I always liked to write. I started with poetry as a 8 year-old, then went on with fantasy ans scifi stories as a teenager. Of course I didn't publish anything, it was just for the fun of it. My teachers seemed to like what I wrote and very often my essay was read to my schoolmates (talk about embarrassing, thank God I was a popular geek!). I have always been a Drama queen. One of my teachers said that if there was one person who could successfully and convincingly demonstrate all the negative aspects of a particular situation, it was me :) For me the glass was always half empty and my stories usually ended in tears and death (I know I'm twisted :twisted: ). About 5-6 years ago, I finally had the courage to show my first creation to fellow The Pretender fans (it was called A Time To Meet, don't look for it, it has completely disappeared from the net). My loss of interest in the show and a major computer crash prevented me from ever publishing the second installment of this series (4 stories were planned). After that real life made it impossible to find time to go on writing. My fantasies stayed in my head and it was okay like that. Recently I gave in and started writing again. As I was back at being completely addicted to ER, I thought why not give it a chance. This time I decided to go for comedy. That was a first for me. My first fic was a short piece of fluff. The second was pointless and soon forgotten. The third is currently driving me nuts. Don't get me wrong! I love to write it and I'm happy about the feedback I'm getting (if that doesn't kick my ego, nothing will). But I didn't realize how time consuming it would become :lol: Some of my readers said they were obsessed by the story and I must sadly say, I was not much better. I started thinking about the next chapter at any time of the day or night. That little thing wouldn't let me rest!!! Last weekend I decided that drastic measures were called for. I needed to calm down and forced a break on me: 2 days with no update or writing what so ever! I'm happy to say I'm back to normal (what aver that means and I am not sure I actually qualify for 'normal' :lol: ). I hope that will last for at least for a month :) One can always dream :lol: