When did you get interested in writing?

I first wrote mine when I was around about seven years of age, and the teacher told us to write something. I beleive mine was about a fish in the sea.

Then, when I turned ten I wrote a story about a girl named Ruby and her dog saving the planet, that got me a B. I gave up writing for a while after that.

However, once I reached year seven, I decided to write fanfiction. I wrote that until I was in year nine, and from there I am writing some random stories! XD

Please go cheak mine out! Thanks!

I always had an active imagination even as a little kid. I also loved books, and finished reading my first novel- Pippi Longstocking, when I was 6 or 7. And then I wrote a short story when I was 7. And from then on, I knew I wanted to write.

I remember the first story I wrote in 3rd grade. It was about woman stranded on an island looking for her jewelry and she finds it after she trips over a log.

Ah, my junior days

Having imagination has always been encouraged In my family plus my mom loved to write so when I saw her doing it I thought, that is so cool! I first started to actually want to write around the age of five maybe six. My first proper story was about me waking up and being tiny but everyone else was normal size, in the end I drank some potion to make grow again!! Also another big inspiration was when I was 8 I found some writing by my dad and it was truly amazing and deep and I thought, wow I want to write like that!! Maybe I will post what he wrote!

I literally can't remember the first story I wrote I was so young. Even before I learned to write (which would have been when I was 2 1/2-ish, because if my Mum informs me correctly I could write properly before I started school) I'd make up stories and scribble nonsense down on paper as if I were actually writing them. I do remember the first poem I wrote, when I was about 6 or 7. It was about birds flying- I still have it somewhere. It was atrocious. Not that my poetry has actually improved much since then...

I wrote my first poem when I seven for a competition but I was too scared to hand it in D: Then after that I discovered a love for writing poetry and wrote loads Then people always asked me 'If you like writing poetry, you'll probably like writing stories' and I did! Eventually more so than poetry... I don't write any poetry nowadays, but I guess the poems I wrote when I was younger were more little rhymes than actual poetry xD

I wrote my first poem when I was nine, and it had four lines.

Wrote a picture book when I was 7 (which was terrible) and I have been in love with writing ever since.

Started writing from 9 onwards. I was this obsessed girl with barbies and lots of other little girly stuff. I even used to write in notebooks with pink until my mom really gave in for it. She threatened that she'll throw all my barbie dolls and everything I've got away. I believed it and eventually, for one last time, I wrote some story/poem (I don't really remember) on barbie and me, how we're best friends and everything. >.< xDD

I might have it somewhere here. Man, those days. God knows how I got over them. My mom told me that I had cried for days and days and that, I also took scissors and cut my hair out because my mom didn't by me a dress which had barbie on it. DD: I was such a major obsessed disaster barbie girl.

Age 0-4 years my dad always read books to me, one book name Bróðir minn Ljónsharta (My Brother Lionheart) after Astrid Lindgren blew my mind and made me want to create something so amazing. So I tried writing then, but I was very young so it just became jibberish still I always told stories. I most often just tried to scare my younger cousins... It worked.

I told stories as soon as I learned to talk, and my mom is convinced I "wrote" a poem when I was 3 or 4, however, I didn't write my first story until second grade, and my first full length novel when I was 13.

I started writing a really god-awful Dr. Seuss rip off when I was about 7 with my best friend at the time. We wrote about a moose who had a huge crush on a goose...and then we made up a bunch of words to make things rhyme. That was the first time I wrote a story...and I guess I got hooked after that

I thought I started around 6 or 7, but I recently found a story I wrote in kindergarten, when I was surely younger.. That makes me happy :3

I was interested in reading from the age of two or three. I've always been obsessed with books and for that reason when I was very small I listed writer as one of the three things I would be when I grew up. I made a point of reading all the books my infants school owned so that two other students and I were given permission to borrow from the classes above us instead.

However, my true interest in writing didn't come until i started Junior school so I ticked the 6-9 box. I took a liking to poetry and instead of copying stories my sister had written or writing things for class, I started to actually write because I was interested in it.

If the question had been 'when did you get serious about writing' that would have been harder to answer as I couldn't say if it was when I began to keep portfolios, aged 15, or when I made the decision to drop law in favour of an English and Creative Writing course, aged 19.

I had plenty of ideas when I was young. The first ones I wrote were ripoffs when I was probs 4. My first story was about why the trees lost their leaves. I wrote that in church I believe. I think I took a Jesus approach to that story.