When I was a kid I would all the comics in the newpaper everyday and my was an avid comic book reader, so I would write my own comics, each in there own little panes, and with a bubble coming from the characters mouths. I used to draw side-box head characters. As I got older, I used dream what I thought were movie scenarios, and of course I always had a part in them, and there were times I would dream of myself as a male character. I would wake up thinking, "Wow, that would make an awesome movie." Then one day it hit me, these were not movie scenarios I was dreaming of, but book characters and the characters was acting out the scene. That's when I took to sleeping with a notepad and pencil by my bed. Of course, if I didn't wake up and write what I remembered in my dream right away, some of it was forgotten, so I would take what I remembered and create stories from that. I have lots of unfinished pieces. I'm working on each piece one at a time.  My motivation stems from wanting to have at least one published story, I want to earn the right to have title 'author' in front of my name. I've seen so many people with that title in front of their names, and it makes wonder, are they really authors, or just something they call themselves.