I started writing short stories of my own about the age of eleven. I discovered this pleasure of story telling and writing much earlier while playing with dolls and cars, plushes and other toys: there was always some story to tell behind, some adventure to get them involved into and I was lucky to have my siblings around to torture them with my views. The first time I felt an actual writing thrill was in second grade when we were asked to make-up the continuing of a story we were read the first half. It was a feeling that I could not describe the one I had when told that I was allowed more...