How is it that I became a writer?

From what I can recall there were multiple avenues and intersections that led to the same roundabout of creative nuance; and contrary to popular belief, there was no metamorphosis. I didn’t form a chrysalis while in a garret and emerge a writer.

Firstly, I wanted a conversation when no one would listen. So when I was seven I wrote some bodies that would. At first they were confined to pictures forged by Berol pens and then in ink dried words on paper. However these would one day decay so they were shifted into the rhythmic strumming of the tips of my fingers against numerous plastic keyboards. But these somebodies, these listeners, didn’t listen. They spoke the words I had assigned for them. They were a looking glass.

What writing is: Telepathy, of course.

-- Stephen King

In his memoir, On Writing, King says that writing is a form of telepathy – a form of conversation. He soon elaborates that not only is writing telepathy, but also a form of time travel. Now in my case, I have this underlying fear of being forgotten; a fear so potent that it has crippled me. So I combat this by writing my legacy and I won’t stop until those somebodies live in the minds of my readers as well as the documents before me. I won't stop until that looking glass is warped into something other than a mirror, and that young person with a pen has something to converse with.

I’ll sign off with a trailer for one of my favourite films, The Words. A film that as writers I’m sure we can all connect with – you know – besides the plagiarism part.