Readers, you and I

Writing loses its significance without readers. Sometimes it's as close as friends and family, other times it's as broad as the whole world and then there are the very intimate instances when writing and reading is a solitary art.

Regardless of how it happens, until the written word is read there's something vital lacking in its existence.

I am a reader, I've always been a reader and I will forever be a reader. What I'm trying to say is, we're in this together, you and I.

We have been since my days in first grade when I dragged my copy of the Twelve Dancing Princesses to school and asked my teacher if I could read it to the class. Back in the days when I walked into walls and doors and people because my nose was buried in Anne of Green Gables. I fondly remember sitting in the dimly lit nook of my cousin's closet devouring her long forgotten copy of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban that I had found behind a pile of toys. Even today there's nothing like snuggling under a blanket on a rainy day with a book or tucking my head under the covers and reading by the warm glow of my e-reader.

Stories are my life and the natural course of things lead me to having worlds and minds that sprung, born like magic from my imagination. I am, like Jo from Little Women, forever scribbling. Carrying papers, binders, books, journals, napkins and whatever else I could get a pen on.

So I’m still (in a slightly more organized manner) scribbling, piecing together worlds one sentence at a time. Breathing life into friends who have been with me, journeying life’s path alongside me, in hopes that I can share these incredible characters who I owe so much of my personal happiness to, with you.

This first, short letter is to christen this blog in dedication to readers. Not just people who happen to read this, but to everyone who has ever read and will ever read. Writers need readers, readers need writers; it’s the second greatest cycle in the circle of life. I’m just amazed and grateful that I’m allowed the privilege to be both.

I cannot promise, with certainty, what you’ll always find here, but my sincere hope is that you'll find things you can relate to. The sort of things that will question the way you view ordinary life, things that will inspire you, things that will (hopefully) not bore you and above all, things you can enjoy.