When I was 7 years old, I plagiarized, word for word, stories from science fiction magazines so my teachers would think I was smart.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I began reading science fiction before I was 12 and started writing science fiction around the same time.
I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.
As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.
I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
When I was younger, I was full of smart things to say about all my books.
It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.
The stories that engaged me as a kid were all science fiction. Later, it turned out that I didn't have the language to talk about what was bothering me in a way that was straightforward.
Although I could read before I went to school, and I won the school reading prize at five years old, my early children's stories came from the radio and watching films at a cinema on Saturday mornings in Australia. It wasn't until I was nine years old on a ship returning from Australia that I was introduced to children's books.
While I was in high school, I discovered and began writing science fiction.
I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.