Hey- I'm Michael. Writer-hobbyist. No efforts made yet to get anything published, but who knows?

I don't know how long or biographical this is supposed to be, but... when I was a little kid, I was the little kid that all the other kids got annoyed at, because when we played He-Man/GI Joe/Go-Bots/Transformers, (sometimes all at the same time,) I insisted that it wasn't enough for the good guys to fight the bad guys- there had to be a reason. I would construct long, elaborate plots with ample twists and turns, and occasionally a few side-adventures. When I was 12 or so, I had a teacher that made us all write a 1 page story. I couldn't fit my little fantasy on one page, so I filled up the back, (which was still, I figured, technically one page,) with the letters getting tinier and tinier as I reached the end of the page and the conclusion. She liked it a lot, but I didn't think much of it until waaaay later, when someone recognized my name from the story and told me that same teacher was -still- using my story as an 'example,' years and years after I wrote it. Which was kind of flattering, but also a little weird. It was enough flattery, I guess, to make me write more, and in writing more, I realized that I actually enjoyed the process.

I've been writing ever since.