I'm a naturally imaginative person and always wanted to do something creative. However from an early age I found many doors being slammed shut by teachers. I think when I was quite small my first love was music, but when I tried to get a violin in school the tutor decided I didn't have an ear for it. *huffs*
Back then I believe I could have been a poet because I had a certain flair, but it was not something that I maintained. My later English classes didn't really cover writing poetry, just deconstructing it. I just stopped writing it, say about aged 10, and never went back. It's not something I can do now; I'm competent on a technical level but extremely poor imaginatively wise.
Art was another one. I always enjoyed it, especially comics. I was inspired by the comic 2000AD and specifically the series
The Ballad of Halo Jones. But again, art was very basic in junior school. I enjoyed painting and drawing but there was no real guiding hand by a properly trained art teacher so I never really got any discipline in it. I could do basic portraits and some excellent copy work but when I try to draw on my own I can't even get basic stick figures right. I had once dreamed of writing and drawing my own comic but my art skills just were not up to it.
So I ended up writing. ^^
I quickly learned that I didn't need any special equipment to write prose. I had always shown flashes of it in school, but things were so rigid in there I never really had a chance to write creatively, at least not from a fiction stand point even though my teacher knew I had talent.
Then later on when I was on a youth training scheme (yeah, right, thanks for that Maggie

) I was doing lots of computer office 'work'. I got so insanely bored with it that I started writing one day. No plot, no plan, just started writing. Got about 60 pages in two months before the idea fizzled out, but everyone was highly impressed with what I did.
After I left the course I lost computer access and knew because I was a chopper and changer it would be futile for someone like me to write by hand. I had to wait until returning to college in prep for university about 6 years later before I could think about going back to writing creatively, but I hadn't been idle as hardly a day went by when I didn't think about my first story and how I'd love to finish it.
I tried to reinvent that story several times, but the lack of planning and the cliche that underlied it simply made it impossible. Fortunately I did creative writing at degree level in John Moores University, so I've been able to develop my skills and apply them to my new projects.
Gosh that was a mini autobiography XD