Marximilien

I am Asian. I speak Visayan or Bisaya (specifically, Cebuano); Tagalog; Filipino---our national language---which is a combination of all existing native languages in our country but almost the same with Tagalog; and lastly, English.

As a child I never had any interest in this field. Yet when I was in High School, I got a lot better in speaking and in writing... with the help of some legendary writers whose works I've read and inspired me like the pieces Irving Washington, Edgar Allan Poe, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning and Nathaniel Hawthorne did. Also, celebrities and a few friends I've heard uttering striking lines influenced me in becoming somewhat like them until I have loved it already. I used to hate Math even though I'm not really bad with it; and loved English which I thought was the easiest. I excelled in English unexpectedly and became the most endorsed by teachers when it comes to essay-writing. I won many contests and fortunately came to Nationals once.

I am more expressive in writing because I can think of ideas more at ease. My mind has a lot of ideas that I can't even write them. LOL. Imaginative my mind may be but hard work and determination is less with my obsessive-compulsive personality. All the time I procrastinate. I seldom discard what I already had written because I can't avoid comparing my work with others'. And I always think I can never do it. But I am exerting my greatest effort in making a piece that would then satisfy me.