What is Past is Prologue (or, Why I Do What I Do)

So what possesses an otherwise perfectly sane adult (I think) to spend their free time writing about imaginary people in imaginary places, going on imaginary adventures?  Glad you asked...

As a kid, I went to nine different schools in three different states, all between K and 9th grade... oh, wait - wrong blog.


This was my journey to becoming a writer of fantasy:

***Warning:  this post is a little lengthy and terribly self-indulgent - somewhere between a selfie and my own reality show.  But I thought it was enlightening for me to throw down almost all of my influences in one place...


1972
Born.  Nothing fantastical about that (other than my own umbilical cord tried to strangle me and failed) but you gotta start somewhere.