For those who can't get why someone likes to write stories about werewolves ghosts and fairies, I'll just explain that I grew up reading lots of Scottish, Danish, Nordic and German fairy tales, so that's probably why I like to write fantasy. I'm not at all into hack and slash. I haven't watched a lot of television shows or anything, or science fiction. I loved the planetarium. Later I studied some Astrophysics at school. I looked up to John Glenn, a little, in that. As for aerodynamics, it is really cool, might be the way I put it long term though I love to weave in the fantasy element. I loved stories of sprites, elves, pixies, and imps as a kid, some even very scary ones.
At 10, I used to love King Arthur Stories, more than any girl I know. I had a book of Greek myths on my shelf at age 5 I read all of it. "Keeper of the Isis Light", might be the only science fiction novel I've read in the last decade. I think James Bond is interesting. I love spy and cold war books also. I also liked the ancient world, liked Indiana Jones' films. When I was little I used to read books on the ancient near east and ancient Rome. Maybe that's why I love "Gladiator" so much, and any great Roman epic like it.
When I was young my Dad used to go on business trips a lot. He brought us a celestial dragon kimono as a gift. And many other exotic things, Nordic to Indonesian, to go with the Egyptian black cats on the Mantel. My Mom spent time there in the late 60's as a young lady. She also spent time in Greece, so she brought us lots of Venus statuettes and interesting things, mostly things off the small islands. I love the atmosphere it set us, and it set me on the path of imagining alien worlds.
By age 4, we took a flight to Scotland that I can remember to visit our grandparents. I thought we were visiting a magical kingdom in the clouds!!! Something that was a floating island in the clouds, after all it did rain there all the time.
Last of all, my uncle once worked for NASA. I can remember him saying something about it, and I went and looked up all kinds of interesting things about space. So, even though I like gymnastics, dancing, voice acting and an active lifestyle, I did a lot of writing and academic research on my own. I started writing when I was 9, a story called "Hera and the Pegasus", and the next year I was reading so much King Arthur that I got a notion to write a space drama more detailed than anything I had ever seen. I spent years writing it, even researched and studied ancient languages in Chicago in order to make it really amazing.
I believe that writing is a passion. I believe that art, inspiration, and imagination make something real. It is through this that a person can make a small change in the world.
And enjoy the process of thought, creativity, adventure, and wonder.
I lose myself in the music at times. I love it when I lose myself in the writing. The world's an adventure. I love meeting people. But it's wonderful to create something, a vision. "I will give them something they've never seen before".
Isn't that what we all want to do?