Writing was always hard for me when I first started. I couldn't write a good story if my life depended on it. Why? Because I was trying to write for everybody else, and not myself. If you try and write a story for someone because they want you to, you may find it harder to write altogether.
When I was in year 7 at high-school, writing was not my strong point... like at all... I had never written before and I had no idea how, or why I was even writing in the first place.
Upon entering year 8, we had to write another story. We had a few weeks to complete it and I always replied, "you can read it when it is finished" to my teacher who asked where it was... #TRUTH... I hadn't started. Then a few days before it was due, I had a bit of a bad night (suffering from mental health is a little crazy!) and I wrote a story that gave me 100% mark. Because I wrote for myself, from my heart. Not from everyone else's heart.
Although I no longer have that story on paper or on my computer - the basis of it was about a young girl who confided in horses due to having an abusive father who in the end shot her off her horse (before you ask where the mother was - she died in childbirth). At this point in my life, horses (they still are) were a big part of my life and my dad and I had gotten in a major argument.
So here is the first piece of advice I will give you...
#1
Write for you. Because if you don't write YOUR stories, for YOU... Your stories won't end up half as good as what they could be.
Thanks for reading!
Meli xoxo
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