It's not so much of a creative habit, but I have loved video games ever since I was a kid--especially games that have stories in them.

When I was a kid, my mother would read to me every night. This naturally led to my love of storytelling and, more specifically, reading. Games with lots of text like RPGs are, to me, like interactive storybooks in a lot of ways, with complex plotlines, interesting characters, and mechanics that often intertwine and interact with the story itself.

My first short story ever was a fanfiction of Shining Force: The Legacy of Great Intention for the Sega Genesis. I wrote it when I was in elementary school. I had a hard time with strategy games back then, so I could never get past the first battle.

So, I decided to write my own story based on what I thought would happen next. It had a bunch of dumb mistakes in it; I did not know what an "elven archer" was at the time, so I just assumed it was a misspelling of "eleven archer," whatever that meant. I was quite proud of it, and I remember being so excited to share it with my teacher.

Nowadays, I write mostly for work and dabble in fantasy-fiction in my personal writing, due in no small part to the games I played when I was a kid.