Hey! When did you start writing?

- I'll start:
I started in elementary school, don't know exactly when. I recently found a book of these goofy little poems I remeber writing in from third grade on. I've also found bunches of little short stories , or I should say beginings of them. My mom has this little book I wrote in 4th grade. It's really amusing to go back and look at stuff you wrote when you were a little kid. I can definetly say I wrote about some pretty bizzare things. Basically, I've always writen some, but I really got into it in high school, and continue to write somewhere between often and always. =)

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.... who is procrastinating (her specialty).. uh oh!

ah, my favorite subject.

i always enjoyed making up queer little stories when i was in 5th grade, and started to drastically expand my voacabulary then. through sixth grade i wrote cute little poems and some sort stories. in seventh, i started to write vividly descriptive journal entries. i never settled down and found the true form of writing (poetry) until april of 8th grade. long story short, heartbreak settled in, my muse soon followed, and mournful love poetry was born. from that i grew to write short poems every day. i have made up 3 anthologies full of them. since arriving here at quoteland i still write those three, PLUS atleast one long poem per day, sometimes 2 or 3 at a time. (what can i say, the inspirations keep on a comin...) so that's my story...

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~To be loved is to be hurt, and to be hurt is to be loved.~

I started in 2nd grade or so. And my teachers all said i was advanced, so i continued and got good grades in english.

"He who stands on the toilet is high on pot."
-A friend

"He who hesitates is a damned fool."
-Mae West (1892 - 1980)

"He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying."
Michel de Montaigne (1553 - 1592)

I've been writing all my life but I only started my novel projects in Gr. 8 (about 4 years ago) the first one got boring real fast so i quit that one. Then came an anime-ish one that didn't really fly htat well either so i put it on hold. i then tried a 9/11 based one but it was too controversial (blamed the CIA) so i went back to the Anime-ish one which i am currently working on.

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I believe it was in 5th grade, my teacher read us this story and she had us use one of the lines from the story to create our own story, and it was the first time that I felt like I really accomplished something. Although it was a very short piece, I really really loved it and my teacher liked it too. That's when I started, but I didn't start doing it regulary 'til about 7th/8th grade.

~Mickey~

I don't think I ever started writing on my own time until I was in middle school. I didn't start writing any attempts at poetry until about the end of seventh grade. Even then, I rarely, if ever, wrote anything for myself, I always wrote about subjects my friends presented to me...needless to say, I notice the emotionless, or the unrealistic emotion in most of my earlies pieces.

Now, well...I haven't advanced much, but I do write more often.

-Hellsangel

Actually, I can faintly recall myself writing a poem about fairies when I was in the 3rd or 4th grade.

My next poem came in the 7th grade when I thought I was madly in love with someone. I still have that poem and I laugh everytime I read it. The first lines read I'm trapped in a maze, a maze of love. I can't believe I wrote something that corny.

Everything after those few poems in the 7th is hazy. I don't remember writing a poem within that period. However, in the 9th grade, we had a poetry writing competition and I brew up something about changes. I think that poem is on QL.

Then, I wrote a few poems here and there. Then, around this summer I started writing about stuff besides Love, Friendship and Loss. So here I am, writing about bizarre topics like my pierced nose!

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"You can't expect a flower garden,
If you can't handle the occasional weed!" - Fair_Gwenofair

I started writing little stories in 2nd grade. They were the coolest. Istill have them. Then in 5th grade I started writing long stories, like so long they could almost be a whole book. Then when I was 12 I started writing poetry, my favorite. I still know the first poem I wrote. I have it memorized.

at night I dream
the light of love
soon will shine my way
and the darkness of hate
soon will go away
sometimes I fear
when my dream is done
that love will not be near

I think it's decent for a 12 year old.

-Megan Jean
(I love the color yellow!)

I started writing when Debbie Gibson was popular. I wanted to be just like her and sat up for hours writing, trying to be her. It was silly why I started, but I'm glad I did.

"Someday this will all make sense."

http://www.angelfire.com/nj/mandysue/index.html

Before she died I asked my mother what she thought I would be when I grew up. She said when I was in Kindergarten, I was always making little books with my own original stories. She's dead now, and I don't have the little books.

The end.

I started about a year ago at the ripe old age of 18

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Writing has always been a tradition in my family! My elder sister and I've concocted stories from our 7/8-year-old imagination.. I still have the big orange book with all those weird tales of unknown lands! It never fails to make me laugh!
But I only became introduced to poetry in 6th grade -> lol.. my first poem was about food!! (no wonder people think I'm a food-a-holic..).. as time progressed, I've written a lot of poems, on various topics!
I guess it's all about evolving! If you can write, then don't let anything stop you! That's all I've got to say.. Cheers!


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Do what you think and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.-Richard Bach

Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road, Which to discover we must travel too. - Omar Khayyam -Peace-

Interesting thread.
I have been scribbling forever but writing since not too long ago! I usually concocted stories for my own fun or recorded a memory/feeling rather than write for 'writing' as such.
Erlinda… hey, good of your mother to have reminded you, I think you can make NEW little books… you don't have to stop! I've read some of your writing here and it's not something that you should just abandon! Same goes to everyone… whether you write for fun or for fame or for anything… just don't give it up. Write and share.

I made a post on a related topic (Why do you write ?) in another sitey about this, a few months ago, I'd copy-paste that here:
Nice topic... especially for a writing site!

I didn’t take writing quite seriously most of my life.. nor was I really much exposed to literature (gulp… then I discovered Quoteland last-to-last year, and discovered that the World is quite big and people are much smarter than me and what I know is hardly anything!) or writing… most of my childhood, whatever I had written down, was usually just to “record” something [usually on vacations… like while going somewhere, I would usually carry some notebook along (along with MANY other things… walkman, books, games… oh that’s another story!) and write about how I spent the day(s) at that place and what I saw… and usually sketch along a bit… (which really wasn’t “writing” – it was more like, well, it’s something that I might value for it carries memories but hey I wouldn’t call it writing! Not like I really cared all that much about expression… I just wanted to capture what I saw..)], or just some short story or something that I would pen down for my own fun more than anything else (without any thought/care of what others would think of that, or getting published, etc. – I don’t think I particularly had in mind even to show my scribbling to anyone..).

It was basically when I joined QL, that I would “write” - and I would write just “to inspire”. [Gosh, sometime back, I read some of the works that I posted there earlier… and found myself almost wishing that none of the QLers go back to read those works! They… were… well, not like my writing is the best in the world even now, but those were, slightly blush-able works ..]

Now I sometimes write just because I want to play around a bit with words… but usually I do make sure that what I write has a MEANING or a message… if it doesn’t have much, I convince myself that such-and-such might convey this-and-that.., and sometimes I write just because I push myself to write something if I haven’t written something for a while. Rarely, I write out of anger… as a sort-of (just sort-of, though..) catharsis… though that doesn’t happen often… but the poem(s) I wrote out of anger and passion is one of my favourites among my works..

I usually prefer to write on things/events other than the ones that occur in my life. It's a big world.. though, of course, autobiographical piece have their value, and I'm considering writing something out of my non-life..

Well, all this to say… I write for varied reasons, and/but if any of my words touch anyone, that would make me happiest.



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"If all they say of good and evil were true, then my life is but one long crime."
~Kahlil Gibran in Sand and Foam

I usually only write when I have something to work through. Therefore, most of my writing is fairly personal and not much emphasis is given to form. It also comes in bunches. Still, I consider myself fortunate to have a written history of my life- the chronicled events together with the emotions and the way I chose to respond. Very little of it is good enough to share, I very rarely put enough effort in to create more than short, choppy, free verse. Mostly, its just for me, at the time. It is intresting, however, when I look back to see that certain images have remained with me. I have personified certain airy concepts, sometimes in people, or forces, or lands. I used those images again and again, as if I have created my own language. Also, I used to address myself as "Child". I rarely do that anymore- only when I intend to imply an aspect of ignorance and innocence which much of my writing has lost. I also used to relate to many forces as mother or teacher, now I relate to them more directly, and often with more passionate language.

I couldn't say when I started writing. I remember a time when, as a little girl, I spent the afternoon swinging on my swingset in the backyard and singing a song I'd made up about seasons and how no one was ever content (I didn't know the word content at the time,. of course). I couldn't have been more than maybe six, far to young to write, but I wish I have wished many times I could remember that song!

I also often would hide in the closet in the guest room alone and tell myself stories. I remember talking to myself in third person quite a bit when I was younger. ("She is walking down the hall, will her best friend come over and play?") That's a habit I have tried very hard to get out of over the years- its very creepy! But I think I began to write sometime before kindergarten.

[This message was edited by criss on 11-23-04 at 11:44 AM.]

At the age of 12 years I started writing to a girl that met in church camp. Her name is Vivian and I can recall her address (1526 Highland Avenue). I can recall how excited I was when I got my first letter from her.

10, 5th grade. I had always had to write in a journal for school amd other such writing assignments, but in 5th I wrote my first short story without being assigned to. It was about twins girls (based on my and my best friend) and their older brother (based on the boy I liked).

I didn't write poetry (other than when assigned) untill high school. It was the cool thing to do. Even though no one saw my wrote, writing was way better than history or Physics. (some of my best stuff was written in Chemistry class, two or three of my poems were even published in the school literary mag my Junior year.).

"I'm telling you. People come and go in this Forest, and they say, 'It's only Eeyore, so it doesn't count.' They walk to and fro saying, 'Ha ha!' But do they know anything about A? They don't. It's just three sticks to them. But to the Educated - mark this, little Piglet- to the Educated, not meaning Poohs and Piglets, it's a great and glorious A."--Eeyore, The House at Pooh Corner

The earliest I remember writing is fifth grade. I had just read the coolest book! It was a tom swift novel, and the only thing I remember now is that he was on the cover and it had a gravity-skateboard and a small black hole. Ok, so maybe i do remember more, but the point is- i wanted to write a story where the person had a cool, interesting adventure. So I think I re-wrote the story using my own people, my own words and changed it to do what I wanted it to do.

I do remember having to write it in a marble-bound notebook as daily journal entries for my fifthgrade teacher, Mrs. Whitehead, and hoping she never actually 'read' them.

Before that, I've always been around story tellers and books and pretty interesting people. I remember talking my little sister to sleep at night, so I could turn the light back on and read. I'd tell her all sorts of stories, and let her pick out the names. Or I'd retell the stories I'd read, and ahem, improved upon. I didn't write poetry for a long time, long long long. Not until highschool. Then I helped this girl write a poem for the school magazine... but made her promise not to tell. And I'd secretly been working on poems probably since I was about 14 or 15. Since about the time my grandmother died. *shrug*

I *ALSO* remember writing a story and finishing it, and being so proud of it and my LITTLE brother *coff-brat-coff* ripped it up. So now I can't even finish anything.

-Harv
Stella Splendens
December 22, 1985-March 27, 2003

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This won't be hard to belive but I just started writing after I joined this site. By a little push from a friend of mine, I just put down a few words here and there and the next thing I knew, I was hooked! Now, I'll not consider myself a good writer, but its whats in your heart that counts.

Since I joined here, I have found so many interesting poets and authors its amazing. I've learned a little from each and every one. Hey, even Lets replied to my latest poem, Kings and Queens and Guillotines, that she see's a major improvment from days gone by. Thanks dear.

Although I don't write enough, when I do I feel proud. So everyone, if old Sentra can hang in there, anybody can,....lol

Keep on writing!

Thanks much, sentrawoods!

Hey... how about if I start a thread dealing with our first writings posted unrevised, as they were? It would be cool to see where we have come from... and what we were...
Many of my earlier stories were about gangs of friends doing all sorts of adventures or solving mysteries, with some of them falling in love with some others and everyone being happy ever after . That was the result of my reading list Sweet Valleys, Enid Blytons, Nancy Drews, Baby Sitters Clubs all combined and of course my dreamy mind . But I'd also write short poems (some of them were stranegely, good! Some OTOH are better called "scribblings" than "writings".), short memoires etc.
I think it'd be cool... I would start a thread in GD soonish, where we can post our oldest works and discuss them and have a nice laugh... I'd post a link when I do.

Edit, here it is! Share your first writings! Please do share your first writings! Incidentally I'm sick of my signature being relatively obscured by that "stoopid" (Sanya's spelling) edit-note at the bottom so I'm gonna make the latter white-fonted.

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"If all they say of good and evil were true, then my life is but one long crime."
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[This message was edited by LetswriteNshare on 11-24-04 at 06:42 AM.]

I started writing when I was in the 5th grade, and I started to write this story about a mute girl. I was convinced that I would write a nobel-prize winning novel and get rich! Last year, (my freshman year) I wrote a poem about my horses and entered it in a contest and won an honorable mention! I was quite proud of myself!