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If my professors and friends can be believed, I’m a very good writer who has a good chance of being published at some point. I’m inclined to believe them because the friends I show my writing to are the friends who are well-read and know how to express themselves in an intelligent, literate manner and my professors aren’t in the business of flattering egos and going easy on you for fear of bruising your self-esteem. I’ve been writing since I was fourteen, and after sixteen years of practice and making an effort to apply what I’ve learned about becoming a better writer I’ve polished up my skills enough that I can write circles around more than a few other popular authors and considering how much better my writing is than some currently popular young adult authors I’d like to think my chances of being published are very good. Having ADHD, there’s always a surplus of energy that needs to go somewhere, especially when I’m sitting down and need to stay still (and being an adult involves a lot of having to sit quietly for long periods of time, unfortunately). To keep from driving those around me nuts with my fidgeting, I knit, crochet, and cross stitch and tend to get lots of compliments on my work. At the moment, I’m working on taking pictures of some of what I’ve done and I’m going to be putting it up for sale on Etsy in the near future.