1-When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer?

Around 5th Grade. I was big into playing pretend and started writing stories in my composition journals. I kept writing, primarily through play-by-post roleplaying–which, for those who don’t know, is a collaborative kind of writing where you send replies to another writer. One of my writing partners told me to consider writing a novel. It felt like validation, as I’d always considered writing an unreachable and impractical profession, but I dreamed of doing it anyway.