"Mr. Allen played the guitar and said he had published articles and had a friend who was eaten by an alligator and immediately he was my hero. I want to be published I told him." I started writing when I was five. To be more specific, I started copying my childrens books--now referred to as “plagiarism”--onto folded sheets of construction paper and calling them books. My first masterpiece was this inspirational, heart-wrenching tale of a young, scared animal separated forever