When did you first start writing?
I was scribbling silly little stories as soon as I could write. I drew a lot, too, when I was younger, so my childhood writing was in graphic novel form. I was probably 11 or 12 before I started writing real narratives.
Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
I was fortunate enough to have a somewhat bohemian childhood. For most of my childhood we lived in a very rural area in upstate NY, and we had goats, and I ran around barefoot and shirtless. We had no TV and no neighbors, so I learned to amuse myself with my own imagination, which is probably the best gift I was ever given as a kid.
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