Akeldama

I generally find these things to be a bit of a waste, I don't believe that many people are really interested in my deepest thoughts and feelings simply because they stumbled across my page. But for those of you that do care I'll guess I'll put a little blurb or two down.

Where to begin...even in an 'about me' this is the hardest part, the beginning. A large part of my difficulty with starting something is that I'm very over-critical of myself, I won't put anything down unless I feel that it's absolutely amazing (and nothing really is, especially on a first write through). Lately I've been forcing my way through this problem, making myself write regardless of what comes out. I've even been using a character of mine named Richard Millwright, a struggling writer who has the same problem, to fight through my self doubt. Expect quite a bit of Richard here.

Poetry isn't my thing. I'll give it a crack every once in a while, but my poems turn out more as amorphous lumps of soppy emotional dreck than actual, well constructed poems. It would seem that I'm the odd man out on this site in that regard.

Beyond that... I'm a teenager. I try to go beyond the typical "nobody understands me and my troubled adolescent mind" type writing that's so common from writers my age, but everybody needs to vent now and then.

You'll learn more about me from reading my writing and talking with me, so why not just go ahead and do that?

On a side note: unfortunately, being a high school senior, I have become incredibly busy with a vast number of things that I simply have to do or, as I have been told by my counselors, I'm going to be sold off as a pet to a Chinese person. So, while it would be excellent if you would write me an honest review that helps me to improve my writing in any way, rather than simply saying "It was good" (as Creative Writing teachers are wont to do with anything that's written legibly). The problem is, I may not have the time to return the favor in a timely manner, or at all if I simply lose track of everything that's going on in my life. Apologies in advance, but please, don't let that stop you from reviewing my writing. Cheers.