I have been writing since I was 12 years old, at least three times a week enjoying the escape that came from developing my own world with someone else. I started out on a Harry Potter themed website and when it was announced it was going to be shut down, I found myself going through withdraws. The idea that I might never write again was a scary thought to me. That’s when I ran into the Role player’s Guild in a desperate attempt to find something to fill the void that I knew was going to be missed. Upon my arrival to this site I… well I didn’t know what to expect. I had only done one style of role play and there were so many here I was a bit overwhelmed. I walked into a party where I knew no one and I felt like that odd ball kid in the corner with their soda desperately looking for someone to talk to. I knew this wasn’t me and I took a chance, a single chance and if it didn’t work I was going to leave. I posted on the 1x1 section of the older version of this site with a small detail about myself and I had a very welcoming response with people wanting to write with me. In fact the overwhelming feeling left me crying with joy at my computer desk all those years ago. These were tears of joy. Joy because people wanted to talk to me even though they didn’t know me; people were interested in my ideas and/or my characters who were and were not Harry Potter related and, most importantly for me, I didn’t lose my beloved hobby of writing. This writing hobby isn’t for everyone but it is for me. It is a way to express my creativity, develop my writing skills and continues on my journey of, well, acting because I love designing and developing personalities/people which resembles acting. I am a highly social person in real life, I have friends and family and do activities with them but… something about this, the freedom to express one’s self creatively in writing is something I treasure more than I can put into words. I am so, SO grateful to be able to continue to do my hobby of writing thanks to the functioning of this website. From the bottom of my heart, I say “Thank You.”