Confessions of a Fantasy Writer…

I wrote my first short story when I was in the third grade, and, interestingly enough, it was of the fantasy/horror genre.  Even to this day–and it has been some years–I can remember exactly both what the story was about and what the process of writing it was like.

The story was about a young girl who hears a legend at school.  In the legend, a vampire family returns every year on Halloween to their ancient vampire home to feast on the inhabitants that lived there.  In the beginning, the...