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When did you start writing?

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

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When did you start writing?

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

Beth Fehlbaum

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. 

E.R. Cook

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.” 

Donna Peizer

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!!

G.J. Reed

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. 

Christine Boucher

When did you start writing?

I seriously started writing about twenty years ago.

Karen S. Bell

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.

Anita Perez Ferguson

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.

K.L. Barstow

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...

Charles W. Page MD

When did you start writing?

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

Daphne McDonagh

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.

Deborah L. Perdue

When did you start writing?

I think I've been a writer all my life but it took a text message from a Goodreads friend to consider pursuing a career as a romance author. We both wanted to read BDSM romance books with mature characters and when we started there weren't many of those.

Karen Nappa

When did you start writing?

At age 5! As soon as I could put sentences together. I wrote two stories: one about a boy exploring planets; another about a cat that orders a robot version of himself to do all his chores. Great stuff!

Rush Leaming

When did you start writing?

As a youngster growing up in the cobbled streets of Stockport, UK, I read a lot of science fiction, and loved the ‘old-school’ masters such as HG Wells, Jules Verne, Isaac Asimov and John Wyndham. Short stories were penned from an early age, but I did not start writing novels until I retired. 

Clayton Graham

When did you start writing?

In my teens although it could be argued it was as a child when a teacher got us to write a lengthy piece of fiction. Mine was so bad that I avoided reading it at all costs. (Nice font by the way. I like it.)

Liam Robert Mullen

When did you start writing?

As a youngster growing up in the cobbled streets of Stockport, UK, I read a lot of science fiction. I loved the ‘old-school’ masters such as HG Wells, Jules Verne, Isaac Asimov and John Wyndham. 

I have written short stories from an early age, but after 'retirement' took my passion to the next level.

Clayton Graham

What makes writing your passion?

I enjoy bringing stories to life. I write character based stories based on my life experience. 

Linda Rawlins

When did you start writing?

I started writing way back in 1979 -- I didn't know what I was doing, but I muddled through my first sci-fi novel, Prophecy of Thol, and finally finished the first draft in 1984. It truly was awful. My main character cried through 85% of the book.

Dawn Greenfield Ireland

When did you start writing?

My earliest memory of wanting to write and realizing how much I enjoyed it was in the fifth grade. Sister Eugene's assignment to pick out an inspiring Life Magazine front cover from those she posted on the chalkboard and write a story about it was my favorite homework.

Carlos Alvarado

When did you start writing?

In 2011, while working as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice.

Marc Rainer

Share a bit about yourself – where do you live, are you married, do you have kids?

I'm a mom of two human's in training, a third if you count my husband. I live in Seattle, I say Seattle because that's easier than saying an unknown town near Seattle. And I am obsessed with butter chicken, if you don't know what I'm talking about, it is not chicken slathered in butter, well kind of. It's a delicious Indian curry (spiced tomato butter sauce) that is tasty with rice, with naan bread, on top of pizza, or inside of a burrito wrap. Just eat it. Butter chicken is all around my favorite food.

S.M. McCoy

When did you start writing?

Like many authors, I began as soon as I could write.  Even before I had written language, I doodled my feelings and thoughts.  I don't remember life without the synthesis of writing and processing life through personal expression.

Nancy Weston

When did you start writing?

Aged 9. I self published my first book in 2013 when I was substantially older.

Myles Bevis

When did you start writing?

I wrote many scientific articles during my academic career and started writing memoirs and fiction after retirement in 2006.

David R. Gross

When did you start writing?

I hadn't taken up writing (seriously) until the COVID-19 pandemic. Before then, I had been writing short plays and film scripts for myself and my friends. General fiction writing because a new personal challenge when I suddenly couldn't do either of those passions for a while. 

Norman Luce

When did you start writing?

Actively writing, for the purpose of it becoming published, spring of 2020. Within one year I co-wrote five military romance novels with author Melody Anne. Since that time I have co-wrote three additional novels with Melody Anne, two military/political thrillers and co-wrote two fantasy novels with Roger L. Osborne.

John Henley

When did you start writing?

Professionally, in 2000, although that was for books on various information technology topics. You know, the big books sold by the pound! I moved out of front-line tech in 2018 or so, and found that I missed writing a LOT. 

Don Jones

When did you start writing?

At the age of 13, I started writing short stories. From then on, I treated it as my "hobby" through college and starting a family. In 2010, I decided if I didn't take it seriously, I'd never reach my dream of becoming a full-time writer. 

Rhonda Lee Carver

What makes writing your passion?

Advocating for people to be as independent as they choose to be is my passion. Writing is a tool to help people become independent.

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When did you start writing?

The question of when I started writing is more difficult to answer than one would expect. I have no idea. It seems writing has always been in my blood. I would get a kick out of writing stories to my family in friends over the years - the many years.

Deborah M Menenberg

When did you start writing?

I've written plays and live shows since I was fifteen or sixteen. Later, two of my mentors and friends were writers, Parke Godwin and Marvin Kaye. I learned early on, the discipline of the work and the joy of when you have a good writing day.

Arjay Lewis

What makes writing your passion?

Actually, I can't remember exactly when, but it was definitely in grammar school. My most clear memory if of my fourth grade teacher. She used to offer extra credit assignments, and would cut out pictures from magazines and newspapers, and staple them to a piece of loose-leaf paper. We could choose one to write a story about. I must have done close to 25 or 30 of them! I wrote my first complete novel in freshman year of high school. Long story behind that! 

Gianna Simone

What makes writing your passion?

I was in third grade when the impulse to write first hit me. There was some kind of contest. All I know was that I entered and won!  That was the beginning of my writing career.  It all began with a story about a horse named Stormy.

Carol Weakland

What makes writing your passion?

I started writing as a journalist in high school and college, but left that career behind for almost thirty years. When I retired from corporate America in 2014 I finally considered revisiting my childhood fantasy of writing novels. 

Madison MIchael

What makes writing your passion?

When I was 8 years old

Peggy Jaeger

What makes writing your passion?

I’d say that books have always been my passion, especially fiction that engages the imagination. Once I began the journey of writing, storytelling became my way of life. I’ve been doing it so long now (more than 35 years), I can’t imagine a future time when I won’t write.

Connie Shelton

When did you start writing?

I have stories I wrote as a child. However, my first serious endeavor was started in 2010. I've always had an active imagination. Being a reserved person, writing stories was my way of dealing with the world.

SJ Wilke

When did you start writing?

Probably as soon as I learned to read. But I didn't start to write full time until I took early retirement years ago. 

Tricia McGill