I've been writing for as long as I can remember, but then I started to really write stories when I was in second grade. I've been writing heavily ever since. One of the major influences that got me to really write was the death of my father in the summer before fourth grade and I say this because at that time I hated my world and so I continued to make up my own. Those worlds I made up I now use in much of my writing. Just about every time there is a significant change in my life, I start a new story. I must say that the time when I get most of my story ideas is when I'm in the bathroom or in the shower. I guess it's because I really don't have anything else to really do and so I go into deep thinking mode. Problem with this is that I now have over 50 story ideas and about half of them are outlined. Yet each time I come up with one of these ideas and write it down, i then get the great need to start writing it. So my collection of stories is many with only about 3 or 4 that are completed.