I think from my earliest childhood, I liked to tell stories, put on plays and write things. It's funny to think of it as an "artistic bug" because I didn't necessarily want to be an artist. It's just who I was and how I communicate.
Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.
I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.