I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.
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I started writing stories in my spare time.
I've been writing stories, in one form or another, since I was a kid.
I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
I have written stories since I was a child.
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
I'd been writing stories since I was a child. I wrote little books for my mom and bound them myself with needle and thread. Mostly, they were about my pets.
I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.
I used to write stories. Handwriting stories in school were a big deal for me. That's kind of what I did.
I considered that I had to write stories about the people I had met, with whom I'd worked, the history of my books - just in case I up and die.
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.