When and Why did you start writing?

[clannadman]

I used to read a lot when I was little and started writing following that. I hardly read at all now (damn you internet) but managed to continue writing.

[Gambit74]

My interest stems from the times when I was still in elementary school. It first started when I had to write a story for Halloween, in which I wrote about some kids who discovers a sun dial inside a cave that serves as a count down for the death of all living things within the cave. My teacher really liked it, so I started writing more throughout the rest of my elementary years after that and I began realized my knack for creative writing.

Although I stopped writing for awhile once I reached middle school, I was inspired to take it up again when I had to write an essay for my high school's sophomore exit exam. I then took a writing class in my junior year of high school (Though we mostly watched bootlegged theatre movies in there because the teacher was lazy ), where I further developed my creative imagination through free writing. Ever since then, I've been developing all sorts of stuff and jotting them down as ideas for stories.

[Kokoro Hane]

Why I started writing? Well, if you can't find anything good to read, why not write your own story? It reminds me of what my Grandpa says "If you can't find what you want, make it yourself!" And so I started writing some novels. When I look back at my old stuff, it was so badly written, but I still love the characters and concepts. Writing a visual novel is a new experience, but REALLY fun, as it combines the elements of storytelling a video game programming.

[llplldll]

I started writing and drawing comics when I was about 10 or 11 years old (back in 1998, eons ago 0_o''). I was really into comic strips then (stuff like garfield,lol >o<'') Then when I was about 14 or 15 I discovered manga and started writing long form stuff. I created quite a few sketch books full of my own made-up manga series, its embarrassingly bad though, I don't even want to look back through that stuff...
These days Ive been doing less and less drawing. I think I enjoy writing the most but I tend to have a hard time with it if Im not inspired by something.