How long have you been writing, and what was your motivation to do so?

I have always loved to read and as a teenager one of my dreams was to write a book one day. I would try and write poetry or song lyrics but never thought it was good. As you go thru life the road will take detours and before you know it your in your 40's or 50's and you feel you have nothing to show for all those years. My turning point for me was surviving 9/11. That is when I realized I need to do something with my life because you never know when your time on this earth will be over. I started by writing my story in surviving 9/11 and then from that I started writing poetry again. Many were published online and one was published in a book of poetry with many other poets. I'm now in middle of writing a book that I hope to one day get published. Take care and have a great weekend!

You discussion got me to thinking. I think, I have been writing since forever. . Just kidding.. I only realized that I love writing when I decided to go for it seriously. My motivation came from, most definitely, the Palgrave's book of poetry which I used to carry with me every where. I am not much for a good writer though. But I love it just for the sake of it. Do you write elsewhere as well?

I have been writing for wo 20 years. I used to write little short stories for my second grade class and read them to them. It was fun, then I started writing poetry and working on a few short stories again and a book. I love writing whatever pops into my head I write.

Hello my friend Karen Ji, I was a taecher, and during my school days, I used to write some poems in my mother tongue. After my hubby left and he motivated, I keep writing under his guidance. I started writing recently. But mu hubby writes plenty. I am very fond of reading, every night I read and then go to sleep.ay god bless You and have a great time.

Hi Karen....I also enjoy reading. I read just about any type of book except horror or science fiction. I believe you can get so engrossed in a book and the story you are reading that you can actually picture yourself crawling inside that book and becoming a part of it. As far as writing....I never did much of it until a few months ago becasue I guess I just never took the time to try and put my thoughts and feelings down on paper. Now that I have the time to do so I never shut up...lol flutterby

i have been keeping the habit of writing diary since the age of 15,that was my student age,there was so much emotion i need to take out,i found that i would feel better if i noted it down,i learnt to talk with myself,there are so much word in diary which noted my youth,i think i will be keeping this habit forever,

I've been writing since I was eleven. I've loved books since I was four. Writing is for my sanity, it's the artform I'm best at. It's also the truest means of expression available to me. It also keeps my mind sharp and active. My motivation? It's my life. I don't need much better motivation than that. I've been writing for...oh, seven years now. In just six months, I'll have been writing for eight. ...I never thought of that before. In 2012 I'll have been writing for a decade. Wow.

i have been writing on and off since i was a young girl. i did write professionally several years ago and enjoyed it very much. it was back in the day when the internet was new and online writers got paid very well. i used to get over $10 for 500 words and now you are lucky if you get one or 2 dollars!

I am not much of a writer, my thoughts are always getting ahead of my writings. this causes me to stumble around and fall all over my words.

I LOVE WRITING,when i'm in middle school after the age of 12,i wrote my first novel and the second and so on.why?Because the imagine in my mind drive me to write. And when i was 15 in high school,i began to write poem.Perhaps the poem was not very perfect,but they express my emotion with my mom and the unrequited love for a boy.That feeling force me to write.

I started writing poetry when I was 8. I happened to stumble across an activity in my favorite magazine, Zoobooks (I was an animal freak), that challenged the reader to write a poem about Polar Bears. So I did. "Polar bears hunt in water // and when they find their prey // they go on land so that they can // have a very happy day, hey!". It makes me giggle every time I think about it now, but I was so very proud of it back then and my mother even called my grandparents to brag. xD As for fiction writing, I guess I've been doing some form of that on and off since I learned how to write. I have one of my very first stories from when I was 3 about a baby toad that didn't listen to his parents. I don't know where it is now, but it's in safe storage (meaning I won't find it for another 50 years, I'm sure). So yeah. I don't know why I started writing, but I've always really enjoyed it and I've been at it seriously now for about 6 years I think. Though I've been doing it for fun for much longer than that. ^_^

I am 21 now and I have been writing since 16 and reading since 6 or 7 :) My interest in writing and entrepreneurship has made me start a digital magazine for aspiring writers which goes by the name I, the Writer (http://ithewriter.com) English being my second language, has always been my passion!