Introductions

Hey! I’m Madeline.

At age twelve, I bound my first novel with nothing but glue and cardboard. I always knew I wanted to be a writer: I spent most of my childhood making up stories and attempting to write novels. I write to make sense of everything around me.

However, I am so much more: I am introspective, an advocate, and a wordsmith. I am a musician, a designer, and a Potterhead. I’m old-fashioned: I make my own clothes sometimes, use a typewriter, sip herbal tea and read dusty books. I desire environments that will both nurture my creativity and expand my sense of self.

I decided to start this blog for several reasons:

I’m really bad at initiating things I claim as aspirations. I can say I want to become a bestselling novelist, but unless I sit down and haul ass, that’s never going to happen.

Also, it’s hard for me to share my writing with others, which is a bad problem to have for someone who wants to write for a living. This blog is me relinquishing control and telling myself that not everything has to be perfect before I let anyone see it. Because, obviously, it will never be perfect.

Lastly, I recently realized how little information I tell people about my college experience. Of course, many students give clichéd answers to their extended family members at Thanksgiving, but even my own friends back home have said to me, “What’s OSU like? I feel like you never talk about it.” To me, my whole life feels monumentally different than it did two years ago, but I’m stuck in my head so often that I hardly realize people don’t know that. This is me being better at sharing my life, because I want others to be part of it as much as they do.

Overall, I don’t have much of a niche yet, but I’m sure that will come with time. You can expect musings about my life, stories about travels, rantings about books, bad photography, and perhaps tutorials about various sewing projects. Not having this thing fully developed is scary to me, but I’m learning to be cool with that.

Thanks for reading!