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I love teaching creative writing, and I think I'm good at it, but in a different life, I could have been teaching elementary school.

I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.

My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.

I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to read and my writing was an outgrowth of that.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

I was always interested in creative writing growing up. From junior high on, I was writing short stories. I also grew up watching movies. My father would take me to everything. Most weeks, I could open the paper having seen every movie listed.

I've only ever taken a playwriting class, but I like creative writing and writing screenplays.

I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.