Rebeca Virgo
Age: 23
Panamanian
"I love laughter! It's the best medicine for the soul."
I started writing when I was ten years old. There was a contest from a local newspaper in which kids had to write a story for a chance of winning a bike and I participated because I really LOVED riding a bike and I wanted a new one. I wrote the story one afternoon and sent it and I ended up being among the top three kids that won a bike. And that's how it all started.
I didn't start exploring what writing meant to me until I was almost thirteen years old. All the stories I've written since then have either been lost (because I wrote a lot on paper) or, I still have them on notebooks or in the computer. But most of them are unknown to the public, except for those I once published on Facebook that, even though they were a bit bizarre, people really enjoyed them and made comments asking for more!
Once I started to write more I felt that I wanted to become a writer. I started two novels years ago, each of them had a couple of chapters, but I just never finished them for different reasons. Then, I gradually stopped writing short stories and I even stopped writing my thoughts and feelings. Now, I have this blog in an attempt to not lose the habit of expressing myself through writing!