I was tagged by the heckin beautiful @bennyhargreeves!! Thank you love!!! ✨
Rules: Tell the story of when/why you started writing. It could be a few sentences, it could be an essay, however much you would like to share :) can include pictures, snippets, links, etc. It doesn’t matter if you’ve written one word or a thousand, you’re a writer! All writers start somewhere :)
Tagging: @pen-in-hand, @lielith, @fairylightsandthings and anybody else who would like to do this (but you don’t have to if you don’t wanna!! <3)
I used to make up stories using my stuffed animals, I just never wrote it down, if that counts?? I think that sparked my love of storytelling. XD I always wanted to be a writer, but one little fact about me is I. fucking. HATE. writing by hand. Still do. Good god. It is the bane of my existence. No matter how much I practice, my handwriting is so bad even I can’t read it most of the time (it legit hasn’t changed since first grade lmaooo), and it makes my hand hurt and takes way too long so lots of my thoughts get away from me while I write. The only thing I wrote that I remember from back then is BY FAR my favourite/best OC ever. He’s an ant. His name is T. I named him that because I couldn’t be bothered writing any longer name by hand. I love him. 11/10 good boi created by the world’s laziest 5 year old.
(^Artist’s impression of The Good Boi.)
When I was around nine my tiny peanut brain realized that hey, maybe there’s a way to write on the computer (duh) and that’s when my Official Writing Journey began. I wrote a lot of super shitty Warriors fanfiction before I even knew what fanfiction was because that was my baby hyperfixation, and a lot of short “stories” (the first chapter of a story which I then abandoned to fill up my writing folder) about dogs and fantasy because I love dogs and fantasy. Then I delved into Lord of the Rings fanfiction when I was around 14 and honestly that’s still some of the best writing I’ve ever done I think. That was my peak. (Also when I realized I love making OCs too much. XD)
Then I got in an abusive relationship and that kind of killed my writing potential and self esteem lmao. I poured all my writing and inspiration into her to make her happy and by the time I ended it it was like my writing well had dried up. That was like, what, three years ago now?? and it still isn’t back to normal. Writing still makes me happy and I love my babies but it’s so. so exhausting. I don’t really know what to do but I do know I’ll be a writer forever no matter what so I’m not giving up. Yea. Happy ending. 👉😁👉
