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@a_nna

Thanks so much for asking the question on why we write, Anna.  I really enjoyed hearing everyone’s stories.  It was very encouraging. (btw, my name is Lily)

@a_nna wrote: “When do you think your stories shifted from the little fluff-fantasies we write as children into something a bit more serious, or at least more planned?”

I’d say it started when I was going from middle-grade into high school.  I was learning the concept of outlining stories, and had started reading books by Elizabeth George Speare.  I remember being amazed at how she could draw on the reader’s emotions and create compelling, deep stories.  I knew that I wanted to learn how to do that.

@writergirl101

Poor Joe!!  I hope he was safely rescued 😉

I remember using an old computer too!  Playing with fonts was so much fun!  *Not that I still do that from time to time…* *cough cough*

@arindown

Oh man, I loved the Boxcar Children series as a kid; that and horses! (Though we never had one of our own).  I used to write stories based off that series (and a few other books like Narnia XD)

And hey, people are doing cool (or weird) alternate spellings of common names for characters.  So maybe ‘Bin’ would actually fit in 🙂