What was the thing that inspired you to write.

[owotrucked]

To justify drawing boobah

 

[tiaf]

Because I sucked at drawing my story.
I equally sucked at writing at my first attempt. It was in my early teen years and I, as someone who never picked up a book except for school essays, seriously thought I could write a story. Of course, I cringed hard after I wrote merely one page. My journey as an author ended after two days of trying.

Or so I thought.

Some years later, I moved from manga to webtoons and lastly got into webnovels. I was already dabbing into webtoon and manga drawing but it was too exhausting, but novels can be written everywhere, anytime with just a phone! So I thought: why not try to write? The trigger was a book that got me really furious.

 

[cheriechechan]

I started writing out of people's mockery that I cannot properly draw, insults from being me, underestimation from those toxic positivity evident in my country, and starvation too.

Might sound too serious but I used these things to motivate myself to update on those shitty stories without a fail.

 

[CubicleHermit]

I was making up stories as a kid, perhaps partially inspired by playing D&D, long before it occurred to me to write them down. I made the jump from that to writing them down as an actual for-fun thing when I was like 12 or so. Been an on-and-off hobby ever since. Been trying to turn it into a more regular hobby lately after ... uh, never mind how many years, am old :D

 

[BearlyAlive]

Writing was the only thing I was good at during my childhood. If I wasn't playing games for their story I was daydreaming and thinking out my own ones. But nowadys I seem to be more of an editing & translating guy as I somehow procastrinate all of my writing but never do that for my TLs or editing jobs (because I get paid for them, otherwise I'd totally do the same)

 

[Sabruness]

i always like reading and i guess it kinda morphed into giving it a shot at writing something that i'd like to read.

 

[EternalSunset0]

It's always been a social thing to me. I am terrible at socializing (a bit less when regarding my weeb interests but still), so I used writing and "hey can you check this out?" pitches to my weeb friends to initiate conversations and have something to talk about. It's also a self-esteem thing because writing makes me feel I'm useful for something/worth something or that I'm productive.

Then I decided I wanted to do it online to strangers.

Then I decided it's also a way for me to safely indulge myself in my favorite character types/tropes/fetishes/whatnot without suddenly inserting them in a conversation awkwardly and play god for a select few characters. Plus, gets my mind imagining cool sequences or OP/ED videos with my favorite anisongs.

Also inspires me to pick up drawing because I want to at least pretend I have an actual published LN with all those insert art/gallery shots/posters that I make

 

[Mellohwa]

Mhm...people say that I have a talent for drawing, and I believe I do have the talent. And drawing is one of my hobbies including reading, at first, I only read manhwa and manga, and I want to make it myself. Thus, I draw a webtoon and bam! It's freaking hard, both the story and character. And of course, I gave up, cause I realized that making a story and character of the story while drawing it, is tough.

Then, somewhere in the middle, I started to read novels, both online and offline. After a long journey of being an avid reader, I stumbled upon a desire to write. I want to make a story first before I draw a webtoon, and first, I want to write fanfic cause I don't need any worldbuilding and to increase my vocabulary and exercise writing. As the first time, I want to focus on exercise writing, and I pretty much don't have any written plans for my fanfic.

Thus, the first webnovel I made. Honestly, I don't really expect any readers, but then many actually read it. Even though it's only in the hundreds, it still makes me happy. (╥﹏╥)

Edit: even though I don't expect anything, I still remember me feeling nervous to actually post it on SH

 

[2021]

In short we wanted to write something, we were bored, thought we could do a story better than someone else(who didn’t write it right), or therapy, something random.

Mine is a fusion of those, less so then others

 

[MyukiMruieast]

I just wanted to start a short movie so I wrote. Then, when my parents won't give me money to buy books from the bookseller, I wrote again. Then, boredom struck me and I encountered comics, I wrote again. Then, I accidentally saw this site and now I wrote once again and there's more to it.

Deep down: I still can na

 

[BlackKnightX]

By that I don't mean what inspired you to write your story, but rather what inspired you to write in general. It could either be as a hobby or something but usually there's still some sort of inspiration there to push you forward and put your work out there.

Like, for me, I got inspired to become a great author because of trashy isekais. I've been writing books since I was a kid, but that passion never really left me. Then I watched Wise Man's Grandchild and it was so bad I got motivated to write an actually good isekai. Well, I still plan on writing it, but after looking at my first draft of it, I realized I need to practice first which is why I'm here in the first place. This is my training arc before I face the arc villain, the publishing company. Or I could self publish, then the final boss will change to the reader's opinions, the worst villain of them all. My fragile ego can't handle anything below a four star rating.

So what got y'all into writing.

It started by reading, of course. I read a lot of novels, and then one day I suddenly felt the urge to write. It’s like: I can write something like this as well!

Though, mostly it‘s because I can’t find the novel that I 100% like, so that’s why I decided to write one myself. You could say that’s it’s to satisfy and entertain myself.

 

[SerikoLee]

I grew sick of the same trope where the mc has a harem but never married one female and some media has the same old stereotype main character.
So I drew a prototype story but never uploaded the story.
After sharing what I am working on, an author on a Vtuber server told me to just do it so by the next day.
I joined Scribblehub and started writing on the net.

 

[Deleted member 54065]

I love writing stories ever since I was a kid, combined with a passion for illustrating. When I was in fifth grade, I discovered I can draw anime figures, so I set to be a mangaka/comic artist. So I drew and trained myself like a madman from high school to college.

However, when I had the chance to work on my own manga, I found that it is difficult to make them alone. I'm the one in-charge of planning the story, making drawing boards, layout, pencils, drawing the background, actual inking, scanning and putting the digital screentones.

A chapter that can be read in less than 15-minutes took eight months to finish. So I said to myself, unless I hire an assistant I won't finish anything. That's when I switched to writing novels, since novels mostly require only the cover to create. However, because I'm doing OELNs, I also included doing in-chapter illustrations as well (four drawings per volume), and a back cover.

By the way, my actual first story took a decade to finish one volume (DECK). This is due to the usual author's habit of endless edits. The one in my signature is my second, and the first one to be published, way back in July 2019. ?

 

[SilvCrimBlac]

I was 8 years old in 3rd grade, and my teacher suddenly decided to come up with a new class assignment. It was in the latter half of the school year, and normally, she wasn't supposed to switch the curriculum up like she did but in hindsight, I'm grateful to her for it even though she has no idea that she is almost entirely responsible for me writing today.

Anyway, the switch up in curriculum was, she passed out these sheets of paper and told us to write a story. Could be about anything at all, just to write something. So I did. My first story was about an alien crashing through the class window and me fighting it because why not right? That was the beginning for me. I've started, stopped, started again, and stopped and started again, but regardless the length of time I stop, I always come back to it.

Writing is part of my soul now, regardless of what I do or don't do with it. Or if nothing else, story-telling is. Something clicked with 8-year old me that day, and it's been a lengthy, and at times, a stormy love affair ever since. But it's still ongoing, after 20 years. Thank you though, Mrs. Koket.

Writing and Boxing, are quite literally my life. 19 years for one, and 20 for the other. Can't imagine a world where I couldn't do both

 

[Maldon]

I just thought it would be fun, and it was fun.

 

[NotaNuffian]

Never had any passion to write. Started two years ago as I wrote the funky porn "inspired" by that one scene in Asanagi's Victim Girl's 7. The three sites I go didn't really scratch my itch.

my mood was

And it got a couple of deviants kudos-ing. I kind of feel bad if any of them expect more cuz I am a lazy fuck after that oneshot.

 

[Plantorsomething]

By that I don't mean what inspired you to write your story, but rather what inspired you to write in general. It could either be as a hobby or something but usually there's still some sort of inspiration there to push you forward and put your work out there.

Like, for me, I got inspired to become a great author because of trashy isekais. I've been writing books since I was a kid, but that passion never really left me. Then I watched Wise Man's Grandchild and it was so bad I got motivated to write an actually good isekai. Well, I still plan on writing it, but after looking at my first draft of it, I realized I need to practice first which is why I'm here in the first place. This is my training arc before I face the arc villain, the publishing company. Or I could self publish, then the final boss will change to the reader's opinions, the worst villain of them all. My fragile ego can't handle anything below a four star rating.

So what got y'all into writing.

Internally, had been the only way for me to feel safe actually feeling things for a long time, so I naturally thought about creating fiction myself. Exernally, Undertale also happened. A lot of Undertale.

 

[WeissBlatt]

Japan wasn't producing enough stories that pandered to me.

 

[Southdog]

Couldn't find any stories I liked. Started writing the ones I liked. Simple as.

 

[2021]

Couldn't find any stories I liked. Started writing the ones I liked. Simple as.

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