The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
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I wrote my first story when I was six or seven.
I started writing stories when I was six years old. I was a very shy kid, extremely shy, and I had a fabulous first-grade teacher who told me to write.
I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old.
I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.
The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when our teacher Mrs. Crandall gave us an extended period of time to write a long story. I loved doing it. I started working seriously at becoming a writer when I was seventeen.
I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books until I was 41 years old.
I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.
The move to creating stories was a natural progression for me, but the most pivotal time was probably in 6th grade: That year, a friend introduced me to the stories of Ray Bradbury, and a student teacher introduced me to creative writing.
Fiction came quite a while later. I began with short stories and fiction for children.
The first story I can remember writing, that I truly set down on paper, was a Christmas story that I wrote when I was ten years old.