My best friend growing up actually got me into writing my own stories! :D I can't remember how old we were, but we were really into fantasy and often play-pretended being elves and rangers going on magical quests and all that. We actually had those duct-taped padded swords and would fight with them and everything. When we got older, we did RP's and Warcraft games. One day, he decided that we should try writing down our own story, and although we never got far, it really got me into thinking, "Hey! I can come up with my own stories and adventures and write them down to keep!"

I don't really remember when exactly I got into writing fanfiction, but I believe it was through playing Pokemon FireRed, and might have been partly influenced by the Dinotopia series. I had restarted the game several times because I kept wanting to experience the story over and over, and one day I realized that, "Hey! I can come up with my own story for a Pokemon adventure!"

I think I felt really attracted to Pokemon because it's universe was so vast--anyone could be a Trainer, and they could have any type of Pokemon they wanted. That meant there were thousands of stories that were waiting to be told. Dinotopia inspired me because the series had so many different authors who wrote in their own unique perspective of the world, and I thought I could do the same with Pokemon.

I started out as a noob on Bulbagarden, but grew disillusioned with it and left. Later on, I came to a lovely little place called Pe2k where I met a fantastic group of authors who ultimately helped me to improve my writing and get to where I am today :)