Meet and Greet/Question of the Week # 2 : When did you discover that you enjoyed writing , and why do you do it ?

I first enjoyed writing at school. What I produced was usually facetious or parodic or both. At about 14 the writing started to become more original, but I was put off by the attempt to make us reduce literature to a collection of tricks-of-the-trade. I did n't really get back to it till a couple of years ago when I found a game with customisable dialogue. I wrote a few files for that, and then an idea turned up in my mind and I wrote a first scene just to stop the itch. That turned into a part-finished book, and from there I've gone on to various other part-finished things. ( Diligence is not my strong point - I have too many ideas and not enough sticking-power, which is why it's useful to have to produce something for this sub in a few hours between bouts of work. ) 
 
 On thinking it over, I find I like writing because it lets me indulge my tendency to look at the other sides of every question or idea. When I do it in other contexts it makes me unpopular - for some reason people do n't seem to appreciate being made to think differently.; )
