When did you get interested in writing?

I actually wasn't born with the love (or the talent) of writing. When I was a child I hated English, and I hated the reading homework we had to do as well as writing papers. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit this, but when I was in elementary school I was in a special class for my reading and I hated it. I felt stupid and I always told myself I was a math girl and not an English girl. I've liked coming up with stories for as long as I could remember, but the thought of writing one of them down on paper or picking up a book was horrifying to me.

Then when I was in middle school things changed. I started not to mind English and even started to read. I grew to love reading more than I ever thought I would, and then the next year I had an amazing English teacher that changed everything for me. Right before I entered high school (around thirteen or fourteen) I started to write my first novel from an idea my sister gave me. I was just messing around at the time, but I had no idea what it would lead to. Now I'm majoring in English and it's basically my life. Plus I've written tons of novels since then. Some of us don't find our passion until later in life I didn't even admit to myself that I loved it so much I wanted to make it my life until the end of my junior year.

I remember creative writing time in 2nd grade was literally the greatest thing ever. (I still have the hand-written stories I wrote...pure gold). I first started trying to write a novel in middle school I believe and I had three major ideas and they all sucked epically (I remember one was a rip-off of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants). I didn't start writing seriously until high school and I didn't become serious about trying to become published and what not until end of high school/early college.

Thanks Ms. Russell!! (2nd grade teacher).

I first got into writing in fourth grade, thanks to the crazy encouragement of my English teacher. Now when I look back on those writings, I have no idea what she saw in them. xD
Cool poll by the way. :3

My mom found me an old picture of me writing :3
I was so cute as a little girl.

At aged 5 I wrote a story that was basically the three little pigs where I changed the ending. I got a silver cup for it!

Wohoo "20+"! Better late than never! (But really? only 1%? DudeMcGuy feels DudeMcOld... . )

I remember writing some pretty awful fanfics and plays when I was five xD I've always loved stories and I thought writing my own would be pretty fun. I used to make little drawings on top of the characters and really elaborate titles, and then I used to shove them away into unused shelves in our apartment. My mum was not amused. ;D

I grew up in a writing family. I've always been fascinated with the concept, and figured I'd turn into a writer like all seven of my older siblings, but I only recently became serious about.

Eight? Nine? Then? I don't remember exactly when. That rhymes. But I do remember being inspired by the Redwall books.

I really started writing when I was six. I wrote a page and a half story about a princess that was trapped in a tower by her evil uncle Rancid (I knew it meant something along the lines of 'stinky' but I thought no one would be afraid of a guy named Stinky). I wrote a leprechaun story when I was eight that made it into the school's literary magazine and a story I wrote the year after about a friendly alien who loved to eat guacamole, which, at the time, I spelled it 'gwakamolay'. I've loved to read and make up stories ever since I could read.

I uh, actually didn't start 'reading' until I was seven. I knew that I was destined to be a writer since I was around eight or ten. I don't know why, but when your not entertained, you entertain yourself, which gives you A LOT of creativity. A LOT.

During highschool, when I was lonely...

The first time I can remember loving writing was when I was in grade 2, but it wasn't until I was 10 that I thought of writing as a possible career to strive towards. It was about then that I really started writing stories and creating ideas that I might write about for fun, rather than just at school.

I remember when I was back in elementary school and I just wrote stuff in this red composition book that I still have. It's filled with random ideas and pictures of anime characters that I liked. The ideas are good, but I just don't want to read what I wrote back in fifth grade. I stopped about half way throughout the book. I may actually use them some of them in one of my new stories.

When I was a kid, my dad owned his own newspaper and I remember going to the printing place to get the new issue every month. That was my favorite time of the month. You could smell the ink fresh off the presses. It was the greatest thing. I remember how my dad use to spend hours and hours in his office constantly typing and writing. I always had an interest in what one could come up with in the written language. I didn't actually write my first real story until I was nine. It was horrible. I tried to write a fairytale. I remember feeling so accomplished because it was soo long. One and a half pages, surely this was a novel! After my dad realized I had a gift for it, he would let me write articles and things for his newspaper. I enjoyed it, but he had to change a lot of it and it made me mad. So I stopped writing for a "boss" and went into freelance writing. It didn't work out too well. I didn't even get any recognition until my freshman year when I won a prize for an enviromental poem during earth week. It's been a rough ride, friends.

My dad wasn't successful either. His local newspaper went out of business because he couldn't sell anymore ads. Now he's a bartender. It's seldom a writer has a happy ending.