diary, novella, backstory for the writer asks plsss
i answered novella hereĀ and diary here!Ā
backstory: how did you come to love writing?Ā
it all started when i learned to read (stick with me here)
my parents got me this... video game, i guess, that taught me how to read when i was four. and i absolutely adoredĀ this thing. as soon as i finished it, i wanted to do it again. when my little sister came upon her time to learn how to read, she wasnāt as huge a fan, and i offered to finish the thing forĀ her. so, i loved reading.
every book i held in my hand i devoured (with my eyes. i didnāt eat books). i read voraciously for my entire elementary school career, and never stopped. the natural progression was telling my own stories -- i would tell my sister stories when we were bored, make up on the fly and with absolutely no coherence whatsoever. but i loved telling stories. i had multiple journals and diaries all throughout my childhood, and i wrote down everything from what i did for recess to how my visit to my grandparentās house went.Ā
when i learned thatĀ āhey. i can write down my fake stories, tooā i was already gone. boom. the addiction began right there.Ā
i think my firstĀ ārealā story i ever wrote was a fan fiction from one of my favorite books (Eragon,Ā love u bby), and from there it expanded into writing my own stories with characters and plots, writing poetry, writing short stories, and...
the rest, as they say, is history.Ā