I wrote a lot. I was in programs for drawing when I was a kid.
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I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.
Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.
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.
When I was about 12, I spent the summer writing four plays on my dad's old typewriter for a school play competition. And I wrote little comic bits at secondary school and at university.
I wrote a lot when I was younger, though never anything like plays or scripts.
Growing up, I enjoyed drawing, but it was always in the service of an idea. I drew all the time, and I enjoyed making.
I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.
I used to want to be a children's writer, because I would have all these great ideas when I was little, and I'd write them and draw them, and turn them into class.
I didn't write anything at all except book reports until I was in seventh grade, and then I wrote mostly poetry for myself.