What inspires you to get out of bed each day?
Coffee! But really, after that, it's the writing - one word after another, as they say. I remember being eight, and asked to choose a special project for school. I wasn’t allowed to write a better Star Wars: Return of the Jedi (the next year I would enter the world of fanfiction and do it anyway) but I did manage permission to make my project a book of poetry. Suffice it to say, I really, really wanted to write something, even if I now cringe at my eight-year-old self’s idea of “fine rhyme”...and the want has not gone away!
Do you remember the first story you ever wrote?
Oh yes! In fact, as I mentioned above, the first thing I wanted to write, I ended up writing a year later - Star Wars, the retelling. My best friend and I were angry at the last movie for making Leia into Luke’s sister. In our version they weren’t siblings, they got married. Also Han kept dying and getting resurrected, and Yoda lived on Hoth. I have thankfully learned a great deal about plot holes since then - and about the right reasons to kill off a character.
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