Theodore Ashford has been writing since 2006, though he was unwilling to share his work during those first years. (Probably rightly so.) He also participates in the annual event known as National Novel Writing Month, and is one of the organizers for the Portland area. In the summer of 2014, he gave a talk at TEDxYouth@Portland on the subject Finding Yourself. Despite that, he is by no means an expert on the subject, and is discovering something new about himself every day.