That's a very good idea eric.i don't really remember how it happened... i only remember taking a pen & a piece of paper, then putting words together. It was something like 6 years ago. It was just before my departure to the big island of hawai'i, i had just become fruitarian & my sensitivity was huge... i thought it would be a nice way to let it out of me.
As a child i was a lot into writting stories. i had a huge imagination, that i actually slowly lost.
What about others? What happened to you?
Yeah, good idea! 
Well, I've always been good at writing things for cards and stuff.. people have told me I should work for Hallmark. 
But, I didn't start really writing, until around 2001. Not exactly sure how it happened, but I started getting depressed and angry about the state of the world and things. Also I was lonely, even though married.. (I divorced her finally, btw) so.. I started writing, as thoughts and ideas came into my head. About 2 or 3 years ago, I got a theme in my head and wrote 7 pages in about 15 minutes. It's weird, but cool.. how all of a sudden it can just pour out like that.
) so, I always carry a pen and my paper along. but, mostly, it's when I'm alone, after some thinking about things that happened, are happening, might happen. .sometimes even in the middle of the night, suddenly just wake up and feel that something came inside of me, and it has to get out. 
Hi~Everyone~
For one it is when I went on a Travel Group in Grade 7 to Montreal, I kept a journel.
To this day I do keep a journel.
I even took a feather and nib and wrote with ink from a jar...it worked quite well~
Hi everyone, I am new to the group but have wanted a place to get feedback on some of my newer writing without fear of it being taken. I was posting on a poetry site a couple years back, but there was too many people getting their work stolen, so i deleted all my stuff from there. I hope I won't hear that here. I have found Care2 to overall be a safe place.
As far as why I write, that has changed over the years. I started at age 13 and am almost 31 and have been writing continuously the whole time. I write poetry & short stories, fiction, non-fiction, lyrics, letters, opinions, quoteable insights, blogs, diaries, anything I feel like writing at the time. I have tried writing a novel but found it too time consuming and I had difficulty keeping up with my own story. So I guess the shorter stuff is for me.
I started writing because of the traumatic events of my childhood, continued through my teen years for the same reason. I soon realized that I could even write about the happy things in life. Then, as an adult, I sought out to educate myself in poetic styles and currently challenge myself to write more and more fiction. I guess as a means of escape from everyday life. It's nice to be in my own world for how ever long it takes me to write a piece.
I am interested in starting or joining a writers group in my area. I am in the Hampton Roads area of VA. If anyone knows of a group in the area, or would like to help me start a group, please contact me.
Annabel Lee
g'day Eric and Pelz ~ i waz always writing wild n crazy stories for english composition at school, mostly horrorshow stuff like zombies n ghouls and vampires which used to blow the teacher out, but she still gave me top markz hehe ~ but my real writing came when i waz a young actor in theatre, tv, and films ~ the movies were either shithouse b grade films or mostly bad scripts ~ so here i waz unhappy bout working in quirky little films without any creativity or art ~ so i wrote a script, 'Summer City' and co-produced the film with a mate who iz now a bigtime prducer, bout 4 young surfers on a bucks weekend surfing, it turns into a bit of horror show ~ and it waz Mel Gibson's first film and his character waz blasted with a shotgun so here waz Mel laying there with all blood and guts hanging out hehe ~ actually he got my role coz my arms are covered in tattoos, and surfers in those days didnt really have tat, except me ~ so i ended up playing a smaller part ~ thatz when i began writing scripts, did another horror called 'Fatal Bond' and we brought Linda Blair over from the US to play the lead female role ~ my scripts are basically on the shelf now, though an agent has them on the market, ones on Quentin Tarentino's desk, and i'm still waiting for the b%&^%$%'s call ~ therez copies of 2 of them in care2's the Doors group (jim Morrison) one's called 'The Real Deal', genre, cheech n chong meet Pulp Fiction, the other, 'The Lost Spirits', with zombies and the lot hehe ~ you're welcome to read them if you feel like a chuckle ~ now i write/direct and make activist politico-environmental video clips ~ adios amigos
When I was in third grade, I got a D in Conduct. 
Because I always got A's in everything else, both the classroom teacher/nun and my parents were concerned. After an intimate and fair meeting, in which I was included, it was determined by all - I simply had too much time on my hands. My work was finished too early and so I "chatted" or passed notes or whatever. And I was a very talented child who should be challenged a bit more, perhaps.
This nun, Sister______, recommended I begin writing plays for Holidays, since I had written a beautiful little one for an english assignment once in her class. And so I did. 
We actually staged them and performed them for the entire school and children's families, with proceeds from small donations going to Catholic charities for the underpriviledged. I wrote, directed and basically created everything of each play that year - 4 in total - and never felt better, more purposeful, or happy. 
That's how I started to write, to create in my life. Thanks for having such a wondrous group. We have lots to share and enjoy together!
Blissed be, Ani (Goddess at Play) 
I live in nature. That is true. More clear than pagan which originally meant the same. But I am not alikle to many pagans for I have had an intense gypsy education. A big factor in writing and telling stories for me
These stories from other members show how little people have ears for their stories.
just ronald
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In my early years my Frisian (Celtic) grandmother (Beppe) educated me. She read many books and was also a story teller. The most wonderful woman. And she read me aloud. The start of a language lover. That was till my 6th year
She died and we moved to an old city on the river Rhine and I have Celtic and gypsy genes.
There in a reacreation ground behind our house I met an old sailor who was also an old gypsy. And he connected me with the gypsies who came in the the summers and among that Group I was safe and at home very soon. I felt protected by them.
My whole life I am teased, a thin kid with round buttocks. Oh those older girls and now also women why always teasing me?
So also a big reason to live in a modern light weighted tent.
Cites are not safe for me. The nature smells of wet grass, of trees, of sometimes mud, of the sun and the wind. And for many an ideal body. In summer I wear long t-shirts with precious colors, deep red and marvelous green. So I can cover my front and my butts. I cities I wear a long mantle.
I could tell you gypsystories. With music and lights with a story teller and singing and the whole group of gypsies played then. That started for me when I was 7.
And for me it happened like the day of yesterday.
And those gypsy stories were full of wisdoms of life.
I now also read books about our history. For instance around 0 BC not the romans brought culture and met there barbarians. But their army was a horror in our countries, life was nothing for them, and the Celtic people they had the culture in those days. And where are the Celtic people now? Where are the gypsies now? Dispersed over the world?
ronald
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In my freshman year I took the fast track intro to English. I had to write an essay every week and sometimes I enjoyed it.
In the same year I somehow found A MacLeish 'Conquistador' in the library. (I must have been a wicked surfer even then.) This turned me on to poetry.
In these dreadful days I feel I have no time to read anything except Shakespeare and poetry.
I never got into creative writing. Mostly I like to think, and when I think something through it might be fun to write it down.
my mommy was a high school english teacher and she taught me to read and tried to teach me to write. it must have been a bad beginning tho because when they made me write in school i hated the way the letters looked and scribbled over them. my mommy took the scribbled over letters and put them in a scrapbook. i guess it made her proud.
after that i did math as much as possible until college when i began to enjoy my writing. it still was pretty stilted tho i think.
then about a year ago i did away with my superego, which was mostly my introjected mommy. since then my writing is much freeer and funnier, and i feel pretty good about it. for others i guess the super ego is more often the introjected daddy, and i guess thats why there is a streak of hostility to men in feminism. in any case i urge all to off the superego, and retrieve their wholeness.
it feels like being born again.
