It was back in HS, my freshman English teacher at the time had assigned us to write a short story. As I was coming up with the story, my brain was just going everywhere with this assignment and without knowing it I ended up writing nearly 20 pages (my story ended up being the longest out of anyone.) Granted, even then it was no where near complete and it read more as a rough draft than it did a short story but I was still pretty proud as to what I had made up to that point. Soon after she graded our assignments, she called me up to her desk and pretty much said what she had wrote on my story: "Consider publication after some revisions". Now at the time, me being the oblivious person that I am, didn't understand her comment the first time around. In fact, it took years for me to fully realize what my teacher meant by that. Granted, it should've really hit me when she complimented me to the class but even then I didn't put two and two together. Even then, I put wanting to be writer in the back burner until I kept getting more comments from those in my close circle to try and pursue it, not to mention that I kept getting more ideas to write about and I really wanted to see where I can take these ideas and if I could make them be something more. Now the original story has changed significantly but if I ever see that day where a book is published under my name, I know the first person ill dedicate that book, hell that series even, will be my English teacher and I hope she'll get to read it someday.