How'd you get your start?

[OwlrageousJones]

What got you started writing?

I, personally, started pretty early - I remember writing (very terrible) stories as a grade schooler, and just kept going. At one point, I delved into fanfiction, and wrote a bunch of those (still do, under this name even-), and still kept up writing original works as well, but this is probably the first time I've really put an original work out there.

I'm curious to know how everyone else started!

 

[LunaSoltaer]

Spite.

I read a book, came out of it feeling erased, invisible, and hurt. It's an extremely popular book, too, and I know people can be insular.

So instead of throwing my voice where it would just be drowned, I decided to do myself justice and write the book I would have wanted to read.

Except, well, I wasn't skilled enough, and also I found a better book to resonate it.

But I continue writing, this time from a larger spectrum of emotion.

 

[Jmoonday]

I have always loved world building, I dabbled in that a lot growing up. Making stories for my Legos or creating roleplay characters in games like Morrowind and Fallout. That kinda of bred this passion for writing, just a hobby for me but I enjoy it. It also gives me peace after a long work week!

 

[Vnator]

Spite.

I read a book, came out of it feeling erased, invisible, and hurt. It's an extremely popular book, too, and I know people can be insular.

So instead of throwing my voice where it would just be drowned, I decided to do myself justice and write the book I would have wanted to read.

Except, well, I wasn't skilled enough, and also I found a better book to resonate it.

But I continue writing, this time from a larger spectrum of emotion.

Spite, my favorite emotion! It also got me working on my latest book too!

 

[OwlrageousJones]

Spite, my favorite emotion! It also got me working on my latest book too!

Spite.

I read a book, came out of it feeling erased, invisible, and hurt. It's an extremely popular book, too, and I know people can be insular.

So instead of throwing my voice where it would just be drowned, I decided to do myself justice and write the book I would have wanted to read.

Except, well, I wasn't skilled enough, and also I found a better book to resonate it.

But I continue writing, this time from a larger spectrum of emotion.

Honestly, mood.

Part of what got me to write more seriously was wanting to read about different protagonists/characters but nobody else seemed to be doing them.

Also part of the reason for my current novel.

 

[Bobple]

I started very late. (Cause of multiple reasons I won't get into here).

But the reason I started was just after five years of reading a LOT, I wanted to write, and had lot of ideas. Spent a two years writing stories and ideas privately, and posted my first story this year.

I just have a lot of ideas, honestly too many, and I wanted to write some of them down.

 

[Sola-sama]

I remember drawing stick people having epic battles on a apiece of paper in grade school. Over the course of its epic campaign on multiple maps, I grow to like imagining functional stories on my head, but I wasn't skilled enough in communication to pour them down into writings. It was only after I read Legendary Moonlight Sculptor (Kr) that I began writing out of spite.

Naturally, they were very bad at first. When I read my early works, it was as if my younger self has a lifelong grudge to the present me, trying to murder me through sheer cringe. But I'm glad that I took that first step.

 

[Deleted member 113259]

My brother was a fanfic writer and I thought, "Why? Are you really so uncreative you need to rip off someone else's world to write a story? Just make your own." That thought led to me putting some of the characters I drew into their own little stories. Still, each idea never got more than a chapter as I wasn't really trying to make a story for an audience as much as I was just noting down what was in my head. Besides a childish comic I made when I was 10, my main story on SH is the first time I've actually tried to write a coherent story.

 

[M.G.Driver]

i saw the possible inflation of my ego if i started writing.

 

[SirDogeTheFirst]

Quarantine. I literally had nothing else to do.

 

[BearlyAlive]

I've always had my head in the clouds, fleeing reality with books or games. So the ovious next step was either acting or writing. And I hate attention, so writing it was.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

My parents wouldn't allow me to write fiction because "fantasy isn't real and has no value" as they put it. Once I moved out, I was really depressed and had no hobbies so I took up writing again. 5 years later, here I am. I'm even hoping to self-publish my first volume of the series I've been working on in December.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Money.

 

[georgelee5786]

I had the idea to write for a while, but it was the song Dreadnought by Sabaton that made me start

 

[Rhaps]

I was writing notes on human anatomy, torture devices and the link between the two. Found it fun and helps me to focus.

So I starts writing slice of life with a dark undertone.

 

[TheMonotonePuppet]

What got you started writing?

I, personally, started pretty early - I remember writing (very terrible) stories as a grade schooler, and just kept going. At one point, I delved into fanfiction, and wrote a bunch of those (still do, under this name even-), and still kept up writing original works as well, but this is probably the first time I've really put an original work out there.

I'm curious to know how everyone else started!

I started pretty early, but I found myself to be a genuinely terrible writer and started hating it after I just couldn't fix it in the way my teachers wanted to.
I picked up writing about 9 months ago, because I wanted to try my hand at writing a story I wanted to see. I simply couldn't find a character that fulfilled the itch I needed scratched, with the prose I wanted to read at the same time. In addition, I have no friends or family that I feel deep enough in relationship with to reveal my worst emotions to them; not anymore anyway. Nor can I feel like committing to deepening the relationships either.
So!
I decided to make the leap and contain my most loathsome, painful thoughts on the digital page.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

Carefully

 

[Prince_Azmiran_Myrian]

Got bored while immobilized in pain, started reading instead of the usual anime or webcomic.
Read a story that reminded me of my own story I abandoned a decade ago, so was inspired to write it down. Now am procrastinating on rewriting it.

 

[Seaspecter]

I’ve always dreamed up worlds and adventures I wanted to go on and then told my friends and family about them. So when I was telling my wife about one of them she told me to start writing so I did.

 

[Shard]

I've always done a lot of creative thinking, and running multiple worlds inside my mind since I was a kid. Also, I read so damn much... Full paperback per day for years straight. Eventually I started reading stories on the web, and ended up talking with an author who helped convince me to finally start writing. I still suck at it IMO, but people seem to like it, which is great.