My Favorite Things About Being A Writer

  While there's good and bad in everything you do, and I've already talked about some of the things that suck about writing... (That's just amateur writing, not writing for a living!) It's time for everything I love about writing!
  Some of these are kind of universal writing things, some of these are things that I've never heard before, but they're all things that motivate me to keep writing!

1. Being Someone Else

  True, most of my characters are treated extremely horribly, many have some sort of mental disorder (I mean, Jamie has PTSD and Bree has Trauma Induced Amnesia, those take quite a bit of trauma to get...) So it's not like a want to be them, have their life, or anything along those lines. But as someone interested in psychology, I LOVE making complex characters, backstories, and being able to delve into someone else's mind and understand everything perfectly. And I generally do this to the point that I feel like I am that character, and sometimes even experience physical symptoms of what's going on for them (Only when I'm writing them; I don't randomly get Jamie's flashbacks in the middle of my day or anything! I'm not that crazy!) Which honestly, even though feeling what I make them go through can suck, I think it's the most amazingly awesome thing about writing. 

2. Venting

  I don't always do this when I write, but if I happen to be furious at the same time that my characters are... Well they're gonna be spitting venomous hatred at whoever messed with them! Sure, I write some pretty good emotions when I don't really feel it... But there is nothing better than when a character and I agree. 

  That's not even to mention that by the time I'm done, I can easily detach from the emotion. The anger is all Bree's now! Not mine anymore, and it won't bug me again. 

3. Conveying All Of The Things

   I also love to convey messages, share my thoughts with people and all... And so I use my books to do exactly that! Whenever I have some thought that I want to share with the world, I see if it'll fit into any of my current projects smoothly, and if not I write it down and promptly lose the piece of paper!
  But yeah, that's why John Green is one of my favorite authors. I love how each of his books has such a deep, "WOW" kind of message. That right there is my aspiration.

4. That Heart Attack

  Oh, you know when you give someone your completed work that you put a lot of time and heart and life into? Yeah, that heart attack. When you're so scared and excited and just can't wait... I love that feeling. Most people seem to hate it... Like, have anxiety just from that, but I guess I'm one of the few people who thinks that's the most exciting and alive feeling ever.
  Either I experience that differently than others, or I'm sadistic towards myself (There's probably a real word for that, but I can't find it, so you just have to be smart enough to get the idea!)

5. Every. Single. Song. 

  Every single song I listen to reminds me of either a book or a character. And that's awesome. No more needs to be said about this.
  Except I love it. I love relating everything to my characters.     

6. The Danger! *Gasps* 

  Have you seen the newest news thing?! Oh my gosh, somebody was killed by writing! They thought it was just a minor injury, but within 48 hours they were dead!! I mean, writing is so dangerous! Why would anyone want to do that?! 

  Nah, just kidding. Writing is one of the best activities ever that really can't hurt you in any way... Never mind kill you. I've never gotten hurt from writing, and I haven't heard anyone who has! 

  As long as you don't suck and are trying to make a living writing garbage, you kind of really can't fail or get hurt here. It's so awesome!! 

7. Crazy

  Being crazy, that's the best. Not literally crazy, because crazy people aren't allowed to be a psychiatrist and that's what I want to do. But seriously, you can do whatever you want in your book world! And you're even allowed to be unusual in the real world; as in you can stutter and bounce around because you figured out a plot-point, or watch people in the name of research, or zone out randomly, or be shut away from the world for days because you're working on a masterpiece! That's all kind of expected from authors or anyone creative really, so yeah!!

  Plus I can be a murderer in my book. And even though writing someone into my book just to kill them is too much work... That's what short stories and flash-fiction are for!!