You do not need to know how to write to write your first story

I was about six years old. I could read well at that time but I could not write. My grandfather had a mechanical typewriter and I was allowed to use it. It was like a quest each time to find a needed letter on the keyboard! And one day I read a pictured book about large cats: lion, tiger, lynx, and others.

Well, I liked the book, I liked the cats, and I wrote a story about them. Unfortunately, I do not have this story under my eyes now, but it was about Panther and Lion and their family: each time Lion went hunting and then returned home he found a new child near his wife, and each time it was of different species: leopard, jaguar, lynx... I can imagine now how the story looked liked from the adult's point of view, but it had nothing like this in it. I just tried to imagine beautiful loving and large family (both in words of children amount and cats' size) and mention as many types of cats as I knew so far.

Since then I have had different writing experience. I wrote verses as many fifteen years old girls, I earned money as an observer of computer games in magazine, from time to time when I write long posts on Facebook I get reactions like "you can write well" from people who mainly do not know about my writing past. But I never thought that I would ever write in English (as it is not my first language). But I started to do it here: on Vocal. I started to do it just for myself: to get distraction by participating in challenges, and to see where my mind can bring me by writing on different topics. And to some of my friends really liked those writings.