I started my writing career by writing novels. In sixth grade, I started a rather weird grand novel that didn’t go very far; in seventh grade I got to read in English class my twenty-page magnum opus that was the beginning of a novel or set of novels which I developed in my head most of the way through college. In eighth grade I started a novel which ended up with three drafts, the third of which I finished my first year in college. In college I wrote one novel, and then wrote about a third o...