“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing” Benjamin Franklin

I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t writing.
I did my first “screenplay” at the age of five with crayons and forced my whole family to watch the Christmas play I wrote, produced an ven acted in too! Later in my teens, I started writing fan fiction for my favourite shows on television, way before the internet, fan fiction as such and even personal computers were invented. I loved the weekly challenges for writing in school and of course, I was a book junkie too.
Writing for me has been sporadic at best and I mostly consider myself a closet writer. I am in the closet, out of the closet, back in and now finally out again, publishing on the internet as much and as often as humanly possible 😉
I am also a poet, and did not know it: True in many ways, as I write from anything and everything. My inspiration can be a phrase I heard on the lift ride or something from the morning radio. Mainly, these days, I get inspired from the pictures I take.
For me, personally, writing is an creative outlet for the mundane working day. If I do not write, I am be a very, very, very cranky person ;P
My motto is: A poem a day, keeps the mental doctor away!
The second motto is: Write more, complain less!

Writing is a good way to express our thoughts, to get everything that we feel or think outside, beause if there are no viable outlets, then, we’d all get, very, ill.
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Hear hear!
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I feel the same way now about photography which I came to very late in my life.
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Thank you for liking, Gun, it has been a while. Writing is a gift we should never take for granted or waste.
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Indeed🖖
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Writing has always been an escape for me as well. I wasn’t quite a young as you were, but I wrote my first stage play at around nine or ten. It played for two shows at my grammar school, then we closed it down and struck the sets.
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a poem a day keeps the shrink away in my opinion at least it works for me.
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