I’m always intrigued to find out what experience made someone into a writer. 

For me: I was obsessed with action figures as a child. I had a paper route and every ounce of spare change I had fueled my addiction. I would use my bedroom as a "battleground" and would spread my action figures around the room using a weird narrative that I would narrate myself over the course of several days. I’d log the whole thing in a journal and keep track of the ongoing battles.

Think something like Cyclops and Batman taking an X-Wing across Dagobah to battle a Dragon. That’s one of the first I remember. I used to use fishing line to string up my flying toys from the ceiling. Looking back, my childhood bedroom probably looked like the perfect place for a gestating serial killer.

But that was my first brush with story. It made me obsessed with adventure and really motivated me to use my imagination in creative ways.

It was only years later, looking back, that I realized this is where it all began.