I'm Phebe Rutledge and I'm 19 years old. I've been writing since I was 7. At first it started as just words trying to get out and then those words began to form themselves into stories, poems and eventually books. I can't say I've done it all on my own because there were times when I just wanted to stop because life was getting too hard. In those times I had people tell me that it was my stories and my creativity that helped them keep going and so they encouraged me to keep going in my writing.