I'd been writing for myself since my childhood without having the nerve to show them to anyone. Yes, I was an introvert. But then I realised one day that the common characters around me abounded in stories of their own, like me. I started peeping into their worlds and learn about their hopes, fears, pains, loves, struggles for comparison and didn't know when their stories got intertwined with mine. I realised the responsibility I had in getting their stories heard. Perhaps that was the time my writing journey took off in the true sense. Writing is the only way by which I can live other people's lives as myself and look at myself as an outsider.
To concentrate more on story telling .. to make it more attractive with fewer, simpler words than long descriptions particularly while writing Young Adult fiction
