When Mell Eight was in high school she wrote a short story for an English class.  The assignment was for no more than five pages, yet she had turned in ten and the story wasn't completed.  Her teacher was impressed, but writing stories for fun was her main source of procrastination from homework; handing in an assignment that actually asked her to write fiction was too good to pass up.  Since then Mell has continued writing, posting in many online communities for fanfiction and original fiction, and eventually branching into slash fiction.  She mostly writes paranormal or fantasy stories, but has been seen exploring the real world once or twice.