I have been writing for as long as I can remember. I have written a lot of stories, and as soon as I got them done, I would throw them out with the trash. They were mine, and I really didn’t care t...view moreI have been writing for as long as I can remember. I have written a lot of stories, and as soon as I got them done, I would throw them out with the trash. They were mine, and I really didn’t care to show them to anyone. I felt that they were private and belonged to no one but me. I could always find a way to become anyone and anything. For me, it was a way to hide out from the real world. There you could become a superstar or a slave, even a man or a woman. I never knew who or what I was going to be until I sat down and started to write. I love the fact that as long as I was writing the story, no one else’s opinion really mattered. I was in control of my own world. There is no one that could tell you what to do in that world but yourself. I had been doing this for my whole life. It was how I made sense of the world that we live in. When I am writing, I can become anybody or anything. I wrote all types of books, from love stories to slasher books. The more blood the better is what my son would say. I was just a big nobody, and until I accepted that, I just had a lot of stories bouncing around in my mind. Then one day I put an idea on paper. That was that; I was hooked! I knew that my writing was how I could go anywhere and be anybody. It set me free, you could say. My mother told me not to listen to what people said about me but to give them something to talk about. That way, they could say what they wanted to say, but if they told the truth, you are the one in control and happy.view less