When did you start writing?

[AliceMoonvale]

2003, technically.
I was a wee cringe kiddo on IIRC chatrooms and forums.

 

[OtherSlater]

Sophomore year of HS, so like 2018 ish? My English teacher saw I didn't try on an assignment and failed me, pushing me to care. Then encouraged me to pursue creative writing. One degree later, here I am.

 

[TinaMigarlo]

College. I always did read a *ton*, and I wanted to see if I could write. I thought I could, but then everyone does. I was friends with a girl that was the student editor of the lit-rag at my university. You know, not the university newspaper, the other thing they leave piles of copies areound. It was formatted like a small newspaper that was read like a book. They'd have original stories of various genres, and these "essays". (the essays were yawn-fests.)

I submitted mine to the girl I mentioned, the student editor., I was expecting to be told to stop doing this, lol. Cause I was a STEM-lord, not a creative writing major. LOL. She said it was good, better than a lot of the stuff they normally get. (something like 17 page horror story) No, I didn't get published. Professors and their yawn-inducing "essays" must be mandatory. Elaine (said student editor) magically approved her OWN huge essay.

I was however, told I definitely should write, and I took that as an omen. We didn't call it fan fic back then, I tried to write the final ending in a series the author had died. People would read a chapter, and say it reads "like a book". But I made every mistake any newb writer could make, and there were no real resources back then. Not like today on the internet.

I started and stopped trying to write a novel several times over more years than I am willing to admit to. Each time getting closer. I'd learn "thing X" and apply it next effort. Couple several years ago, the bug bit again and I started doing it and haven't quit since.

 

[Worthy39]

I think I wrote a screenplay when I was 12, but it was awful, so I scrapped the whole thing when I went back through and read it.

 

[Fox-Trot-9]

I started writing around 2009 and then sharing my stuff in 2010. Been writing and sharing my work since then.

 

[Callarel_04]

Around when I was 18 or 19, so 14 years ago. It was a Harry Potter x Fate crossover. Then I wrote fanfic for years after that.

I blame gabriel blessing's 'In Flight' for pulling me down that rabbit hole. That was my first ever fanfiction, and also the reason I enjoy crossover more than regular fanfic.

 

[rileykifer]

I didn't start seriously writing until my early-mid twenties, and I finished my first novel in 2016. But I've technically been writing since I was a kid.

 

[thegingernut]

I started writing things for fun when I was in 4ᵗʰ grade. None of it survived thankfully and I stopped at some point but… I believe that was the beginning of my writing career. The very first time I wrote something that nobody made me. And then I went into a completely unrelated field lol

 

[Eldoria]

As the title suggests: when did you start writing?

I started writing since I was 6 years old. I write in Latin alphabetically. It took me almost 2 years to learn how to write simple fictional narratives... Lina went with her mother to the market. They bought kitchen supplies for dinner.

 

[CinnaSloth]

2nd grade.
I wrote a fanfic for an assignment that was supposed to be an imaginative story. My teacher enjoyed it so much, he sent it in to the writers of the series, and it was turned into a small unofficial/ official side story (no I won't elaborate). It was something I enjoyed then, and it's something I enjoy now.

I picked up drawing in middle school to create my own comics. Then focusing on animations to tell stories during highschool. In college I did 3D work to tell stories. But after all that, when I couldn't draw anymore because health reasons, and lost access to certain programs due to cpu/ram requirements that my laptop alone is unable to handle, I fell back into storytelling through writing again. I guess it just came full circle.. shrug.

 

[Nevafrost]

I've been an avid reader pretty much since day one, I got the bug of wanting to tell my own stories at around 7-8 years old. I didn't start working on stuff until I was 13, second year of junior high. And Im still working with the same OCs, although they've gone through several changes and barely resemble their original counterparts

Now, that's something I can also relate to. My OCs are so much different from how they were before.

 

[ElijahRyne]

As the title suggests: when did you start writing? (I'm not asking about when you started posting your novel tho)
For me, I started writing my very first novel when I was 11, lol. But I never got to finish it.

I wrote Tarty Fart v The Giant Mutant Ice Cream Cones in 5th grade, so about 9-10 yo.

 

[Cookiez_N_Potionz]

High School

 

[ElijahRyne]

I wrote Tarty Fart v The Giant Mutant Ice Cream Cones in 5th grade, so about 9-10 yo.

Now that I think about it, it was probably my longest running series despite the fact I was that young. But I didn’t finish it and have since lost it……

 

[Anonjohn20]

I was probably 13 or 14 years old when I first tried writing.

 

[Nevafrost]

After reading all the responses, I realized that I can start writing in 2nd grade but it's never too late to start when I'm 35. I guess 6 years of useless writing didn’t go in vain lol.

 

[Daeron]

As the title suggests: when did you start writing? (I'm not asking about when you started posting your novel tho)
For me, I started writing my very first novel when I was 11, lol. But I never got to finish it.

Mine started at 2026, hahahaha
I'm usually just enjoy read novel instead writing. But, i did make comic when i was around 11 or 12.

 

[TinaMigarlo]

ok, the young kid cringe thing. I wrote a stopry in 5th grade for english class, it was the first time a teacher wanted a creeative story. I mean, looking back on it, it was positively dreadful. But I was in 5th grade. Mind you I was a 5th grader who read *paperbacks* since first grade, lol. So its this weird mix of little kid and more adult themes. I remember "Mrs Grenworth" got put into the trash compactor. Because they were sending a message to the guy who wasn't home. lol. I mean, this goes on in spy novels, you know? I just knew there had to be a death, or it wasn't a "real" story. The other little kids were complaining they couldn't write more than one or two pages. I got yelled at for turning in something like 12 or 14 pages front and back.

I'm in grade school. Spy novel. I understood the guy was a double agent, I knew what that was. I knew the lady was the other side's spy, she was his contact. I grasped he was turned because he had sex with the foreign spy lady. What I *didn't* understand? Was him kneeling at her feet in high gheels, kissing her high heels. And she kicked him in the throat and he liked it. It was a number of years before I understood what was going on there, LMAO. (thank god nothing of the sort ended up in the 5th grade creative story.)

please tell me there are more of me like this young? or I was the only weird kid.

 

[Daeron]

ok, the young kid cringe thing. I wrote a stopry in 5th grade for english class, it was the first time a teacher wanted a creeative story. I mean, looking back on it, it was positively dreadful. But I was in 5th grade. Mind you I was a 5th grader who read *paperbacks* since first grade, lol. So its this weird mix of little kid and more adult themes. I remember "Mrs Grenworth" got put into the trash compactor. Because they were sending a message to the guy who wasn't home. lol. I mean, this goes on in spy novels, you know? I just knew there had to be a death, or it wasn't a "real" story. The other little kids were complaining they couldn't write more than one or two pages. I got yelled at for turning in something like 12 or 14 pages front and back.

I'm in grade school. Spy novel. I understood the guy was a double agent, I knew what that was. I knew the lady was the other side's spy, she was his contact. I grasped he was turned because he had sex with the foreign spy lady. What I *didn't* understand? Was him kneeling at her feet in high gheels, kissing her high heels. And she kicked him in the throat and he liked it. It was a number of years before I understood what was going on there, LMAO. (thank god nothing of the sort ended up in the 5th grade creative story.)

please tell me there are more of me like this young? or I was the only weird kid.

what the fuck, HAHAHAHHAA
for me, first time i read something like that when i was 9th grade. I got that kind of novel from local librarian lady so i can "grow up"

 

[Nevafrost]

ok, the young kid cringe thing. I wrote a stopry in 5th grade for english class, it was the first time a teacher wanted a creeative story. I mean, looking back on it, it was positively dreadful. But I was in 5th grade. Mind you I was a 5th grader who read *paperbacks* since first grade, lol. So its this weird mix of little kid and more adult themes. I remember "Mrs Grenworth" got put into the trash compactor. Because they were sending a message to the guy who wasn't home. lol. I mean, this goes on in spy novels, you know? I just knew there had to be a death, or it wasn't a "real" story. The other little kids were complaining they couldn't write more than one or two pages. I got yelled at for turning in something like 12 or 14 pages front and back.

I'm in grade school. Spy novel. I understood the guy was a double agent, I knew what that was. I knew the lady was the other side's spy, she was his contact. I grasped he was turned because he had sex with the foreign spy lady. What I *didn't* understand? Was him kneeling at her feet in high gheels, kissing her high heels. And she kicked him in the throat and he liked it. It was a number of years before I understood what was going on there, LMAO. (thank god nothing of the sort ended up in the 5th grade creative story.)

please tell me there are more of me like this young? or I was the only weird kid.

The "reading but not understanding" is a part of everyone's childhood (or it's just me and you lol)