I am (now almost 23)and have been writing since I was a freshman in high school. I started out with fan-fiction, and mind you I was damn good. (Not my words, but words from anyone who read my work.) I met a guy who made me stop because he was jealous of the story lines. (He was very controlling, but I went along with it because I loved him.) I now want to go beyond that genre since I've gotten older and I know I can expand my horizons. When I was in first grade, I decided to be a writer when I was older and now I'm trying to work my way up. What better way than to do it here?  My first step is to get noticed here, then write an e-book, and hopefully get published by a big time publisher.