I've been a writer for a majority of my life, with actual storytelling starting to fruition for me around the fifth grade.  It was there that I wrote a short story called Gold Whisker, which wasn't that well written at the time.  However, the experience of actually writing a full story would help me in the future.  In the seventh grade, I started to create my own characters, and used them for a variety of stories that weren't great but worth mentioning.  The ninth grade was when things got serious, once I became a member for my school's Author's Book Club.  My first real good examples of writing were born there, especially this one story I wrote about some crazy taxi driver.  Tenth grade was when this account came into existence and the rest is history.  (Yeah, my writing backstory is pretty lame, but that is seriously how I ended up a Watt Pad writer.)