Everyone Has a Story...

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I read somewhere, and I really wish that I remembered where so that I could share it with you guys, but I remembered reading that --




"we know enough when we are 15 to write a series of novels"


Probably not word for word but it got me thinking about when people start writing and why people start to write.



I love writing, if it wasn't for writing then I don't know what I'd be doing right now...in fact I can't think of a life without writing because it's actually a huge part of my life, if not everything in my life.



I have some questions that I'm going to answer and I want you guys to answer with me! Then we know that little bit extra about each other....and we get that little bit closer.




When did you start writing?

I'd say I was about 7-ish, I don't know, I was really young and I used to get really angry because I wanted to write about things I didn't even understand then. It wasn't the typical nonsensical stuff...I remember quite fondly how I wanted to write about people, how I wanted to use them and make them do things.




Why did you start writing?
Even for a question I asked myself, I'm going to say that is a tough one. I don't know why I started, but I can tell you why I continued to write...because writing is a form of expressionism and I love to express myself, some people like to do it through music, some people through dance, and then there are some people who don't do anything at all and it's a shame because when I start to write I wake something up inside me and then I'm no longer me, Joseph Eastwood...I'm hundreds of different people who all need me, and I need them.



I can assure you that I am only two thirds weird, the rest of me is writer.




How old where you when you wrote your first novel?
I wouldn't say that it was a novel because a novel sounds so grand and prestigious etc. and the first real project I worked on was something called Energies and it worked its way over 50,000 words. I was 15 years old and I was going through a rough patch and I was in that teenage angst/depression stage. I haven't looked at it since, I cry every time I think about it....so yes, my eyes are starting to glass over with tears.



I think we'll stop there then.



I hope you answer some of these and tell me a little bit about my readers.



-Joseph




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