At what age did you start writing and

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Hmm, that's really hard to answer. I started talking in sentences when I was one, and my grandparents (they're filipino) talk non-stop about how when I last went to the philippines (when I was 3) I would always sing "what are little girls made of" and asked my Tita how she kept pulling money out of her "magic bag".

I started reading when I was *asks mom what age real quick* one? What? Wait, no, my mom would start reading to me when I was one (she never used baby language) and I memorized the whole story (Dr. Suess and such) to a point that I could get to book and read it upside down.

I've been writing words ever since someone taught me how to write words. I started writing stories when I was... In kindergarden. You know: cats and dogs, written in crayon.

The last little book story thing I can remember was in 5th grade and it was a story about my friends, I think. I remember I used to make up fantasy games and stories with my sister and my cousin, using dolls, toys, and plastic fruit as props. I remember one time I even made a story where a bear rescued princess Dora and used the bow (bow and arrow) as a hat/walking cane. That was with my cousins.

I started writing poetry in middle school, when I was a lame, sad, little kid who needed to get her thoughts and feeling down.

I started writing crazy, hilarious adventure stories about my weird (and also my friends, lol) classmates when I was in 8th grade through 9th grade, and it will probably continue.

My first novel began last fall/winter.
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I wrote my first story when I was four - but I really just dictated it to my mom and she wrote it down. I actually wrote something by myself about third or fourth grade when we were started to learn how to write narratives, and I got really into it then. In fourth grade, I had a series of handmade books that were basically ripoffs of The Powerpuff Girls episodes.

I still have them.

They're awful. xD




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I probably wrote my first when I was about seven. "The Robin and the Bluebird," about a robin and a bluebird (no kidding) who married and laid an egg, which hatched into a blue robin. Then they all moved to Canada, and liked it. xD




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I started writing in 1st grade, when I had learned how, and my first story was this:

Once there was a zebra named Sarah. She had some rocks. The rocks were colorful. She liked them. The end.

I'm glad I've progressed from there, to say the least...
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I wrote my first story in preschool.... Something about a cat?

I first started becoming serious about writing novels and poetry last October.

Before that I did stuff for school and occasionally scribbled stuff down.
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I was seven and it was in school and as soon as I wrote one in school, I was hooked. The story was basically Magic Roundabout fanfiction. haha
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I first found my interest in writing in about fifth grade. I ONLY write fiction. Non-fiction bores me. I have a big imagination. I usually read a book and if I really like that book I will usually write something similiar to it. I started doing argumentative writing. It is really fun! I get to express my opinion. I've always wanted to write a biography about myself but, I don't think I have lived long enough to write one. A lot of things have changed my life dramatically but, I don't think there's enough. :)

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Yes, I know that's random but I love manga and I've been trying to write one with the pictures and everything...but it hasn't gone so well. I stink at drawing.
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I first became interested in writing when I was about 5, but I didn't actually start anything until first grade (6 or 7), when I started this fictional story about how my teacher hit her head one night and showed up at school the next day crazy... then she hit her head every night after that, and every time she did, she'd alternate between crazy and normal... I had a wild imagination even back then.

But the most interesting early work that stands out in my mind was a 10-page (On MS Word) novel about a school for flying... mostly ripped off of Harry Potter. I wrote 2 of the planned series of 9...
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My first story was about a rabbit at chrismas or so I am told. I wrote it in elementry school some time and my mom sent it to Grandma so whenever I talk about me writing she says: "Oh I remember..." you can imagine the rest. Actually I do remember my Grandma sending her comment on it although I do not know what it contained but I can't remember the story.

My frist real story I wrote in 5-6th grade I think. I am not shure though. It is about a mermaid princess who falls in love with a merman duke's son. Then she gets stuck on land and can't go back for a year. She meets this really nice human guy but she still loves the duke's son. She returns - he betraied her - she realizes she loves the human guy - they marry.
Actuall I still think I had a very nice plot. It just really seems like something a child wrote. But I might give it a rewrite sometime. But I certainly was proud when I was finished. It was 54 handwritten pages.
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I think I was 6 when I wrote my first story it was called "The Lost Kittens." Basically a witch stole these kittens from a brother and sister and they had to get them back. Gripping stuff... It was part of a series called "Annie & Andy's Adventures" Haha.
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I feel so late. I wrote my first story (outside of a school assignment) when I was eleven, after I started to have an actual interest in literature and reading.
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I wrote my first when I was in second grade. It was a rewrite of the Pirates of the Carribean. XD
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I think I've been writing ever since I could write! In preschool, maybe, I wrote these cute little stories about dogs that fell in love and what my dad and I grew in our vegetable garden. I'm gonna go look for them right now!




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My first proper story was in year 2, it was called the Spoon Killers of Craw Court. Weird or what
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I've always written down crazy stuff in notebooks and started stories that never got going, but I started seriously writing at about 11 or 12. I think I was 12 when I finished my first, utterly dreadful, but fasinating to read now novel



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