For years, I’ve been writing my every thought and every movement in a journal. When I started to write in a journal, I was very young and just enjoyed writing. It didn’t matter if I was just practicing my signature or writing down my dream wedding. I was always writing when I was younger, and I enjoyed it so much as I carried around a cute little notebook and pen with the puff ball on the end.

I started to write religiously in middle school. I would get a composition notebook, and it would be filled out with my thoughts and notes about the day in no time. I went through roughly six composition notebooks a year. I wrote every day, and it didn’t matter if I wrote first thing in the morning or right before I went to bed. Writing about my day made me happy and helped me deal with things in my life.

When I was in high school, I wanted to be on The Today Show or have my own show. In college, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to be an accountant, psychologist, or writer. So I took classes in everything, and then I chose to pursue business administration. I was rocking’ and rollin’ until I got to economics. I could never get into that class, but I feared that there would be so many more economic classes in my future that I changed my major.

What did I change it to? Journalism, duh. I was excited about the change, but I knew I had knocked myself back a semester. But I was actually a semester ahead so I was still on track to graduate on time! When I signed up for my journalism classes I was nervous, but then I got a great professor and I was rocking’ and rollin’ in journalism. I have made an A in each of my journalism classes, and I am blessed for that. I have applied for internships out of state and been rejected. I have submitted pieces to magazines and been accepted. Rejection and acceptance are all part of being a writer. Sometimes people will love my piece, other times they will hate it and tear it to shreds. It is part of the package, and you need tough skin for it and remember that it is all constructive criticism.

But of course, my ultimate goal is to write an exquisite YA novel and have it get turned into a movie, and then retire to the beach by age 25 with my family and friends by my side. A girl can dream, can’t she?

I know that I may never become "rich" from writing, but I believe that if I am truly happy with my career path and enjoy my job that I won't focus on trying to make millions. If all else fails, I can become an accountant that writes for a magazine on the side.