At what age did you start writing and

I wrote my first story when i was seven years old about a costume party on halloween, there were some real monsters there, but no one knew it except for the main character. It didnt have an end, I sorta just stopped writing and wrote 'the end' at the bottom of the page. That's when i decided that I was going to be a writer, then I second-guessed that and between then and the time I turned twelve, I came up with many different dreams (lawyer, astronaut, rockette, private detective, forensics investigator and many other random proffesions). Now, I know I'm a writer.

i believe my first story was written when i was age 14, and it was a load of [word i'm probably not allowed to say on YWS].

my second story was far better--but i never edited it. at all.

i started and later abandoned three other stories. i should have known right from the start they were all bad ideas, but i guess it just takes a long time to sink into my thick skull.

now i am working on something new, and hopefully novel-length. i am determined to finish this, no matter how bad of an idea it seems later, no matter how nasty and grueling it gets, no matter how many nights i have to spend without sleep, no matter how many meals i miss, no matter how many lectures i ignore, no matter how many...huh? you get the idea, already? okay, yeah, you probably do.

there's two ways to look at my life. 1) I don't have one. 2) Writing IS my life.

grim? perhaps. worth living through? probably not. will i give it a shot? definitely.

sorry if i gave you my life story instead of just answering the question.

I seriously don't think I can remember... I only have a vague recollection of scribbling stuff down in the back of my old school books when I was about eight. Whether I actually finished any of those stories is another matter...

I wrote my first novel when I was thirteen though. It took me three months of solid writing, involved some things which didn't make an ounce of sense, was terribly clichéd and generally really, really bad.

I think I wrote my first story when I was 5. It was about a badger, a frog and some oranges. I think i still have it.
I wrote my first novel for 5 months when I was 11 but never finished the end.

No clue. My family and I don't save papers. I know that my 5th grade teacher made to show several pages of a story and a lot of pages read each week, though. (I loved that teacher. I also always had the most pages - people hated me. I had a thick folder for my writing, and would bring about ten books on the check-in day.)

I joined this site under a year ago, and probably didn't get serious about writing until...five months ago? Not long, that's for sure.

~JFW1415

God, I have no idea. Since I was born? I always kind of made up stories in my mind. I learned to read at a very young age, but before that I always would pretend to read books and make up the words as I went along. I remember reading The Little Mermaid once and just going off of the movie.

The first story that I can REMEMBER was called My Own Fox and it was at this time when I really wanted to run away. I'm not exactly sure why I did, but whatever. It was about this girl who found an orphaned fox cub in the forest and ran away from home because her father wouldn't let her keep it.

I always made up stories to play pretend games with my cousins and sister, but the first time I ever put one of those on paper was.....I think I was eight, and it was about a girl whose mom had died and her dad got married again, and the fiance had two daughters around her age, and they didn't quite get along. I KNOW, so many cliches and disgusting over-use of 'like, then, and very' but I was young people! lol.
I actually filled up a whole 3 subject notebook, but then I lost it, and the story died.
Oh well. *tries to feel grief for the horrible story, but fails*

Writing ? uhm... when i learned to write XD
mainly i just invented stories and spent night after night telling my stuffed toys the stories yays to childhood!

isnt is awesome when you're little ??

my first actual story was when I was... 10 ? it was about elves but it is seriously crap, i must say. i was only just learning english then so it kind of lacks.... everything haha
oh well
i learned
Xxx Do

I did my first real story in first grade, I still have it. It's called Me, my Best Friend, the Stray Dog, and the Two-Headed Cobra. It was 16 half-pages long with huge spaces. It made some sense, but in the middle there was this kind of huge gap. It's weird though, I was a little first grade girl, and the first story I wrote had to do with death and disappearances. That might explain why I'm only good at writing horror now. lolz.

Wow...

This is the my first proper story, which I write at the moment. However, when I was in year... 3 I think, I wrote about 1000 words to a more or less LotR rip off, I found it the other day, and I was in fits.

-Mark

I started writin at age nine, when I was in 4th grade. I was obsessed with Yu Yu Hakusho at the time (now I could care less about anime, no offense anime fans ) and I wanted to do everything I could that would relate to it. So I began to write Yu Yu Hakusho fan fiction. My first story was about... Hiei, and his sister Yukina. And apparently their deceased mother had given Hiei and flute, and Yukina, not knowing he was her brother at the time, led herself to believe he stole one of her family heirlooms. I finished it after twelve chapters, but the entire story itself was probably only around maybe 10 pages long, with spaces between the paragraphs. It sucks like hell, it really does.

I started writing back in second grade in my free time. The first story I wrote was a really bad four and a half page retelling of Romeo and Juliet. In fifth grade I had a book I absolutely hated published (one of those you pay to have it published things). It was about a girl that went back in time. Now at fifteen and a freshman I'm trying to get better... While I'm getting semi better I'd like to be even better....wow I just used the word better too many times....

I think I started writting at 2nd grade.

My first story that I remember was about a love that couldn't be and the two lovebirds anded up together. That I wrote last summer at Girl Scouts camp.

My second story was a long vampire story that I will proble never ever put any were but in my room. It's probable my longest story yet.

I probably really started writing in 4th grade. Before that, I was just writing for school, though I wrote one very short story in third grade). In fifth grade I actually started my first long story (now stabookie). I stopped writing it in the middle of 6th grade because I started Family Tree with my friend. (almost finished!)

I started writing in second grade. And my writing was complete [bleep]. Oh, man...I'm picking up on my Creative Writing teacher's habits. She replaces swear words with [bleep] all the time. Anyways after I saw my sister have a go, I thought, "I can write better than that!"

My first story was about 43 pages single-spaced, 14-pt Times New Roman. It took a year to finish it and it was SO SO cliche! It was about wizards living in modern times. I included elements from Charlie's Angels, Goosebumps and countless other books. It was romance, adventure, fantasy. I'm blushing as I write this. But, hey! I finished it! And deleted it as soon as I typed "The End"