My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.
In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. It was a nonfiction book about women pirates - 'Pirates in Petticoats.' After that, I was a book writer for good.
I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.
I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.
I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.