What being a writer truly means.

A few months ago, I sent in an e-mail to Justine Larbalestier who wrote possibly the coolest book ever - How To Ditch You Fairy(which I have never read.). I wasn't expecting a reply when a few weeks later, she replied. I e-mailed again and I just got her reply recently.

Ever since I started e-mailing her I kept on rating about how much I couldn't find her books, how clueless the people in the bookstores are and how living in the third world country sucks. After I replied, she told me to give her my address so she could send me a copy.

It was by that action that I truly realized what being a writer truly means - getting people to read your work no matter how far away they live, regardless of what their social status is and how they speak. It's being able to get what you want to say out to as many people as possible, and everyone else interested. Being a writer means writing what you want to, looking for people who will read it and who agree with it and treasuring them because they will serve as your inspiration to write more.

I'm excited about the book but what hit me the most was the fact that an author, a complete stranger, offered to send me something she worked so hard on, something she treasures, just so I can read it and possibly be inspired.