Let Me Tell You: What Kind of Writer I Am

There are times in life when I feel that I make connections. That I figure out where to go from the mistakes I have made. And sometimes I fix them. I realized more than ever today that I'm a writer and exactly what kind of writer I am. Two years ago I thought I was the kind of writer that would write anything. But when I started writing for Pounce last year and then for the newspaper this past summer, something dawned on me. I wasn't that kind of writer. When your a jounalist, they tell you to be simple but I like to be complex. They tell you be get the the point but I like to take the long way around things. They tell you to get the facts but I want to express myself. Everyone said you can do it, stay at it and believe me I would have if I hadn't realized something. I don't want to change the writer that I am. I like to be creative. I don't like to write about what someone else wants. I want to tell the story that's on my mind. I want to think inside the box and outside the box. And I want to start sentences with and. I want to create suspence, humor, and action. I want to paint words onto the page that will drive the reader's imagination crazy. I'm going to write novels that astound the reader. That baffle the reader. And please the reader. I will write stories for Pounce but I will never be a journalist. Not because I can't because I'm a Morgan and I can do whatever I want.
But...
Because I'm just not that kind of writer.