Why did you start writing?

[TheEldritchGod]

Because I ate an entire six-pack of cake frosting and washed it down with a bottle of jolt and woke up in a puddle of my own vomit with a story called adventures in the 5th dimension.

Am I joking?

 

[SkippyForfex]

I had always loved reading books and was obsessed with them. But later on as I started to grow, I started to develop very creative imaginations in my head. So I thought why don't I try writing novels? Yeah and I wanted to see if people would enjoy my novels

 

[doravg]

The first serious thing I wrote was my fanfiction: Breaking the Mold. I was between jobs and needed to fill in the time until my contract started with the job I am currently having. I remember it was my Vampire the Masquerade phase, I was crazy about that game. Not only that, but I read all the books I could get my hands on.

So, I decided to write a fanfiction. I started. I cracked up 5k chapters, something I now know not to do, in a single day. Sometimes even two of them. It was easy, considering I used the Hetalia characters as templates and the lore from the game.

Then, I rushed the ending, my job started, and I didn't start writing again until after the busiest campaign at work ended, which was August last year, I believe.

The second time, I started writing because I was bored. The first, to do something about my excitement, which drove me crazy with all the bottled up energy.

 

[HappyVainGlory]

Over a decade ago, I read some fanfictions and thought 'I can do better.'

 

[Shard]

Spent basically my whole life reading absolutely absurd amounts, and creating worlds in my head. Eventually I was inspired to start writing by the work of one of my favorite authors, specifically A Tail's Misfortune by SME. I really liked how the characters and setting interacted, and finally decided maybe I should try writing as well.

 

[NobleTalon]

I was bored and I saw that friend was doing it so I wrote

I was tired of cliche novels, righteous heroes, and armor plots.

 

[Jihn]

When I was a little foal back in the late 00s, I started to get ideas. I found an app called Flipnote, and I started to make drawings of my characters and post them online. I also started to 'write' stories on my Flipnote and in notebooks, and then I found Wattpad. I started posting there, and then I got bored of it when the forums went away. I didn't get enough feedback, so here I am now. Posting on here, and writing away in Word documents.

 

[kalonphaos]

I have a lot of ideas for stuff and I wanted to express them through writing, plus being on here recently and seeing everyone else write makes me inspired to do so as well. I have a lot of second guessing and insecurity issues surrounding my ability to write and the quality of it, but hey I just gotta push forward and try.

 

[Fox-Trot-9]

I started writing b/c of Ghost Hunt and Death Note. Hence, my original stories tend to have a supernatural mystery element in them.

 

[ShrimpShady]

I tried to make comics up until middle school. Then I realized my drawing skills were nowhere near good enough to draw the scenes I came up with, so I started going all in on writing and gave up on drawing entirely. Glad I did.

 

[TheEldritchGod]

Because if I looked busy sometimes they would forget about me and then I wouldn't get the belt.

 

[Jet]

Reading Martin Eden as a 7th grader was a rather life-defining experience for me. I'd been trying to write stuff ever since many years before that too ofc, but those were endeavours light-hearted and of passing nature.