I had such a difficult time in my fifth grade year of primary school because reading and writing comprehension were always lacking and it severely showed in my progress reports, homework, and finally, our state tests to move onto the next grade. I had never been held back a year and because the teacher I had in that grade, I was so close to being in summer school but I escaped it by going to another elementary school.

During that summer, I tried going to the library and picking out "chapter books" from the Children's department but nothing caught my eye and I despised how much everyone was into Harry Potter because I just stared at the book and saw it was a lot of work. At that time, I got into anime when I stayed up late at night watching InuYasha (ironically, your username) on Adult Swim. So, after that I looked for people to talk about how much I loved Sesshomaru and Rin together and Sango and Miroku as well. I found a fansite (that is actually still around and I love to remember the memories that it brought) that had a chat room and there I noticed a lot of people used asterisks to write out something they were doing or would do. I met a friend named April who was a much better writer than me (during that time when Yahoo! Messenger was the "it" instant messenger). She would roleplay anime-inspired anime characters and I, always female until there was a year that we switched up the roles.

When I started off sixth grade, we had to write our introductions for a portfolio that we were going to fill up with more essays throughout the year and I still have it and I was a damn good writer because of roleplaying. April wasn't my only partner and never once did I pick up a book to improve my writing, I just read other people's posts when I got into forums.

I had very successful high school years until graduation and had AP English and in honors too all due to my love for fantasy worlds and writing out with my best friends.

There was a point during my sophomore year that I wanted to write a novel and I did but during that time, I lost a lot of friends (drama and all that) so the characters that were modeled after them, I gave up. So, after that it was many years of having constant of plot bunnies that I can now happily write out to people and see it play out before me like a movie.

Sorry, I went off in a long tangent there but the only books I've completed in all of my lifetime were the first two Hunger Games books, the first Twilight novel of the saga, and Fahrenheit 451 for my AP English class (which I hated at the time but revisited it when I graduated and fell in love with it).

I'm barely picking up Divergent to read and although I know I can do better than to read YA fiction, it's neat because YA is so simple that its plots and little universes can be easily created into a roleplay.

Honestly, I still think those types of books that have two authors in it are just two people who roleplayed together and sent it to their publishers!