My love of writing grew out of my love of reading. Books were a great escape. I could go any where, do anything, be anyone in the pages of a book. I even read the backs of cereal boxes at the breakfast table! I started writing fiction in 8th grade when our english teacher handed us photos and told us to write something. My photo was of an abandoned warehouse. The story ended up being about a man who was accused of killing a friend of his and ran from the cops. The story itself was the final confrontation between the man and the cops in that warehouse. After I got an A on that story, I was h more...