April talking meme

velvetwhip asked_Was there a writer who made you want to write? And why.

Not in the sense that I read a particular author and felt: “Aha, I must write”. The closest is probably L. M. Montgomery. Not with Anne Shirley, though she writes and generally is the favourite, but with Emily. I always liked Anne, but her journey is one of the odd one who learns to adapt and fit in. Emily is much queerer and much more stubborn. Even Emily as an adult is seen as a peculiar person and she doesn’t seem to mind. And the way the need to write was described in the Emily-books was something that always stayed with me. And it’s something I understand- the need to express yourself with words and the sense of loss when one can’t.