A question for any writers: Did the written word call you from an early age?

Question

I was just wondering if writing, for you, has been in your blood for a long time or whether it's a recent interest.

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Answer 1

I wasn't led to writing so much as story-telling. Writing just ended up as the mode I was most comfortable in.

Answer 2

I think for most people, if they have a life calling - it struck young.

I'd taught myself to read at a very young age, about two, and it was as soon as I could grip the pencil properly later that year that I began authoring epic novels like: "i like kats. kats r fuze' (translation: I like Cats. Cats are fuzzy.), but I didn't really start writing until I was about seven and we got our first computer.

I adored how things looked on the computer screen - so much more professional then my handwriting! I think that pushed me to write a lot, because I could really see them being published when they were in the same fonts that my books used! So I would sit there and type loads and loads, squinting at the screen. To this day I sometimes log onto one of our ancient computers at home - running Windows 95! - and read some of the old stories I wrote on there, about girls falling into magical universes and becoming super heroes and stuff. They weren't very good, but they do make me laugh - I think they improved my typing skills more than anything.

It's funny, I want to be an animator - but I'll never stop writing or attempting to get things published.

Answer 3

Definitely. I still remember putting together stories on an old typewriter that wasn't even electric when I was about six years old. For the benefit of those too young to remember the way-before days, It had an actual ink ribbon you'd have to change and install by hand and keys you'd have to press half an inch down, and these little metal hammers that would come up and strike the page.
In grade six, one of my teachers heard I had written a 25 page fantasy story. She wanted to encourage me and I ended reading it in front of the class. Other things I'd read over the intercom.
Today, I'm busy putting my first real novel together. It's undergoing fourth re-writing.

Answer 4

Daydreaming led to writing when I was quite young. My family was isolated in several different environments (on a farm, being civilians in officers' quarters, being Americans in a Japanese neighborhood) so we learned to play together. I was the one that invented games for the rest and the reader and the daydreamer. It naturally led to writing.

My younger brothers still thought until recently that the leprechauns we chased over the countryside were really out there.

Answer 5

Yes, it did. I started reading when I was three and have read everything I could get my hands on since then. I started writing a "newspaper" for my neighbors when I was 7. I helped my mom with her sci-fi manuscript from the time I was about 9. (She is scared to try to publish it.....). I am in the middle of writing my second novel right now. I wouldn't do anything but write! :)

Answer 6

For me I wrote my first "book" at age 9. After that I was hooked. My desire grew as I started entering contests, or writing poetry for family and friends, it inspired me to study and know more because I realized that the more I experienced the richer and more rewarding my fiction became. But in short it was "in my blood" a very long time indeed

Answer 7

Yes. I am a poet&translator now. I started reading at about the age of 4 (partly because of my physical disability which left me little choice in matters of things to do) and always enjoyed reading. I started writing at the age of 12.

Answer 8

I started writing in 2nd or 3rd grade- that was when I read a lot and I could still spell. I still write now, and I'm in 7th grade. But I probably wouldn't be writing without the support from my friend.

Answer 9

Always in my blood in that I always loved reading, was interested in words and they way they sounded and never considered writing an essay to be homework. But, it took a long time for me to 'come out'.

Answer 10

I have been writing since the age of six.