Emilyn wrote:
It began on a Christmas night when I was five or six, I think. It was before we left to go to a Christmas party, and I didn't have a gift to give anyone.
I sat down with a pile of small squares of paper a few inches tall and wide, and I drew pictures telling a story of a hero saving a princess(lol).
I stapled the pages together with my Mom's help and brought it to the party and gave it to a girl a little older than me.
After that I began drawing more pictures that told stories, stapling them together into little books. Now my drawings weren't that great. lol, they were like stick figures wearing clothes, and then I would color them afterwards.
My mom would write the words for me as I dictated them to her, sometimes on one side of the page, the picture on the other page.
When I got to be ten, I started typing stories into the computer(but I never finished them, lol).
Then I got more serious about writing around eleven or twelve, after I had read my first favorite fantasy books(The door Within Trilogy).
And now I'm fourteen(almost fifteen), working hard on my books.
Minus the Christmas present, that sounds so much like how I got started writing! The dictating, the pictures, the never finished books - same ages even!
It's a great way to start, isn't it?
