I heard that my college friends Adam and Dan had written a computer game called Choice of the Dragon. It took me a while to look it up and play it – but as soon as I did, I knew this was how I’d wanted to tell stories since I was a kid improvising CYOAs verbally with my friends. Back then, I tried out a program that would let me write text adventures… but it was incredibly cumbersome for a non-programmer. CS worked.
So I started writing, then started asking questions on the forum, then started getting involved in other conversations and reading WIPs… and here we are.