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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I began writing fictional stories and little screenplays when I was in fifth grade.
At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
I was never forced to write. At least, I was never forced or even encouraged to write fiction. Creative writing wasn't in the curriculum at my school when I was in sixth grade.
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've been writing stories, in one form or another, since I was a kid.
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 started writing stories in sixth grade. But writing wasn't cool, like being good at sports, or being part of the in crowd, or winning fights on the playground.
Since childhood, I wrote a lot of fiction, a lot of stories, but I most loved writing essays.
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.