Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
I grew up on the top of a snowy mountain... no really, I spent my formative years living in an old farm house atop a mountain in NH. Most of the land I lived on was dense forest and I spent much of my time exploring it. It's hard not to fall in love with fantasy when you practically live in a magical forest.
When did you first start writing?
I had always made up little stories to entertain myself in boring situations; long car rides, in bed before I sleep, math class, you know, the usual places. I had started to put some of my stories down, but stopped for a few years after the computer I stored them all on died, and I lost all my work. I picked it up later, and have been doing my best to make up for lost time.
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