Catching up with #WritingWonders, 'cause I finally got access to my backups and've spent the last week obsessed with rsync.
July 13: When did you start writing and what inspired you?
Writing, about ten years ago now, mostly because my lovely wife kept looking at my piles of world-notes and telling me I really ought to actually _write_ something in it. Start small, see where it goes. And wouldn't stop telling me that until I actually got off my ass and did it.
I regret nothing.
@cerebrate I'd count your WGP stuff as writing, if less formal.
Hsst! Please to not be mentioning old shame!
(Not the writing *there*, just the *writing* there. Gods, I produced some badly-constructed cringy shit in those days.)
But, yeah, maybe. Although writing as a dialogue feels very different from writing as a monologue, at least to me.
@cerebrate eh, first steps are always faltering, but I haven't figured out a way to go straight to millionth steps.
And yes, very different dynamic, but I think it had its advantages for learning things like characterisation vs. As You Know, Bob styles of writing.