Some would be embarrassed by what indirectly kindled my desire to write. I'm not. It started with the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer (BtVS in internet nerd speak). I am a child of the 90s, but I didn't actually watch the show until a couple of years ago on Netflix. I thought I would give it a spin, and holy wow...I loved it. Great writing, campy vampire action, super 90s...it's pretty much had everything I ever wanted in a TV show. So anyway, that led me down the rabbit hole of nerd culture that I'd neglected for a long time. I also learned that BtVS continued in comic form after season 7. So naturally I had to go read all of them. And that lead me back into comic book reading.
I also started following more nerd culture type blogs and web channels. One was Geek & Sundry on youtube, which is awesome, and everybody should check out. Felicia Day had a show and talked about a lot of different stuff. One of the things she mentioned on a show was a website called Fan Write Friday where somebody would put up a prompt for a comic script and people would submit short comic stories for members of the group to review. And I thought, "I can do that."
So I started writing short scripts every week. From there I moved on to comic miniseries type projects and short prose stories. So that is in a nutshell why I decided to start writing. It's been fun, and it's incredibly fulfilling. It also drives me nuts a lot of the time, but that's OK.