awww thank you so much! you're too sweet. the first instance where i took pen to paper and wrote something creative (and not in school) was when i was about 8 or 9 years old. from there i slowly started letting myself be more and more creative and it was a matter of understanding just how words flow before i knew what they even meant. writing is an art and your vernacular is your medium, so you have to know what goes where according to your style or your writing preference. but it took a long time to figure that out for sure!

as for writers block, the only thing i can really offer is that you be gentle with yourself. i feel, and this may not be universal so take it with a grain of salt, that writers block just stems from resistance of what is. what i mean by that is that you sit there and you're like "god i just wanna write, i wanna write something good, i want it to be a masterpiece and i want it to be as good as im imagining it to be" but unfortunately, that's not realistic. our minds tend to run faster than what we're physically capable of doing so a scene will fly by in our heads and then we're like okay. how the hell do i write that? and then we get stuck in this loop of "i wanna write but im not good enough," but those restrictions were set by you. no one's telling you not to write poorly, because you can. how do we even determine what is poor writing? how do we decide what good writing is if there is no "bad" writing to contrast it?

take it slow. one at a time. you want to write, so the first step is to meet that craving and honor that desire. so get in front of your laptop or piece of paper and just write. it doesn't have to be good. try a power writing exercise -- set a timer for 30 seconds, give yourself a one-word prompt, and write as MUCH as you can, as quickly as you can.

when you get over the mental block that tells you that writing has to be good the first time you do it, you allow so much more creativity to flow through you. it's like magic, really haha. BUT like i said, be gentle with yourself. it's okay if it sucks at first. it's okay if you could only muster 20 words during that power writing exercise. everyone starts somewhere.

i like to say that whatever we create is an extension of ourselves. we can only meet others -- and we can only reach to create -- as far as we've met ourselves. so let the journey of writing also serve as a journey to self discovery. maybe a perspective like that is daunting, or maybe it's comforting!

but yeah haha best of luck to you and your writing journey! thank you so much for your love and support, i really appreciate you. <3