A Need to Write

(How I Got into Writing) Answer to Fandomgirl360's Question

I have to ask, how did you get into writing? -- Fandomgirl360.

I was hoping someone would ask this. And the answer isn't some really impressive, cool story. I didn't discover writing was an escape and then decide to start writing. I didn't get the idea for my first story from some jaw dropping experience. It's kind of like when you're at church and you share your testimony and it's not one full of trials, hardships, and misery.

No.

I skipped Spanish Class.

Amazing, right?

I know it's pretty random and lame, but let me explain.

I had been really interested in Oneirology (The Scientific Study of Dreams), I had also been reading whole books in no more than three days.

I was taking a Spanish class at my friend's church on Wednesday nights. I started late and I was really behind. Plus the new shipment of textbooks had just come in, so I was even farther behind.

Now you have to understand my friend and I were the only teens in this class. Everyone else was forty and up. And they were so far ahead of us that the teacher was teaching the class in Spanish and the students were responding in Spanish. Meanwhile my friend and I didn't know many vocabulary words in Spanish.

Do you blame us that we skipped the second hour?

I had sheets for taking notes, and I just suddenly had the idea. So I wrote the first few pages. The story honestly came out from no where. It's about dreams, so the only thing that inspired it was my interest in them. Other than that I don't know where I got the idea.

I then typed up the pages and I decided to turn it into a full length novel after five pages.

That's how I started writing. Not the typical story. I like to say I didn't choose the writing life. Instead the writing life violently grabbed me and forced me to write. For more proof as to why that's true, I was always terrified of writing a novel because I thought it was impossible, so I shied away from it.

Hopefully that answer didn't bore you. Thanks for asking and feel free to ask more! (By the way, that friend then went on to take Spanish again and is now in year two of Spanish. We were both learning Latin at the time of that class. I decided to stick with Latin.)