Might be a little late... Sounds like my usual, but…
Star Trek kind of started it for me. I started originals and loved the process and creativity in school and used that to get out of the bad situation. They were mostly vicious shorts, blood she'd and violence galore... (Has anything really changed?... ...) Then I started writing in the Star Trek universe for a little, expanded outward from shorts into novels... Which in turn became originals again... (A full circle, weird and crazy, but yeah...) Sci Fi has always been a part of my writing, I've just expanded out…
And I ramble on...