WHO AM I?

I still remember the first story I ever wrote for an audience. It was in school, year 5. This was not like the hundreds of stories I had told before. ​The ones I made up for fun, or because I was bored or because I just really liked telling tales. I had worked on this one, it had structure, it had motion, ​characters and a Plot. This one mattered somehow.

I won't retell the story here for it was not a ​very good story​. ​ I was just ten at the time so of course it was not a good story. But I remember reading it out in the room of 20 kids and one adult. The room was silent and when I finished it stayed silent. Just for a​ beat, and in that beat I fell in love with fiction, the power of it to stop a room. ​From that point on I have always been writing