character,
both hero and villain alike, as I felt when being read
my first book as a child. That is where my characters
are given life, for I pour my heart and soul into every
thought, every expression, and every inflection of emotion
that I wished to convey.
One of my college professors, after reading a play I
wrote, pulled me aside and said, “This college
is not good enough for you. Your creativity deserves
so much more…” He was the one who dubbed
many of my one-liners in the comedic act as “Dickerson-isms,”
Where other students turned in a short twenty-page story
for their final project for their English Writing degree,
I was only allowed to turn in my first three chapters
of an entire novel I had written for the project.
Years after college, I find myself returning to that
saying I was given when I first began. I am a writer
who lives to write, who is given strength from the passion
that comes to me when I begin a new novel, read through
a completed piece, or learn of new ways to perfect my
skill as an author. Many have said that to become a
published author, to fulfill the dream so many novelists
hope to transform into a reality, is a near impossible
task. In response, I am reminded of another quote…
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