I first started writing as an adolescent way of self expression. There was a lot bottled up warring to get out so, I wrote poetry. It allowed me to disassociate from my feelings. I could pour them out on paper and they were no longer mine. I have notebook full of poems.

What floored me is when I screwed up the courage to submit some of my scribblings and found people actually liked what I had to say. I have had poetry published. This was not done under my real name because my family would not appreciate me even remotely "airing the dirty laundry."

I did not get into fan fiction until about five years ago and I have never had a burning desire to write original fiction.