When did you first start writing?
I started writing for fun when I was in elementary school. I so enjoyed composition assignments! (Probably the only student in the class who did!)
Do you remember the first story you ever read, and the impact it had on you?
I don't remember the first story I ever read; my mother was reading to me from the time before my memory started, and I started reading as soon as I could---Dick and Jane books in school and anything else I could find in the public library. I remember reading "The Silly Book" when I was about 7.
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