But actually, I've always been a writer. I just haven't published, much. and much of my writing would be hard to see.
I wrote my first poem in junior high, and it was published in the school paper. I still have it, somewhere, and will burden you with it when I find it. just to show.
as to stories, though, I've composed them for longer... in my mind. when I was 7, I got pneumonia, going out in a fishing expedition with my father and sitting in the brow. My mother came in one day to apologize for leaving me alone so long, and I told her not to worry - I amused myself by telling myself stories.
I wish now she had asked me to tell them to her! I would like to see them…