At what age did you start writing and

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Last september. I've finished the book but it needs editing. I don't think anyone will ever read it, and right now I've started my second book which I'm planning to turn into a musical.

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I started writing when I was twelve. I had nothing to do and I wanted to entertain myself. I picked up a pen and a paper, drew something, and it ended up in a story. I never finished my first work. It was a cliched fantasy, a never-ending adventure that can never end and wouldn't even if it could. From then on, writing was next to breathing.
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Let's see...the first thing I wrote was in third grade, I think. It was about me and three friends, of which one was female. Me and my friends were obseesed with Dungeons & Dragons (still are), and Kali had to stay with us for the holidays. She was about to burn our stuff when an angel came and gave her a lecture on morals and consideration, so she gave them back.




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I started writing actual stories when I was in 1st grade. I was fortunate enough to have teachers who let students write when I was younger. The first story I wrote was called "The Giant Cat". The name is self explanatory (well, almost, but I'm not going any further into it than that). I still have the original copy of it, which is written atrociously in a composition notebook :? . I also have an illustrated final draft, which my parents have probably buried at the bottom of a box full of other old stuff. I've written on and off in my free time ever since then, but I've yet to write anything longer than 100 pages.




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Well, I started writting when I was in second grade. I never finished the story, but I got really close. My book was called The Night and it was about a crazy drunken mother that got in a car crash and almost killed her daughter. Yeah, I'm not really sure how I got that idea, but I got to read it in front of my class and everyone liked it.
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I think I wrote my first story in second or third grade. I was about a cat who got lost, and it was in this itty-bitty little book that I made myself. hehe. I seriously started writing in 7th grade. I got my idea from a chase scene on a cop show (I think it was Law and Order. >.>) The story just came together in my head that night and I started writing the next day, and haven't stopped since.
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I wrote 20 odd pages about anthropomorphic crayfish in 2nd grade and some of the summer. That was my first real writing experience.




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I started writing when I was...I think eight? I had wrote "book", (Well, I thought it was a whole book at the time, it was about 50 pages. XD) And a few short stories. XP
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Ah, the good old days. I started writing before I could read. I loved the way letters looked strung together so I would write nonsense but put the letters together in a pleasing way.

When I could actually write--around eight--I wrote morbid, freakish, disgusting tales of murder. Sometimes they were funny. But for the most part I would not even deign to repeat them here. They were simply nasty. Until I was fifteen I wrote dark, depressing, idiocies of slightly off-key teenage romance.

Now, I have fantastically crazy, ridiculously unbelievable, futilely mocking tales of children who never grow up. You should read them.
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I remember that the first story I ever wrote was in like first grade, on that paper that's split in half. The bottom has lines for writing and the top has space for pictures. I don't think I ever titled it, but the story went on about a puppy dog who had to escape an evil which and find the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. ha, I was a crazy little kid.
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I guess I was a late bloomer. I started writing last year when I was fourteen. My English teacher was really great and he just made the class so creative. I wrote a few poems in the beginning of the year which he read and he encouraged me to continue with, but then he assigned us to write a fictional story about someone else in the class. Mine turned into a 22 page As I Lay Dying kind of story from the point of view of a lot of different characters. It was about the girl that I interviewed, but in the story, my best friend though that she was an alien robot spy. It was really funny, especially because everyone knew the people I was talking about. Since then, I really gained my confidence and I've kept writing.
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writing comes naturally, as we learn to speak we learn to write letters and form sentences. BUT im sure you didnt mean writing in the academic term lol, so yeh seriously, i started writing about one year ago. My language teacher inspired me, when she told me my story was very well written and that I should become a writer (well one can only hope and pray, right?)

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I remember that the first story I ever wrote was in like first grade, on that paper that's split in half. The bottom has lines for writing and the top has space for pictures. I don't think I ever titled it, but the story went on about a puppy dog who had to escape an evil which and find the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. ha, I was a crazy little kid.


Sounds a bit like me!

The first story I ever wrote was back in reception when I was maybe five or six. My mom has it in a drawer somewhere and we found it the other week. It was hardly legible, but from what I gathered, it was about a chicken that didn't listen to anyone, and was eaten by a bear, and then the bear helped everyone plant flowers.

Anyways, I actually started writing, as in serisouly, when I was around eleven or twelve. So yep, that's me...
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I first wrote a story when I was in 3rd Grade. It was a story in the first-person perspective about me becoming a vampire and going through space and time and just endless adventures. I wrote it from 3rd Grade all the way through 4th Grade, and it was probably a hundred or so pages (I never counted). Looking back at it now, I cannot read it. My handwriting was chicken-scratch and my grammar sucked. I am about to start my first novel (hopefully), it's just a matter of making a good prologue.




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I wrote my first story when I was about nine and I remember it being something like the Power Rangers. I think it was about a group of kids that get trapped in some sort of new world that they can't get out of. I can't remember the exact details. In short, clichés, clichés and CLICHÉS! It was truly awful. I cringe just thinking about.

That was really when I first started writing but I think I took it more 'seriously' when I was thirteen/fourteen. It's funny: that's around the same time I discovered writer's block! :wink:
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