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I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design.

In junior high, I was still writing poems and stories. In college, I was a journalism major. When I got out of college, I went to work for an educational publisher, so I was still writing, developing curriculums.

Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine articles to pay for my studio. I have to put myself into the position of writing; sometimes it doesn't work, and sometimes it works great.

Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etchings illustrating stories based on my readings in classical literature.

I was a Fine Art major. You do a bit of everything until the final year, when you specialise. I did pencil drawing and sculpture. It's a pretty well-rounded fine art education. I thought that it was viable option to make a living out of art. I'm not sure if I was thinking realistically; maybe I never was. But it had great appeal.

I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.

I was a history major, but that was because it took the fewest requirements of any major. In my sophomore year, I started getting back into making movies. My senior year, I took playwriting classes, and I feel like that's where I learned to be a writer.

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

I was an English major in college with minors in Fine Arts and Humanities.