I am the kind of guy who looks to stories for answers, I wonder what awaits me in the years to follow. I hear the world around us is burning, I see escape within the folds of a book's page. // I am an author in the making, I pretend I am closer to that goal then I am. I feel a sort of reverence for all those who wrote before me, I touch upon their works in my memory. I worry I can't possibly live up to their legacies, I cry for the chance to pen my own footprint. // I am a dreamer, not a realist. I understand life is not always fair, but I say to that, "make it." I dream of my name on a hard cover, and I try every day to grasp that vision with, I hope, a steady writing hand. // I am Erin Giddings.