I began writing songs when I was 13 years old and it immediately became my favorite thing to do. After school, I would sit for hours in my room writing songs (the majority of them being awful, but you gotta start somewhere) and teaching myself how to play guitar. I started performing in my hometown of Cary, NC when I was 14. I played in bars, pubs, at festivals, and basically anywhere I could play. My biggest inspiration at the time for songwriting was Taylor Swift (she still is almost ten years later!) because she was one of the only artists I knew who wrote her own music…