When did you start writing?

My first published poem was as a senior in high school. I've always loved to write. 

R. Janet Walraven

When did you start writing?

I started writing fiction in 2005, when I got really upset by a film that glorified  domestic violence. I wanted to write a novel upon which to base a sequel.  It's still on my computer, and dozens of writing classes and workshops later, I know it's a mess. I find that real life, and my day job, informs my writing. I often have parallel fiction and non fiction projects going at the same time. 

Carole Ann Moleti

When did you start writing?

I started writing songs when I was twelve, and that same year I wrote and published a sports newspaper. I wrote a play at 15 and film scripts in college, all the while continuing to write songs. Throughout my life I've written newspaper & magazine articles and columns, but it wasn't until I was 77 years old that my first novel was published.

Rick Bleiweiss

When did you start writing?

I started my first series in 2018 and published in 2019.

E.C. Land

When did you start writing?

I started writing in graduate school, when a professor remarked that he thought I had some talent. He devised my curriculum to include the finishing of my first novel, which I handed to him on the morning of my graduation...

Dawn J Rasmussen

When did you start writing?

I began writing in high school. I had a terrific English teacher who encouraged us to write - anything - as long as we did every day.

M. A. Richter

What makes writing your passion? 

It is one place where I can be me. 

Not in the role of wife and mother but where I can be myself.

Glenice Whitting

When did you start writing?

I started writing novels seriously only since I retired, some six years ago. But during my career, in selling IT services, I wrote proposal after proposal, and that feeling of handing out a well-written document provided a lot of satisfaction. So, I figure writing fiction gives me similar rewards.

RC Cameron

What makes writing your passion? 

Sitting down at my desk to start a brand new story, work through edits or promote a published book is something I love. When it feels like a reward or treat rather than a hassle, you know it's a passion.

Vicky Walklate

What was the feeling when you published your first book?

It was crazy to me, that someone liked my book enough to publish it. I liked my own stories, but I didn't have a lot of faith that other people would, and when you submit your book out into the world, you kind of automatically brace yourself for a "no." When I went through the final proofreading before we published, and saw the finished manuscript, I started crying.

J. Anne Campanile

What was the feeling when you published your first book?

It was a huge accomplishment at the time.  Something I had dreamed of since I was a child.

Richard W. Kelly

What makes writing your passion? 

I love getting lost in new worlds, new characters, and an experience different (but sometimes similar) to my own. I dedicate a lot of time to perfecting my craft and shaping my stories.

Wendy Million

When did you start writing?

I started writing  short stories and poetry in high school as a way to express myself.

Andrew Pacholyk

When did you start writing?

In high school, I wrote some poetry and short stories and began taking writing classes, but it wasn’t until the 1990s that I began to get serious about crafting full length novels. 

Jacie Floyd

When did you start writing?

I have written in technical fields throughout my career as a senior executive and senior government consultant...

W. Michael Hewitt

When did you start writing?

I have been scribbling words since I picked up a crayon. I always thought of the 'what if' in my mind and enjoyed fashioning a scene from those thoughts. While others moaned about essays and term papers, I savored them. It was another chance to write. I enjoy writing.

Barbara Daniels Dena

When did you start writing?

Since childhood....I knew I wanted to write by eight. At ten, I won my first poetry competition. I was also ten when a friend gave me a child’s book of English history. I read the story of Elizabeth I, another unwanted and seemingly unloved daughter...

Wendy J Dunn

When did you start writing?

When I was teaching writing to middle school students is when I really got into serious writing. I had penned a historical fiction before that, but it was in the studying of writing and preparing for my students and writing with them, I realized I was a writer!

Larada Horner-Miller

When did you start writing?

I think I always wrote what could be called stories. I remember writing in middle school and high school. I think I would classify them as scenes, now. What really started me was when I worked in a school system as a teacher of 4th and 5th grade students who were learning disabled...

Judy Kelly

When did you start writing?

In February of 2019

Laura John

When did you start writing?

I started writing in high school but never thought of it as a career. In 2012 I decided to take the story ideas rattling around in my head and put them on paper, (well, in the computer). From there it took off.

Kat Canfield

When did you start writing?

As an actor, I naturally started my writing career with plays. I have written seven full-lengths and one one-act...

Jan Notzon

When did you start writing?

I first began writing novels when I was in high school, many years ago. I have written many novels, most of them unpolished, but the ones I like the best are fully polished or getting there now. One is up for sale, fully edited, award winning and loved by all its readers.

M. A. Richter

What makes writing your passion?

I've always written stories - ever since primary (elementary) school - I've always wanted to tell stories & entertain people.

Anthony Rocha Newton

What makes writing your passion?

I always loved writing.  My Mother was a school Librarian, so I was surrounded by books all my life.  In school, I could not wait to write English papers...

Tricia Draper

What makes writing your passion?

I've been writing all my life. I was lucky enough to grow up surrounded by books, and my Mum taught me how to read before started school...

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What makes writing your passion?

Being able to express my insights and provide stories that entertain and enhance the imagination of children.

LeCain Smith

When did you start writing?

I've always written, but my first published book was in 2012.

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When did you start writing?

I started to write when I was 16. My book was in a notebook, written with a pencil.

Kristina Gallo

When did you start writing?

I've always loved words and writing. I started writing stories as a young child and used to write lyrics to music on the piano as a teen...

Jordan Alexander

When did you start writing?

I wrote short stories in grammar school.

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When did you start writing?

I began writing science fiction short stories in high school. I started writing software and system engineering, non-fiction books in 1993...

Donald Firesmith

When did you start writing?

I started writing in middle school, when a classmate was killed by a hit and run car, we all had to write a poem and mines was published in school newspaper.

Julius C. Franks

When did you start writing?

I don’t really know how old I was when I started writing stories. I wrote them for school, I’m certain, but the first time I wrote without any academic goal I was 12, I remember that much...

Bruno Martins Soares

What’s the story behind your choice of characters?

I started writing in 2007 but stopped off and on for many years for many reasons and things to overcome.  I started this book then and took me this long to get it off the ground.

Glenn Goodwin

When did you start writing?

I started to write when I was nine or ten.  From an early child until high school, being a writer had been my desire.

Claudia Clark

When did you start writing?

I have always loved writing. I began writing poetry and creating greeting cards for Mother’s Day, etc. when I was just nine years old...

Janice Spina

When did you start writing?

I actually struggled with reading when I was really small, but once I started reading stories on my own I also started writing.

Kristen James

When did you start writing?

I am a writer. I have always been a story-teller. It’s a family tradition. I remember my grandmother as the queen of pithy comments who served putdowns at her Sunday dinners, along with her pot roast...

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When did you start writing?

I've been writing stories and poetry since I was a kid.  I got more serious about writing in the 90's when I joined the Writer's Federation of New Brunswick and began entering their contests.

Paula D. Tozer

When did you start writing?

I started off reporting in college for my school paper and for a local daily newspaper in Connecticut, I then went on to get my master's degree in journalism.

Tara September

When did you start writing?

I started writing when I was thirteen but of course, it wasn't until my husband got tired of all the half-scribbled stories on yellow legal notepads that he gave me the go-ahead to pursue my dream professionally...about 15 years ago.

Loni Lynne

When did you start writing?

I started writing when I was a little girl, maybe four or five years old. I had a little "library" in my room and I added my own homemade books to the collection...

Michele Baker

When did you start writing?

I've been writing for as long as I can remember. I'd always wanted to write novels, but I knew I needed a "normal" job to live, so I studied journalism in college and worked as a television news reporter and anchor for a decade.

Jody Hadlock

When did you start writing?

I started writing ten years ago when I took creative writing classes. 

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When did you start writing?

I was a late-bloomer, as they say. I didn't start writing until my late twenties when I was teaching second grade. Those darn second-graders forced me to write—after all, they were writing, why shouldn't I?

W. Nikola-Lisa

When did you start writing?

I am not a child writing prodigy, I didn't start writing until I was well into my adult years. The bad news is that I don't have a long pedigree of academic degrees in writing. The good news is that when I started writing I had a whole lifetime as a voracious reader and a full bucket of life experience to draw from.

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What makes writing your passion?

My overall mission of writing books that inspire people to expand their opportunities to heighten their existence. For 50 years

Peter Jennings

When did you start writing?

I started writing professionally in 2005, but writing has been a part of my life since I was a young boy. I loved writing as a teenager and that passion grew as I got older.

Andy Clapp

When did you start writing?

I started writing when I was a little girl, around 9 years old. My mother flooded my room with bookcases full of books and encouraged me to read different genres and write my own stories. So that's what I started to do...

Cheryl Denise Bannerman

When did you start writing?

From a young age I dreamed of writing a book, I wrote a few blog posts and an article for an online magazine but in 2018 I knew it was time to start writing for real! 

Sharon Hughes

When did you start writing?

I have been writing since I was a child. I can remember writing poems when I was very young and that continued to adulthood. Composing poems in my mind while riding the subway in New York City was a habit I called - Poetry in Motion. 

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What makes writing your passion?

It's wonderful to escape into your own fiction. Even more wonderful if someone publishes it and people read and enjoy it. But the real joy is disappearing into that made up abyss. 

Steve Zettler

When did you start writing?

I wrote my first children's story when I was 17. I started writing science fiction novels when I was 27.

Heidi Skarie

When did you start writing?

I started this book in 2010. 

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When did you start writing?

I started writing as a young child. I once told a friend that I was going to write novels and she responded by telling me that eight-year-olds cannot write novels. Well, she was right...but I did publish my first novel in my sixties!

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When did you start writing?

I started writing full-time in 2001.