Starting something

I've been writing for a long time.  

I like to write.  Sometimes I love writing, and sometimes I hate it, but I always like it.

I don't know where it all comes from.

Sometimes I imagine myself underwater.  I can see this muddled world around me, and I have a sense of something happening above me, but i can't reach it.  If I relax, though, it's like I float up a little bit, and the top of my head comes out of the water, where the air kind of chills it.  I can feel it prickling with cold and at the same time filling with images and thoughts and ideas.

I started writing as a kid.  When I was ten, I wrote some detective stories that were partly inspired by Calvin and Hobbes (the strips where he's a detective), and partly by the novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams.  When I was sixteen I read The Prophecy, by Kahlil Gibran, so I wrote a series of symbolic anecdotes called The Traveler.

I just finished my first novel.  Well, let's call it my first novel.  Maybe there have been others, but this is the first one I'm working toward publication with.

It's called Gilly Frank's Record Collection.