Hello! Whether you are a close friend of mine (I know most of the people reading this probably are), or a stranger, I appreciate you being here. My name is Kayla and I am twenty years old. The extent of interesting things about me is this: I work at the movies and I am studying creative writing at QUT. And that’s just about it, at least for now.
It took me a long time to realise that writing is what I want my career to be. In high school I changed my mind a lot about what I wanted to be – a journalist, a World War II historian (?), photographer. I ended up dabbling a little in photography, and for a year and a bit I worked for a school photography company, travelling to schools around Queensland and northern NSW, begging children to say CHEESE! for a picture their parents paid a lot of money for.
When I was younger I used to write a lot, stories I thought were great but were eventually
forgotten about. Regretfully, my passion was forgotten about too, and before this year, the last time I can remember sitting down to write something for fun was in 2016. I don’t really have an explanation for this, as writing is something I have always enjoyed. In the later half of last year, it occurred to me that I’d been neglecting my love for writing. Hence began my university journey.
This year I completed the first year of my degree, and now have two left. Sometimes when I’m writing my little stories, or even this, I wonder who would care about what I have to say. But then I think, if John Green or Leigh Bardugo had let the same mindset stop them from writing anything, I would be very sad. And that’s not to compare any of my work to either of theirs. My writing develops with every character I create, every story I write, and every word typed onto that blank Word page. I plan to upload some of my short stories (which will most likely be my university assignments), and, ambitious though humble, I hope that you may enjoy something that you read.
