I LOVE to write, it seems I've always been writing SOMETHING. But my true love is listening. The greatest stories are heard, to write is to lend your "inner voice" to the story and preserve it on "paper" until it can be re-told. My influences are anyone who can string together words for a sentence, in my 1 year olds case, as long as you're passionate about the point you're trying to make that's OK too, even without the words.