Jonnie Lynn

As a twenty-something year old writer, my biggest accomplishment in writing has been finishing one (terrible) Harry Potter fan fiction, and starting - then never completing - one hundred more. That is not an overestimation. 

I was introduced to the world of books very young. "Go, Dog, Go!" by P.D. Eastman is the first book I ever remember reading on my own at the age of four. Who would have thought that just a mere five years later I would already be immersed in the world of Harry Potter? To be fair, I owned the book and read the first three chapters and then put it down for the next three years until the movie came out. It was then that my interest was truly peaked, and I realized that books are always better than the movie. So look out world, her comes the amazing works of a twelve year old who LOVES TO WRITE ABOUT HARRY POTTER LIKE THIS!

I'm not proud, but it was a start into a world that I grew to love even more. For years I wrote fan fiction. I would get so close to finishing, and then something inside made me give up. I think it had something to do with the fact I had started writing my own original work in a notebook (I was clearly an INTELLIGENT thirteen year old) and someone stole it from me. Either that or I forgot it in the school gymnasium and the janitor tossed it in the trash. Let's be honest. I wrote it when I was thirteen. That's probably where it belonged. But as years went by, it was just hard to complete something that wasn't my own.

But I always missed writing. I stopped around 2015 and hadn't looked back in fear that I'd never start my original works again. But truth is, I didn't start them even without writing fan fiction. And I figure not writing at all is worse than not having my own original content. So I want to try again. I want to dabble into the other world. Hopefully that'll spark some inspiration, but even if it doesn't, at least I'm doing what I love most.