Role Model
I’ve always had a vivid imagination and so many stories to tell. However, I’d never felt the need to write them down, at least not until I met Christopher Paolini.
For my fourteenth birthday, my parents agreed to drive almost four hours so I could meet my favorite author. I got all five of my books signed by him and we even exchanged the elvish greeting.
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I was very excited to learn that he’d been homeschooled just like me. He also wrote Eragon when he was only fifteen.
I guess until that point, I’d always thought only old people wrote books. It had never even crossed my mind that, “Wow teenagers can write books too? That’s cool, I want to try.”
It’s been a few years in the making. My perfectionism hates me, but I managed to write almost a whole page yesterday.
I can’t even wonder if people will like it yet, my only hope is that they do. And if they don’t, I hope I’ll still feel like I did something.
