When you're not writing, how do you spend your time?
I read. I exercise - I run. When my hubby comes home from work I watch copious amount of TV with him. Then usually we get to doing...something else. I'll let you use your imagination. We usually have lazy week-ends. Sometimes dinner parties. Often board game nights. He and I are big nerds that way.
When did you first start writing?
Grade 2. Back then I did a lot of plagiarizing, mainly from my mom and dad's Archie and Disney comics. My English teacher at the time seemed oblivious to this, and so she used to read my stuff at the front of the class to show off how brilliant and creative I was. Of course this was horribly embarrassing for me, since I basically copied everything. She once read mine in front of the class next to another creative journal, to show how creative I was, and what a terrible writer the other girl was. That girl hated me from then on of course, and I sort of started hating my teacher. A teacher should never humiliate her students like that. Incidentally, that girl dropped out in grade 4 and became a model. And that teacher had a nervous breakdown and quit - while furiously shaking *me*, by the way. Apparently she was mad when she realized I wasn't listening during a lesson. I've since been diagnosed with ADHD. All of this is true, but you can believe it or not.
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