hello and welcome to my profile! i'm lakos ("lake-house"). 

i've always enjoyed writing stories, but i definitely got more into it right around when i stopped being able to play with toys (age... 12?). for that reason, writing kind of feels like my grown up form of play. 

another reason i write is just to see what i will write. for me it's about self-discovery, as well as self-care and self-expression. lately i've even been experimenting with it in my work, using short stories to illustrate my ideas. fiction is my secret weapon!

i write less today than when i was younger (i'm 26!!! you're all ANTS) mainly because i'm not embedded in online communities like i was then, so writing has become a lot more of a solitary, personal practice. at first i struggled with it a lot, now i'm finding it's just different. though obviously i miss it a fair bit, since here i am, on an online community based around writing.

feel free to shoot me a message if you feel so inclined -- sometimes i'm slow, but i always respond!