Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
I grew up in Illinois during the 60's, but my family moved around a lot. It gave me a pretty broad view of the world, since we never seemed to settle anywhere long enough for me to really fit in. It was a mostly lonely existence, but it did allow me to see the world from the outside in rather than from the inside out.
It was also how I learned to watch and learn from what people did and the ways that they behaved.
When did you first start writing?
I actually started writing when I was in high school. Mostly science fiction stories and things like that, but I took many years where life kept me from writing until I was finally fairly stable in my life and felt the need to write what I knew about and experienced.
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