Solitaireman

I started writing after I discovered I had something in common with Mark Twain. Our respective births were announced by natural phenomenon. His was the passing of Halley's Comet while mine was the creation of Earthquake Lake in Yellowstone Park. I grew up in an homogeneous and ultraconservative society so there was not much to do. Originally, I wrote poetry as a way of coping with the bullying I had experienced in school. Later, I wrote essays and short stories. I even began to work on a novel. I have at least a half dozen published credits, including an article published in a national magazine. I am great I found this site. I hope to learn as much as I can from my contemporaries.