When did you start writing?

Ever since I can remember, I have wrote. I used to write in multiple journals that I would track my days and deepest thoughts in. I still have the habit of allocating different journals to documenting different kinds of written reflections, thoughts, and ideas. 

When did you start writing?

I started writing when I was a kid. After college, I wrote mostly awful short stories while building my career and having kids. Once my kids got a bit older I decided to give a novel a try and Storm Forged was born from that effort. 

When did you start writing?

Long before I had anything profound to say, I was telling stories. And not long after I learned to write, I started putting those stories on paper. I would not care to vouch for the quality thereof, especially in the earliest days, but I've never lost the taste for stories and storytelling.

When did you start writing?

Reared in Telugu, the Italian of the East, I groomed myself in English, the language to converse, in which my youth made me pen ardent letters of crush. Subsequently the imbibed art of letter writing enabled me to craft a number of novel letters in the fictional arena as well.   

When did you start writing?

I started writing poems at 8 years old. I already loved language and phonics, and I simply followed the patterns of Dr. Seuss books and nursery rhymes and other children's poetry that I had heard, and made my own poems of rhyming verse about Calumet Park and stuff relevant to me. In 4th grade (8 years old) one of my poems won the school poetry contest (grade school 1 - 8)...

When did you start writing?

I decided in high school I wanted to “be a writer” without really knowing what that involved.  It stayed with me off and on for many years including through a long career as a lawyer. I wrote some things on a long sabbatical from the law in the 1980s, gave it up for another 20 years, then got back to it in earnest in 2013 and have now published 5 books (including revisions of some of the drafts I did in the 80s) and working on more. 

When did you start writing?

I have always been a journal, but it wasn't until I started researching my closed adoption that I got serious about telling my story.

When did you start writing?

I started writing with the death of my mother in 2000. I had a desire to record the story of her and our family who had lived amazing lives in the remotest parts of Australia's Northern Territory, an aboriginal community in Arnhem Land. The death of my father in 2007 gave me added impetus to complete this. Finally I published this memoir titled "Kaleidoscope"

When did you start writing?

I wrote songs and poems as a teenager, plays and short films in my twenties and thirties. My first novel came later. Much later.

When did you start writing?

Long ago, in the 80's is when I started writing.  My first book, however, was published in 1994 by AVON BOOKS.

What makes writing your passion?

Getting the stories in my head in the minds of others.

When did you start writing?

In the fall of 2006.

When did you start writing?

It all started when I was invited to join a writers' group in 2018. Did not know I had anything in me, but a spark was lit and it then became a flame.

When did you start writing?

I've loved storytelling and writing since childhood.  I started writing Reflections in 2008 after I had a vivid dream, but I stopped soon after starting.  It sat for 12 years until March 2020; then I completed it and published the novel in November 2020.

When did you start writing?

I started in my freshman year of high school, I took a journalism class and fell in love with writing.

When did you start writing?

It may have started years ago back in Miami when I submitted a short story called Powder Blue Sunday that was accepted by a small periodical. 

When did you start writing?

I wrote letters, proposals, advertising copy, brochures, presentations, legal contracts, and assorted other components of a successful corporate career...

When did you start writing?

I started my first novel at the age of 10 - and there have been many other starts since then - but they all ended in the fire. The first novel to see the light of day was "Through my Eyes. Again." in 2021...

When did you start writing?

However, it wasn't until I finally got out of an emotionally abusive relationship in 2017 that I finally began writing novels. My debut, Sunflowers Beneath the Snow, came out in January 2022.

When did you start writing?

The day of my grandfather’s funeral.

My shiny black shoes stood behind the line in front of my grandfather’s home. I bent my knees, swung my arm back and then moved it forward slowly. A penny flew from between my fingers. Everyone standing on both sides of the sidewalk watched the penny fly through the air as if in slow motion. It bounced onto the sidewalk and then into the line.

I jumped up and down in celebration!

When did you start writing?

Writing and language arts were always my best subjects in school, but I didn't start writing seriously and for long stretches until university.

When did you start writing?

I started writing when I was 18 years old. I was in a conversation with my sister about relationships and I had questions that I didn’t ask her. I decided to write my questions down. I’m not sure what I was going to do with them, but over the course of 15 years, those questions turned into my first book. 

When did you start writing?

I was making up stories before I knew how to write them down. In school, I always excelled in classes where I could write assignments on paper. It's not that I began writing at any certain time. It's that writing is a vital part of me.

When did you start writing?

I wrote my first short story when I was eight years old. I won a school award. I didn't return to writing until many years later when I published my first book in 2017. 

When did you start writing?

I took an interest in writing ever since I was around nine years old. I liked haiku poems and started writing them in the fourth grade. By thirteen, eighth grade, I really loved writing. I’d get lost in reading a book and then I’d write my own fiction and non fiction stories.

When did you start writing?

I've been writing since elementary school, however I didn't get serious about it until I turned 50.  I have a number of "someday"  projects.  "Someday" I'll learn silver-smithing, "someday", I'll travel Europe, "someday" I'll take a cruise...

When did you start writing?

All my life -since a child

When did you start writing?

Writing began for me in the third grade. I wrote poetry about chess and Norse mythology. With no writers in my life, I have no idea what inspired this. My first submission was an article for “Dragon” magazine. They rejected it of course. But I was on my way! …sort of. ....

When did you start writing?

When Covid first appeared in the United States, and we were told to stay inside, I decided to use the downtime to do something positive that I’ve always wanted to do and that was to write a book.

When did you start writing?

Seriously I started writing a few years ago. I always have had a passion for writing, but I never had the time. Being a mother was a full-time job. My main priority was providing for my children to ensure they had a roof over their heads and food on the table. 

When did you start writing?

I have written medical articles and book chapters but never anything personal until 2019 when I came across a box I had not opened for forty years. When I read the journals and letters within, and relived an illegal abortion in 1969, coming out as a lesbian and training to be a doctor when it was nearly an all-male profession, I realized my story had relevance beyond the personal, especially now.

When did you start writing?

1981 when I enrolled in a writing class with Almut McCauley; Spokane Falls Community College. 

When did you start writing?

I have been writing as long as I can remember. It's how I process life. 

When did you start writing?

I've been writing since I was a child. My first memory of wanting to be a writer was a book I made for a school project out of sheets of paper that I folded and stapled. It was about a family of bugs who move into a house from the outside to escape the winter. I did all the illustrations myself. From that moment, I was hooked and I've been writing ever since. 

When did you start writing?

In a sense, I have never not written. There was a time in my life when I was a practicing attorney, which required an incredible amount of writing. I worked for a time for a nonprofit doing technical writing, and later, I owned a small business and was responsible for all of the written policies, procedures and other such communications required either by law or simply to make things run smoothly. With these types of writing, I developed excellent language skills, but it was not until I was in my sixties that I began seriously to explore “creative writing.” 

When did you start writing?

I've been writing since highschool.  As a sophomore I had visions of becoming a journalist, and even began the "Writers Digest" writing course.   At the time I enjoyed reading sci-fi books, so that's what I wrote about initially.  But then I got caught up in the Vietnam War and joined the military.  After I got out, I found that my ability to put words on paper would pay very good in the nuclear utility industry, and it did!!

When did you start writing?

I first started writing when I was a little girl when I lived in Indiana. My friend and I decided we were going to write a book together and I was beyond thrilled. Hints of continuing to write came up again and again: winning a writing contest, my freshman year writing professor interest in my work, but I let the practicality of being a writer get in the way and waited until my forties to publish my first book, Express Yourself! Joyful Journaling for Kids, which is a guided gratitude journal for kids,  and now my second book, which is a fictional series. It takes courage to put your work out. 

When did you start writing?

I seriously started writing about twenty years ago.

When did you start writing?

I began writing nonfiction books in 1999, but my fiction writing began in 2016 after I had been very sick and lost my interest in doing just about everything.

When did you start writing?

Years ago. I've written several books without any intention of ever publishing a single one. It was something I just did for fun and for myself. Until I realized that I hated the career path I was on and knew writing and publishing was my passion.

When did you start writing?

I started writing over fifteen years ago. My first book grew out of my quest for a good night's sleep. I wrote a book which explored sleep and rest from a Christian worldview, called Surrendered Sleep...

When did you start writing?

I wrote my first chapter for a collaborative book in 2018.

When did you start writing?

I wrote poems and essays throughout my teenage years and then as an adult. In 2012, I published my first Gratitude Journal, Grace of Gratitude Journal. Since then, I have continued writing on gratitude, and have since published 4 more books.