When did you start writing literature?

[Kyriakos]

Just a poll about this question. I wrote my first short story from 3 am to 6 am one Sunday morning after having read a book of H.P.Lovecraft's works. I was 17 at the time.

[aoveran]

Uh, when you say "literature," are you talking a full short story/novel/poetry collection, ready to be edited/published?

Because I think if I rummage through some boxes downstairs, I think the Language Arts teachers at my elementary school got a kick out of having us kids draw and write our own little picture books for homework. Don't know if that counts, though. :D

[Delta40]

ha ha and I had to write 'The 100 Demons' many times for talking too much!

[gruntingslime]

During elementary school I believe I only wrote for school assignments but took a lot of liberties with them. I also made comics and improvised stories aloud to some other kids. I think towards the end of elementary I believed I felt some deeper connection to creative work, making a movie in a class and writing and reading aloud my stories to the class. I remember writing about a page or so then hiding away and years later finding it again. I remember reading it and thinking it was utterly worthless...

When I was 16, I had just left high school (after grade 11), I began to feel like I wanted to write and conceptualize as a deeper focus and I've been doing it ever since.

[Lokasenna]

Highschool, but looking back on my efforts then fills me with mortification... ah, so bad...

[Kyriakos]

Yeah, mine were bad at the time too, although the very first one was a lot better than what came immediately afterwards, probably because i was writing without being mindful of what later on i thought (falsely) that i should write.

[Tournesol]

Uh, when you say "literature," are you talking a full short story/novel/poetry collection, ready to be edited/published?

Because I think if I rummage through some boxes downstairs, I think the Language Arts teachers at my elementary school got a kick out of having us kids draw and write our own little picture books for homework. Don't know if that counts, though. :D

Of course they count!

That creativity that comes out at such a tender age is the true reflection of the artist's abilities: because at that age the writer has less stock knowledge to work from: the work that is produced is truly unique!

And as such it must be considered as literature, even revered!