When did you know you wanted to pursue writing?
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Re: When did you know you wanted to pursue writing?
In college I created, wrote, edited an "underground" newsletter that had the dean of students in an uproar. It was never discovered who was the phantom writer, ha ha.
Later I strung for a newspaper and the AP, and wrote "expose" articles for a local monthly magazine (fake car repair shops, bad restaurants, etc).
Then I continued and have done so to this day, writing magazine articles, book & movie reviews, essays, short stories, and most recently, a series of modern American private detective novels.
Most of this hasn't "paid the light bill" and my actual "day job" career began as a research chemist and then into computers, later as a consultant for engineering specifications for mostly safety and environmental documentation for "big oil" deepwater exploration and drilling. Which certainly paid the rent and of course, a lot more. But it was still writing in a way. Luckily I was able to mix my technical knowhow and literary skills, a very nice thing to do.
But yeah, I've written all my life, still write (and read) voraciously.
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So I started writing Forever Twelve that night. Here I am still writing (its sequel).
To back up the train, I grew up keeping diaries in which I narrated my life rather than just writing my emotions, or whatever. I practiced making my life seem like a story with dialogue and such. But I never wrote any fiction.
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Unfortunately for me, my desire to write started at age 8.... and I'm pretty sure my writing ability hasn't improved at all since then.