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LTUE Or Why I Started a Blog

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I have been a writer/story teller longer than I can remember.  My family recalls my stories from as young as 3 years old about things I should have known nothing about (i.e. Easter Island and buffalo).  I took as many creative writing classes in high school and college as my science degree allowed.  When I wasn't saving the world through research, I was writing and still am. At first it was a way to express myself as a kid/teenager then it morphed into a way to entertain my young daughter.  Finally it developed into a passion to share the ideas that formed in my head; to pull out the characters and plots that plagued my waking moments and put them on the page.  I wasn't kidding when I said I hear voices.  Most of the time, it is characters screaming, "PAY ATTENTION TO ME!  You left me dangling in a horrible situation.  Let's find out what happens next." I have two "completed" novels and a handful of short stories.  We won't even count the ra