I am an aspiring author and to put it plainly, I am totally messed up. There is so much information out there and so many blogs with advice that it is truly not hard to get lost in the plethora of information. It makes your brain want to explode. At first I read make sure you write things which you are passionate about, ok makes sense. Well, I absolutely love romance, mystery, history, music, fiction, nonfiction, and of course comedy. So I pretty much love everything except sci-fi and gore. My first essay I wrote was about going back to the small family farm I grew up on. Easy, right! I had a ton of emotion behind it, crying the entire time I wrote it, and the words just poured out onto the pages almost faster than I could type it. I have a beautiful friend who is genuinely a well established author in Canada who offered to take a look at it and give me some tips. Her critiques were well received, much needed, and I tried my very best to correct everything she suggested. I felt amazing...