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About writing…

2 min readApr 4, 2019

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Just a glimpse of my journey

…just writing…

I became a writer in 2016. I mean, I’ve always liked to write but I just never thought I’d be working with that one day.

Writing begins

The first thing I wrote was a story about 2 birds that crossed the ocean to find their former owner. I was 6 or 7 years old and it was a school project, I still have the book, by the way. Back then I wasn’t in love with the words, at least not writing them, I’ve always loved reading. I used to hate when I had to summarise a story for school. I remember tears were involved in the process.

Throughout the years I worked with different things but when I turned 24 or 25 I started creating content on the internet. That’s when it clicked. I started college and had to write a book of short stories for a project and bam! My writing asleep soul was awake again.

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Are we all destined to be someone?

Many people are born with whatever they’re gonna do in life already settled. Not me. I wanted to be a musician, a biologist, a programmer, an FBI agent but never a writer. I had all of those specific moments that children have in different phases of…

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Felipe Xavier
Felipe Xavier

Written by Felipe Xavier

Writer | Podcaster | Musician | Cinephile | Dreamer

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