I started writing pretty young, before the age of 10, but all my ideas were lifted from cartoons. I didn't get into writing as a teenager because all of the guides I found were for genre fiction or other types, and I still won't start writing until I read enough to find something I'd like to copy.

>>8074688
I wrote a story when I was 8 about a giant bumblebee chasing a little boy through a town because i figured out how to draw a bumblebee and it needed a story.

I won a national poetry competition at 7, stil my most proud achievement...

I never write. And I despise all professional writers.

Never really tried writing until this year, I'm 24 years old is it too late for me?

>>8075101
No, do you realize how old most authors are when they produce their significant works?

>>8074688
i've done some poems for my girlfriend (at age 21)
now i just write random scenes in a notebook while i piece together ideas for a novels id like to write

I have a few word documents of poetry, half finished short stories, and "essays" that I wrote when I was 16. Reading through them makes me cringe so hard I want to kill myself.

Kinda worried I will look back in five years on what I am writing now and feel the same way.