Samantha Sanders

I can remember being seven years old and writing a story about a young girl in a red cape going into the woods and being attacked by a wolf and thinking I was the most creative person alive.
I have always loved reading, its an extraordinary escape from the world and being a high school senior right now, I have been taking frequent escapes. I think I began writing in order to control what happened during my 'escapes' because I become truly engrossed into whatever I am reading. I've been known to snap at people after reading a dramatic story.
When I write I am able to pour these emotions into the keyboard or pen, leaving me a much more enjoyable person to be around... or not, depending on what I am writing.
The melodramatic events of my life have affected what I write, whether it be my parents divorce or my zit on my forehead conveniently erupting on opening night of one my schools plays or musicals. Come on, I'm seventeen years old, a zit *is* cause for drama!
I am currently on my schools newspaper staff, which has been a new and enjoyable experience. Writing about something that has actually happened has been bizarre.