“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.” ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ — Thomas Mann ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ When I first began this blog, in 2009, it provided for me as a young teenager a way to connect with a world beyond the confines of my own. I was 15, running scared, yet going nowhere. Words fell naturally from my conscious onto the pages of my blog; I bled without any inhibition and found at least temporary release. Connecting with an audience – of only a few hundred initially – liberated me, and was my first experience of interacting with a reality which challenged my sense of isolation. I was discovering the music of Bruce Springsteen amidst the ongoing tragedy of…