Unstoppable

For my fellow writers, this post is for you.
When I decided to write a novel, I was only 13 or 14. I wasn't all that serious about it. I just thought it might be fun. I never could have guessed how far it would go. I'm still not sure how successful it will be in the world.
I've been thinking a lot about it and I realized something. I may not remember the exact moment I decided to write a novel, but I remember the moment I became serious about it. It was the fall of my freshman year in high school. In English, we were reading a story in which a character wanted to be a novelist but had given up. I realized that I really didn't want that to be me. How sad would it be to have such a wonderful dream and give up on it?
And that was the moment it all changed. Something changed within me, and I couldn't go back to thinking about writing a novel every once in a great while. I knew that no matter what it took, I WOULD finish a novel. And I did.
From that moment on, I was so determined to do it that nothing could stand in my way, not writer's block, not even a truck fire that would destroy all I had written. I was unstoppable.