I haven't been on here in a long time, although I've been a member for three years. When I started this account, I was a freshman in high school who was just beginning to think outside the typical box of writing. I dabbled in poetry, because of writers like Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson, but my writing and poems were juvenile and mostly full of my teenage angst. Since then I have rewritten almost every poem countless times and switched to fictional short stories. Since my immature freshman writings, I have also dabbled in the art of painting, charcoal drawings and photography. Mind you I wasn't very good at anything (in my opinion), ...