I've been writing stories as long as I can remember - from the time my first grade teacher (when I was done with my other assignments) gave me a piece of paper with a picture on it and asked me to write a story. I have no memory of what I wrote about then, but story writing has long been a part of me (though my lowest grades in high school were consistently in English, lol) I started writing more seriously as an adult - in part as a way of coping with a loveless and abusive marriage. When I w...