It's just something I've always done and never been able to give up no matter how much I've tried. How it developed it interesting though.
I was not an only child, but an unexpected one. My siblings were in their late teens and two had moved out when my Mother got pregnant. By the time I was two it was just me and my parents in the house and there was no one in my neighbourhood for me to play with so I could get a bit lonely and my toys were my best friends. I've always been fascinated with stories and would get really engrossed in movies - like I was there. I missed out on a lot of school growing up as my Mother was ill for quite some years. So my writing abilities were years behind others, but I did used to put on plays for my Mother in her bedroom to entertain her, which would be written out in gibberish extensively. Everyone thought I was going to be an actress when I was older, so I did lots of classes as a pre-teen and as a teenager. We had to write a monologue for a performance and although my performance was lacking my teacher was very taken with the depth of my monologue and how "well-written" it was for a thirteen year old. I quit acting and started reading more and learning about writing.
At fifteen my English Teacher thought I'd plagiarised or gotten someone else to write a piece of creative fiction for me because I got an A* instead of my predicted grade of an E. I had to prove I hadn't cheated by writing another one in front of her.
I was not an only child, but an unexpected one. My siblings were in their late teens and two had moved out when my Mother got pregnant. By the time I was two it was just me and my parents in the house and there was no one in my neighbourhood for me to play with so I could get a bit lonely and my toys were my best friends. I've always been fascinated with stories and would get really engrossed in movies - like I was there. I missed out on a lot of school growing up as my Mother was ill for quite some years. So my writing abilities were years behind others, but I did used to put on plays for my Mother in her bedroom to entertain her, which would be written out in gibberish extensively. Everyone thought I was going to be an actress when I was older, so I did lots of classes as a pre-teen and as a teenager. We had to write a monologue for a performance and although my performance was lacking my teacher was very taken with the depth of my monologue and how "well-written" it was for a thirteen year old. I quit acting and started reading more and learning about writing.
At fifteen my English Teacher thought I'd plagiarised or gotten someone else to write a piece of creative fiction for me because I got an A* instead of my predicted grade of an E. I had to prove I hadn't cheated by writing another one in front of her.