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How did you get started in writing?

Prompt created by yours truly. 
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I’d love read your responses.

In grade school, I was writing nightly in my diary about the handsome boys who would never ever look at me because I was fucking hideous with glasses and braces. It was rather pathetic, but what can I say? I was just a kid then…

Moving onto junior high, in a creative writing class where every day, we were supposed to write a short story within ten minutes. Some of them were genuine bangers while the others were major flops.

Junior year in high school, I was an associate editor for the yearbook. When I was a senior in high school I became the academics editor. The editor-in-chief started referring to me as “my pages are perfect”. I had issues. Big time. Being a perfectionist, I didn’t want anyone else touching my work because they weren’t going to do it right or the way I want it done. I was the photo editor for everything academics-related and it had to be laid out just right. I’d take the school computer home if I ran out of time on campus, just to get the finishing touches looking flawless.

I also had eight associate editors underneath me and it was like herding cats. My job was to make sure that they had all their stories before the deadlines, keep their pages looking uniform, and make sure everything looked great. Not only that, I had my own stories that I had to write, which included interviewing school faculty and students. I had to make riveting stories about academics and it wasn’t easy because I’m an introvert. But nevertheless, I did it.

At seventeen years old, I started uni and began blogging. Bruh, I wrote about EVERY damn thing. The debauchery, the shenanigans, the trysts, the drunken stupors, the friendships that felt like lifelines and the ones that dissipated faster than I could click “publish”. I also wrote about abandonment, figuring myself out and where I was headed, along with the twenty plus times I relocated over the years.

I took a hiatus for a couple of years though from writing. I was going through breakup and after breakup and family and friends were dying left and right; it felt like my wounds were reopening whenever I sat in front of my computer to type a post. It wasn’t a good time for me and writing no longer made me happy. In fact, it felt more like a chore… so I took a break.

Two years ago, I’m back to blogging… for better or for worse.

So… how did you get started?