Many of us came out of the womb holding a pencil. In other words, we have always known we were called to write. Some may have experienced a more gradual awareness. Others may have just woken up one day with a burning desire in their hearts to write a book.
Which category do you fall under? When did the writing bug bite? When did you discover your passion for writing?
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I got bit by the writing bug when I was young. I wanted to be a cartoonist, idolizing my heroes Walt Disney and Charles Schulz. My drawings lacked creativity, but I had some whopper stories. I soon discovered I could write better than I could draw. Then, after coming to know the Lord, I wanted to use that talent for Him.
I’ve always loved books. I don’t remember not being able to read.
When I was in 6th grade, Kathryn Worth, the author of <i< The Middle Button and They Loved to Laugh visited our school. It was the first time I realized that real people WROTE books.
I continued to devour every book I could find, but it wasn’t until my senior year in high school that I discovered that I loved to write.
I was in a new school and only needed a couple credits to graduate, (and didn’t care for math or science) so I fill my schedule with language. I studied French and literature and journalism.
In my creative writing class, Mr. Harriman often didn’t even give us a topic. His only requirement was to write for the whole class. Later, we critiqued each other’s work. It was a great place for a troubled teenagers to express thoughts and emotions. That’s when the writing bug got under my skin.
Now that my children are grown, I can write, write, write!
I wrote my first story when I was about seven, and my first poem about the same time. Thankfully, there are no copies of those early works in existence.
I got the writing bug from my mother who often wrote poems and short stories, mostly to entertain herself and her children. A composer wrote a melody and an arrangement for a poem of hers, and a publisher was considering it, but the deal fell through.
I am one of those people who would write even if no one wanted to read the results;.
My first ‘bite’ was when I was in grade school and the teacher told us to use our spelling words to write a story.
I invented a giant elephant who wore tennis shoes as my weekly character. “Her” exploits entertained my classmates AND my teachers from 4-6th grades!
When everyone laughed, I discovered the power and influence of ‘words’ to make people feel good and I’ve been writing ever since!
I’m a really late bloomer! I only journaled for my own eyes until a life storm blew in and knocked me off my feet. In the middle of a pit moment, God told me to write about it. I argued for two weeks, and out of frustration, picked up a pen and paper and wrote for seven hours straight. That was 4 years ago and I have loved writing ever since. I started my blog 8 months ago and the experience has been such a blessing! I have 3 devotional books and working on a memoir.
Early. When I was a kid I used to sit at my blackboard in the kitchen and draw and tell myself stories. Author of Shadowed in Silk, A Twilight of the British Raj novel.
I think I always had the writing bug, I just didn’t know it. Writing was something I did without thinking- it came very easily and naturally to me. Even when at 18 when I went to college, I took an English major without much thought.
For some strange reason though, it took me more than a decade to realize that “Hey! I should be a writer!”. Last year I left a secure job to do just that.
I love it, and don’t regret it at all. The biggest challenge is making financial ends meet as I am not getting paid very well yet… but I look at it as starting a new business. It takes some time to build it into something flourishing.
My writing bug started when I was young but not developed until I was older. I wrote mostly poetry when I was young and attempted song lyrics but couldn’t quite get the hang of it. So instead, I had always had the desire to write a book but never attempted it until I was greatly ill. I was almost bedbound for a while and my desire came back to begin what I set out to do as a child. Funny how time does that.
Early on in my elementary school days, I had no problem getting A’s for writing what was then dubbed “compositions.” In sixth grade I actually won an award for writing about Theodore Roosevelt. When my english teacher chose me as editor of my elementary school newspaper, The writing bug bit, and left me with an incurable disease.
That “T” that should be a “t” is killing me.
I have always loved to read – and enjoyed writing from when I was in junior high, I’d say. Didn”t know I wanted to BE a writer until my 20′s though.
There are a few things I have always known. The first is that Jesus loves me. Second, that He had a job for me and third, that words were God’s special gift for me. Imagine my surprise when I realized Jesus is the “Word”.
So John 1:1 has special meaning for me.
This verse is also the very reason I fell in love with the spanish language (although I speak it very badly, pride is such an ugly roadblock).
The word for “Word” used here in the spanish bible is “verbo” which means action word.
That is what Christ has been for me all of my life, the very action of my being, since as long as I have memory.
Oh yes, and writing tambien!