Is writing something you have always wanted to do?

[BarbaraZ]

Just curious... was writing always a part of you or did you discover this need/desire to write in a round about way. I know writing was not a part of my life. My field is art, specifically photography right now. Yet writing has sneaked in the back door of my life and started me on a new and very unexpected journey.

[Insert Book Title]

It kind of eased it's way in. I read a lot and got inspired. I wanted to write a book too! I ended up throwing away the 1st 'book' I wrote because I did not like it. *Laughter*

[Angie]

Yes I've always known I wanted to be a writer. Ironically, I knew I wanted to be a writer even before I knew how to write. I had just learned how to read, and I decided that when I grew up I was going to make books, at the time I didn't actually know what that meant or that writing could be a career but I knew that it was what I was going to do.

[Book Calendar]

I really did not intend to write anything at first. I tried my hand at writing science fiction short stories, but that fizzled out. Then at some point I started writing my blog not any books. I really don't have any plans to write a book and I didn't even plan to have people cross post anything I put up on the web, but it happened.

I am finding that it is very useful to even write a blog. It improves your reading skills considerably. Reading and writing are intertwined, one improves the other. Writing makes you think about what you are reading much more deeply and it also gives you a different understanding on what is good.

[BarbaraZ]

I spoke to a local author this weekend, who had heavy life experiences as a youth (WWII) and promised that one day she would write about it. This promise was made at age 15... now in her 70s it came about, as a memoir. To know this at such a young age amazed me. But it also showed that the writing takes time to emerge

[Dusty]

I've always had a love of reading and for books and once I could write, I was writing poetry and short stories. I fell away from writing for several years but have recently come back to it. The love was always there, but my head was elsewhere.

[BarbaraZ]

I guess to do that actually writing is a big step. In several threads I see questions etc about how different writers go about setting up their project. It is the taking that first step. I found out that my mother wrote poetry in high school and college, but only by reading her yearbooks. The fact that she never carried it further is sad. I was most impressed with the quality of her writing. Her world as an adult was wife and mother... she never went past that for whatever reason I do not know. Yes, you mind/head has to be present

[Harvee Lau]

I guess I started a journal and then quit when someone found it and read it without my permission~ I was only about age 9 at the time. It was devastating, though nothing of consequence was in the journal. But it did put a damper on my wish to write, for a while.

[April Sanders]

I think I've always enjoyed writing. Definitely from Jr. High on. I always kept a journal (which with home schooling 4 kids is now nonexistent - I put my writing energies into fiction). I have loved to read historical fiction since Jr High as well. I've always loved history and fiction. The two are just a natural mesh. I wrote for the literary magazine at my high school in Massachusetts - mostly poetry. I also took a journalism course there and wrote for the school newspaper. My goal in high school was to be a journalist. I still would have loved to do that but I would not have met my husband or maybe even written my first book.
This Book #1 in this new series was begun when I was 16 and not finished until I was 27.
Blessings,
April Sanders

[BarbaraZ]

NaNoWriMo. I see this 'posted' at the Jr college where I work. I also have a friend who did it two years ago. It is quite a good challenge. Getting a certain amount of words out every week and making it good is a good test for any writer, I would think. I know, when I read about the writing styles of some great writers and for me, artists, they had set hours and sit down like any other 9-5 job... to produce, to write. It does not mean that all that they do will be perfect, but it keeps the juices flowing.

[Helenita]

To answer your question, yes! I love to write as much as I love to read. I have been writing since I was 12, but I've never tried to get any of my works published. Last year, I started taking some creative writing classes online from Gotham Writer's Workshop but stopped this year because of the economy.