Young Writers Society

The first story I ever wrote... I think I was either four or five.

It was supposed to be an autobiographical story for like, first grade or something. I thought my life was too boring so I made up a story about why I moved to Delaware. It spun a magical tale about my house burning down and we had to come live with a friend.

In truth, my dad got transferred to Delaware from Arizona.

Imagine my parents' surprise when my teacher told them she was sorry about our house fire!

change to my first responce: i first started writing decently for my age was in 3rd or 4th grade. I've been writing for my whole life, even when i could only scribble I'd pretend they were words...wow i've been a dork my whole life. Yay writing dorks!!!

change to my first responce: i first started writing decently for my age was in 3rd or 4th grade. I've been writing for my whole life, even when i could only scribble I'd pretend they were words...wow i've been a dork my whole life. Yay writing dorks!!!

author13, I did the exact same thing. Go writing dorks!

quote (RS):
Imagine my parents' surprise when my teacher told them she was sorry about our house fire!
Lol xD


author13: I totally agree!

I've always been writing, even if it was just journaling. The first story I can recall writing was when I was about four, and it was inspired by a picture of Princess Jasmine that I was coloring in a coloring book. I kept asking my mom how to spell Jasmine over and over and over, until finally she wouldn't tell me anymore and so I gave up the story. I couldn't write fast enough to suit myself. Still can't, actually.

I started writing longer stories (but never really finishing them) from age 8 till I was about 14, and then I discovered fanfiction and started writing more regularly. I started writing seriously when I was fifteen, around the time I joined YWS. I thought for a year (from spring of freshman year till spring of sophomore year) that I wanted to write novels for a living, but after doing a NaNoWriMo-eque thing in March, changed my mind. Seriously, who am I kidding? I am definitely not enough self-motivated to cut it. Hehe.

Now I write because I love it. I have tons of projects, some complete, some incomplete, but I rarely feel totally finished with anything. That's my darling, incessant inner editor at work.

I started when I was about nine, I think, maybe eight, and my first story was about a boy called Jeff, and a gnome who turned into a human.I'm pretty sure I threw my first stories notebook out and I really regret it. Warning to anyone thinking of doing this: Don't, you'll regret it. It doesn't matter how awful your first attempts are.

Omg... I don't even remember when I started writing... I started reading around 3 or 4 so I guess around then? I kept a journal by kindergarten and then I attempted a novel in the fourth grade (lol I still have it. It's so bad.). When do you "start"? I don't think I ever "started" at one point.

Outside of school, I began to write seriously at twelve years old. Late bloomer, I know. I also liked editing other's work too. Oldest I've taken on was a non-fiction piece by a thirty-four year old women. In my younger years (1-11), I was too busy fishing, hiking, exploring and basically tromping around forest until dark, and freaking my mom out. Most of the time though, I was fishing. My dad taught me as soon I was able to walk.

I was five. I had just seen the movie "The Mouse and the Motorcycle" and I was absolutely thrilled with it. I went home and wrote a story about it, it went something like this:

The mouse finds a motocycle
the mose is happy
the mouse rides the motocycle
the motosycle rides the mouse
the mouse and the motocyle are happy!

It was fully illustrated too. I then wrote a sequel called "The dinosaur and the motorcycle" which had a similar plot format: the dinosaur found the motorcycle, the dinosaur took a ride on the motorcycle, the motorcycle took a ride on the dinosaur, and the dinosaur and the motorcycle were happy. So, basically, I've been attributing human thoughts and feelings to inanimate things since I was five, it's nothing new.

The first time I actually wrote out a chapter story with actual description and dialogue was when I was in third grade, something about a doll being broken, and then it came alive and attacked people...

Yeah, I was a pretty disturbed kid.

Dang.

That's pretty hard.

I've been writing for, I guess, as long as I've lived. Or, at least, when I started to write.

Since when I was 3 or 4 years old, all I could speak was Chinese. It was pretty hard on me when I moved to an English-speaking community and I had to learn it by myself, so yeah.

I remember my first major story was like some 9-paged story about this girl named Kaida and it was inspired by a picture my kindergarten teacher gave to me.

Well, at least a year truly writting, but..... I guess since I hit 4-5 grade. My first book was for ... I think 4th grade? Any way, It was called the Bully Problem. It was about 20 pages. My teacher was suprised I wrote that much and i was forced to shorten it to 10 pages.

I've always been telling stories. I had loads of imaginary friends, and so I played with them and made up their stories and everything, even before I could actually write it down.

One of the first of these stories that I remember was about a prince and a princess. I made paper puppets and told everyone who'd listen about their daily lives.

I've kept a journal since my grandmother's death when I was 4. I still have that first journal too. It's odd.

I wrote a saga, spanning several little stories, about a magical cat. I spelled it "majikl" though. I was 5.

Good times.

I wrote my first serious story at ten. It was about royal twins whose kingdom gets invaded by their ally and their father is killed fighting.

And when Fire Emblem 2 came out on GBA a year later, the storyline was shockingly familiar. *looks around suspiciously*

Yeah i started writing decently in the 3rd or 4th grade, which i already said, but I didn't say what my first story was about! It was about this mom telling this girl a story about when she was like seven and her and some of her friends ended up in a closet/portal thingey having to fight a weird monster thing and their lives. It was based on a dream and a neopets thing ^.^