It may have been a form of unconscious escape for me at the time.
I suppose in a way, the seeds of Changeling were a form of wish-fulfillment, as here was someone in a similar situation, living a very dull and normal life, who is suddenly whisked away to a whole new world, where things have more meaning, and where he has some form of validation and begins to build real friendships. I had a very dreary and unpleasant school experience at that age, and spent a lot of time feeling very unhappy and lonely about it all. I spent an awful lot of time inside my own head, which is probably true for a lot of writers. I didn't know a lot of like-minds at the time, and I think I could have counted my friends on one hand, with fingers to spare. (We finish high school at 16 in England, go on to college for 2-3 years separately, and then after attend university). At the time I was still a year off finishing high school.
It differed in so many ways to how the tale finally ended up, but the fundamentals were the same.
I'm not really sure what, at fifteen, set me on the path of writing a very early 'proto-changeling' story.
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