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xxxArdani
My
name is Ardani, I’m 20 and I live in Indonesia. My
friends usually call me Danny, you can call me that if
you want. I love books. I’ve loved them ever since I
was a little kid. My father used to take me to a
bookstore and let me pick any book I wanted. I was always
running across the bookstore and picking any manga I
liked. As I grew up I began to read some all-text books
(my definition of a novel). The first book I read was
Goosebumps series by R. L. Stine, and also Sherlock
Holmes series by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. But, even though
I liked these books, I still didn’t find the urge to
write my own book. It was only after I finished reading a
local fantasy novel that I began to dream myself as a
best-seller writer. The novel’s title was Holy
Knight, and the story is about a few chosen heroes to
save the world.
The first story I made was almost an exact copy of that
fantasy novel. Anyway, I submitted it on an internet
forum on novel writing (cyber novel they used to call it)
and, to my surprise, it received a pretty good comment!
With confidence, I continued to write until I was
enrolled to college. From then on I only wrote
occasionally and focused more on my campus duty. During
that time, I met a girl, a very beautiful one, who
happened to be the daughter of my father’s friend. I
love her. Before long, I started going out with her and
forgot about my writing entirely.
But, it all ended one day. My girl and I broke up. It was
so heartbreaking. So painful, just like a sword or three
stabs you in the heart, but you just couldn’t die
from it! I didn’t know what to do. For days I
kept mumbling nonsense, eating nothing, hoping the pain
would gone, but it wouldn’t. I couldn’t take it
anymore. I had to do something, anything, to take this
pain away. That is when I found writing again.
At first, I only wrote one word a day, then I closed the
laptop and did something till the day went by. The next
day I wrote one more word, and I shut the laptop. So went
the next day, and the next day. Before I knew it, I had a
sentence, a paragraph, and a story. The pain was gone
before I realized it, and now I feel like I found my new
world. I make a fantasy story to express my feelings, to
forget what has gone by, and to heal myself from the pain
I couldn’t bear. To me, it’s what keeps me
going. What make me stay alive. And I want to keep it
like that. To make writing my source of income. I
haven’t published any books yet, but I’m sure
I’ll be soon!
