People blog for different reasons. Whether it be to expand your writing abilities, become famous, get information out, or for any other reason, you like people to read what you are writing. And those readers are called traffic. But the good traffic, not I-have-to-be-at-work-in-ten-minutes traffic. This morning, as I was helping my mother get ready for my father’s birthday celebration, I was chatting this subject up with her. My mum is more than aware of the fact I blog. She a

You know those women who are trying to pick up younger men by saying “Oh, I’m 25. I just look mature for my age.” Truth is, their children are 25. Yep, those are the age liars. I’m 16. And yeah, there are always the doubters. I have lots of people who read my blog, dissect each piece and then comment “Oh, how old are you. What college did you go to?” And I just want to say “I’m sorry, but did you actually read? I don’t even have a high school diploma!” I mean, teenage enthusi

Today I attended the Portland State University hosted Oregon Writing Festival. I like to call it the Nerd Writers Convention. But that’s just me. The basics of the Nerd Writers Convention is to meet other school-aged writers from all around. I was paired with 8 other teenage writers like myself. We do workshops together, met the Oregon Poet Laureate. At the end, you get together with your group and do a writing critique. You read your writing out to the group and they give th