As I have enjoyed reading since I was very young, I have also enjoyed writing for almost as long. I’m not exactly sure when I started writing my own little stories, but I do know that I have some very vivid memories of wanting to write a novel when I was in middle school. In fact, there was a specific notebook that was one of the first ones I dedicated to using only for my personal writing. It was a large wide ruled notebook with a yellow to orange ombre cover with an orange plastic spiral binding. I used this notebook to write simple ideas, parts of actual stories, and…