I wrote my first book, Yassmin’s Story, after a four year mechanical engineering degree and no formal writing training. It was a good story n fairly readable, but it was no literary masterpiece. I didn’t think of myself as much of a writer, really... 1/

I could tell stories, but be a writer? Cmon mate. Everyone in my family is an engineer (except mum who studied architecture https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😆" title="Lächelndes Gesicht mit geöffnetem Mund und fest verschlossenen Augen" aria-label="Emoji: Lächelndes Gesicht mit geöffnetem Mund und fest verschlossenen Augen">). We are ze technical type. We aren’t writers.

Except... I continued writing. N Alhamdulilah the team at @PenguinTeenAus gave me a chance. 2/

And now I’m at a point where I’m writing more than I’m doing anything else - fiction, non fiction, scripts and more, and tho I’m still learning and growing, I’m... getting there. I’m starting to feel quite proud of what I write, and that’s pretty huge, Alhamdulilah 3/

All that to say - sometimes, we don’t conceive of ourselves in a particular way. We have those ye old fixed ideas of who we are and what we are capable of. I certainly did. But, we can learn, grow, change, evolve. And that’s so exciting.
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So, if this old race car designing drilling engineer can plot twist into a teen fiction writer, you can do anything too! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🥰" title="Smiling face with 3 hearts" aria-label="Emoji: Smiling face with 3 hearts">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✊🏽" title="Erhobene Faust (mittlerer Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Erhobene Faust (mittlerer Hautton)">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎉" title="Partyknaller" aria-label="Emoji: Partyknaller">