Poll #17: When Did You Start Taking Writing Seriously?

[Andy]

Poll idea by Shaun. It's a little different than the last poll, which was about when you started writing for pleasure.

You can probably define "seriously" as the point when you started critiquing and doing research. :D

[Nyx]

There should be an option for people like me who haven't started taking it seriously yet:P

[Lykaios]

Hehe, I can give you an approximate date too! 2nd of August 2006. I had this idea for a story and spent the next six months hand-writing it. *It was awful!* But I have been writing ever since and I am still trying to fix the mess my 13-year-old-self left my story in . . .
:D

[Tncowgirl]

I started in a class my mom forced me to take. I hate writing before that, but now I can't stop. It is my escape valve too. :D, but I read the books I wrote back then and choke. They are so bad. But I write most of my stuff on paper and then if I like it enough I put it on the computer. :D.

[Shaun]

I actually didn't want to be a writer until the latter half of my senior year when I realize that making up fantasy worlds and telling stories about things that don't exist is actually a lot of fun.

[Imelda]

About a week before my 20th birthday. Best year ever.

[Alex]

This is hard for me. Like I said before, I'm not sure I want to pursue writing as a career unless I go into sports journalism, but I've been writing constantly on RPG's and such since I was 11. I first started writing serious poetry when I was 13, although it paled in comparison to what I write now. Its hard, but I'll say 13-14.

[Carraka]

April 3rd, 2005.

I was a Neopets roleplayer back then, and an elaborate character background turned into a brilliant plot. (It turned out not to be so brilliant, but at least it wasn't cliche.) Anyway, I spent the next two years trying to write my first novel, and when I finished it, I decided it was horrible. Then I spent a year or so writing and discarding first pages. I also tried to rewrite my first novel, but I've given up.

So now it's EC. Who knows where my writing career will take me next? Plop!

[Zaphkiel]

I took it seriously three years ago

[random_writer]

I just began taking it seriously last...November, maybe? When my mom and dad split up. I started writing, and it (IT. That's what I'll call it.) never got finished. I still have the original documents, so I may attempt to salvage it someday. At the moment though, my computer keys are screwed up, so I can't even get to my documents. :( It isn't fun, because I was finally getting into my groove with 'Sense.'

I'm going to do a little shameless publicity here. If anyone would like to read 'Sense,' it is posted in the Members-Only Stories forum, and constructive criticism is needed...

Sorry about that. :D

[Phantom]

I can give a date also December 12 of last year(2007). Someone(WITHOUT PERMISSION) read through my story book.

[DreamChaser]

This is my first year of taking writing seriously....but I think that since I'm only 12 and on this site it counts for something....

[Simmi]

I started taking writing seriously at 9-10... I was really into writing, plus my teacher was the one who kept me going so I took it seriously from then on.

[Melo]

I got a lot of encouragement from my mom really early on, so I took it pretty seriously from the beginning. I was looking for publishers at nine. Even though what I was writing was absolutely horrific. The plot was amazing back then and the characters had depth and I had sequals coming out all over the place but... you know... you grow older, and you start to realize that "Gosh, I sucked back then."

[Inkweaver]

I first got started with by best friend. We were reading the Edge Chronicles together in fourth or fifth grade. He gave up soon after, on both writing and the Edge Chronicles. I still do both! It was really my fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Scott, that brought up "publishing" and that really sparked the whole mess.

[Ace-Darkeyes]

I have been telling myself stories since I was 12 but I hated writing them down because my spelling was horrific and kept thinking I would wait until I got better before starting but when I was 15 I decided I didn't care and went ahead and began writing and have not stopped since :) (my spelling is a whole lot better now :P)

[FayGee]

I love writing but I don't take it seriously.

[dragonheart]

I have been writing for two years but I've only writen 12 pages. :blush: I'm extra serious about it though because I plan to make a living out of it.

[Clawfire]

When I was 7-8 Years old I started thinking of becoming a part time author and that Idea's stuck to me for now...

[wutheringheights]

I love writing, but it's still just something to do for fun right now. I've thought about publishing, but I don't think I have the confidence to do that yet.

[umbreon2000]

I wrote my first full novel (though it really DID suck) when I was seven but I had started writing it when I was six. I've always wanted to be a writer :)

[snow_yuki]

I took writing English novels and stories seriously when I was fourteen.

[Schweet-T]

I'd probably say around 13-14. There was a girl I liked, and I wrote her poems. She still has them, actually. XD

[rania]

At the age of fifteen, when I'd written my first short story and my friends said that I should develop it into a novel. I'm still working on it :D

[thekingsguard]

I've wanted to write since the third grade. Didn't get good at it until aorund the time I was finishing high school. Didn't take it seriously until I started my blog, and got involved in freelance writing.

[Rurikredwolf]

I started to take it seriously after I reached the end of my first series, when I was 15. I loved how I felt at the end and I immediately started on the sequel. This was about three years ago and I remade the series with The Ceremony, which I started to post on here.

But although I want to become an author, I don't want it to be less fun. Hence why I came here instead of going to a creative writing class in college.