I had a few creative writing assignments in high school, even writing an original short story for a final, on the spot.
I have met one of my favorite authors, Ray Bradbury, and got to speak with him 1 on 1 and he gave some writing advice. Other influences include Hunter S.Thompson, Thorne Smith, Ogden Nash, Stephen King, Thoreau, John Kennedy Toole, Abbie Hoffman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Shel Silverstein, Robert Frost, Shakespeare, Aeschylus, Homer, Arthur C. Clark, Douglas Adams, George Orwell, and Maurice Sendak, Charles Dickens, and an eclectic list of others. I write various genres.I more...
