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Hello all.
I'm 32 and from Australia. I've been interested in writing since I could pick up a pen, and started off very young writing poetry and short stories; mainly fantasy.

I wrote my first 'novel' when I was 14, but I threw it out when I decided you couldn't be a writer for a career, and dumped my writing folder in the trash.

I've started probably fifty+ stories, but I have a real issue with sticking with it, so none are complete or even close to completion.

I was recently inspired to really attempt to get a novel completed and published after reading a certain very popular book which has now been turned into a movie. After reading it ( and only enjoying the first four chapters) I immediately thought, 'If this can be a best seller, then so can anything I could write'. So I am giving it another try.

Paragraphic said:

Welcome to Absolute Write! And welcome back to writing!

I was around that age when some other kid tried to tell me I couldn't make a career out of writing. So far she's been right but until recently I was more into writing for writing than writing for a career anyway. I can't imagine not writing for so long! Do you still have all of your old plot ideas and story starters or are you starting from scratch? What's it like to start again? Do you write the same genre you were interested in as a kid?

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Yes I really didn't write at all for around 15 years. I wrote a fan fiction for a video game when I was in my early twenties, but I abandoned that pretty quickly. I started writing fan fiction again two years ago and have now gone back to original work.

When I was younger I was a fan of Tolkein and C.S. Lewis, so all my work was fantasy. But the novel I completed in my teen years was a thriller.

These days I still write a bit of fantasy, but I am currently working on an erotic fic. It seems to be the in thing at the moment