Question: When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer?
This question is a rather simple one. When did you first realize that you wanted to take up writing? For me, I’ve been writing as long I can remember. Since kindergarten, at least. My father works in a furniture factory, and used to come home with these sheets of paper stapled together that was supposed to serve as a notepad. I used to take these notepads and write stories in them (along with drawing my own terrible kiddie illustrations, orz.) The only thing I can remember writing back then in detail was a story about a puppy that ran away from home. Then it took off from there.
So, when did you first realize that you wanted to write? Feel free to share your story!
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sophiaangelie reblogged this from fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment
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lutangnaisip answered:
When I read a children story while I was still a child.=, maybe about 12 years old.
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yume-dango answered:
I remember creating stories since I was at least 5. I read profusely, and at age 6 my work was presented in class. That started everything…
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vampiretuesday answered:
I read a book about someone wanting to write at age 5, and started writing and I loved it too much to stop
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thesherlockedshire answered:
Ten years ago, when I was 8 :)
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icecheetah answered:
I first wanted to be one around.. seven? I think about the time I figured out how to read.
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thedementress answered:
After reading Harry Potter, a friend introduced me to its fanfiction. Eventually I tried my hand at writing one. And that was the start. :)
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ihaveasandwich answered:
I knew I wanted to be writer as soon as I learned how to write.
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princess-piglet answered:
I probably wanted to be one when I was younger but last year I thought I’d try it in a more serious sense after reading Charlie Higson’s book
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intermaterium answered:
when my teacher gave me an A for a piece i did for coarse work
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thatnamelesssuperhero answered:
I’d been writing for several years prior, but the passion came to me during my English 10 class when I discovered “Fuck. I’m good at this.”
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horacia answered:
I was five or six, and I saw the movie Harriet the Spy.
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thegirlwhogotlostonthewayhere answered:
i first realized my passion writing when i was 13 and i was reading the very first fanfiction online.
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ardenrye answered:
I didn’t want to write til 2 years of creative writing class in high school. From a young age I convinced myself I didn’t have the patience.
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double-deathkurloz answered:
Around 5th grade when my English teacher told me it wouldn’t be worth the pay to be a teacher so somehow I jumped to wanting to write.
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gurglegurgle-went-the-floor answered:
I started wanting to write when i was little, i’d write about my sisters and the odd part is i don’t have any sisters only a brother .funny.
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deaths-leftovers answered:
Last year when I realised it was something I loved, was good at, and could make money off of.
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impressive-novelist reblogged this from fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment and added:
I tried to write stories when I was younger, but soon gave up because they were really bad. But I still read a lot, and...
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territhebear reblogged this from fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment and added:
In November.I’ve always wanted to shares stories,but I only started writing them down because my English teacher said I...
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a-little-harmed-shinra answered:
I started around middle school, when I was introduced to poetry. Halfway through high school, I found writing fiction a much better choice.
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simulatedfloridiansnow answered:
I read a really bad YA novel and I rewrote the ending in third grade. Then my teacher caught me and told me I wrote well. That’s when I knew.
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whereisthelifewehavelost answered:
SINCE KINDERGARTEN, YES!
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bytherivergirl answered:
I’ve wanted to be a writer since i was 5 or 6 years old. When I was 7, my dad bought me a typewriter and I wrote story after story.
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belonely answered:
When I was 5/6, my friend had a sticker book I’d look through and make up stories for and then later I realized, oh that’s called *writing*.
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missmanta answered:
I dunno… when I first decided to write I didn’t much care about what I did with my life, I just felt like writing and it never stopped.
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bespectaclednerd answered:
I realized it when I wrote a short story in fourth grade. It was supposed to be a page. I handed in fifteen. Handwritten. It was crap, but…
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igenerallylikewords answered:
I’ve been writing forever too. the first story i remember was about a dragon, and I’m STILL writing about dragons! =)
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randomanduninspired answered:
I was always making up stories when I was little, never felt like actually writing them down until I was in High School
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fishsticksandpudding answered:
I’ve been trying to write full-length novels ever since I was about 5. Rarely got past one notebook page but my answer is My Entire Life.
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sophiaangelie answered:
I realized that my love for sleeping was fueled by my love for dreaming!
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birdwithapeopleface answered:
I always liked to write but I didn’t know it was what I wanted to do with my life until 22ish. Everyone around me suspected long before that.
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grungeonmaster answered:
My mom found an old project I did in kindergarten and under what I wanted to be when I grew up i wrote “riter” SO CLOSE
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dreamscuddlesandpuddles answered:
When I was in kindergarten I wrote these comics about a tornado based superhero.
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rebekahloves answered:
after i finished writing my first novel. i realized i wanted to do it again. i was 27 years old.
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atalli answered:
At first, I was interested in art and making comics. But after I sucked in drawing, I really enjoyed writing stories and started from there.
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wardnpendragn answered:
i didn’t get into writing until I was about 16. It was more of a branch of my interest in fanart and fanfiction. (word cap too small for more
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owakura answered:
Sixth grade, when faced with a poetry exercise in English class. I suddenly realized I wanted to write for a living.
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kurookami reblogged this from fuckyeahcharacterdevelopment and added:
In 11th grade in high school, I had the privilege of taking an AP Lit and Comp course with a teacher who kicked my style...
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theking-and-lionheart answered:
When I read Harry Potter. I wanted to write something that would change someone’s life, like J K Rowling’s writing did for me.
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shannahmcgill answered:
When I was in sixth grade and I figured I could make money from it — I never did! But it grew on me because I had so many ideas.
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wordblock answered:
When I was 11. I created a my first character, but I never actually used her in anything. XD I just knew I really wanted to.
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the-sixteenth-subject answered:
I always only wrote down these dumb stories about cats that ruled like, everything but there were much more complex stories in my brain.
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thedyketheywarnyouabout answered:
In m school we had to write little books and one of my teachers changed mine completely. Each word I write now is done so out of revenge. ;)
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