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During my college freshman summer when I was doing my first internship. I bought paints to have something to do after work, as this was the first time in my life I didn’t have homework. This summer, I painted several simple dinosaur paintings! So why dinosaurs? As a kid, I was obsessed with dinosaurs, and this aspect is something most people still associate with me. I didn’t necessarily feel like I HAD to only paint dinosaurs, but they felt like a reasonable default subject to use to practice different styles. The first painting I did was a somewhat abstract one, where my primary intent was to just practice painting clean lines, but I do like how it turned out. ...

In sixth grade, we had an assignment to write something that might have been a short story, might have been a medium length story, or might have been the start of the novel. I honestly don’t remember, but I do remember that I resolved to expand mine into a full novel. I had never really had a long attention span for my projects, so this was a huge change of pace. ...

The Caterpillar (misspelled catterpillar) was my first “long” story (~1800 words). I wrote this in kindergarten on the sheets of half-lined paper they gave us so that I could use the top half of the sheets to draw pictures. You will notice a motif of the protagonist defeating enemies and capturing them to join his side. I believe this was inspired by my first exposure to Pokemon around this time of my life. ...