I'm one of those people who always wanted to be a writer, so I have a fair amount of juvenilia, though fortunately, I was too old for my juvenilia to be on the Internet.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Well, I always wanted to write from the time I was very little, and my mother encouraged me. She wrote a journal from the time she was 15 up until about the age of 76.
You can't be too old to be a writer, but you can definitely be too young!
My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old.
I've been writing since I was really young, so I considered myself a writer for a really long time.
I started my first novel when I was 10, and have produced thousands of pages of juvenilia since.
When I was about 14 or 15 I decided to become a writer and never for a moment since have I wanted to do anything else.
Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.
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 wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
I used to write at home, but it didn't ever occur to me to be a writer.