At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I tried writing fiction as a little kid, but had a teacher humiliate me, so didn't write again until I was a senior in college.
I worked as an actor for many years. Then I segued to some non-fiction writing.
Early on, I tried fiction, but I wasn't very good at it. I wrote a very bad novel that is thankfully sitting in a drawer somewhere.
I did try to write stories in college because I was interested in writing, and I was interested in the sound of language, but I was just no good at narrative and at fiction.
There's always a bit of fiction in everything that I write.
For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction was to write fiction. But I was much less suited for it. I always struggled to figure out what people were saying or doing in a particular moment.
Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.
When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.