Omg thank you!! (⁠≧⁠▽⁠≦⁠)
Oh, great questions! Let's see... I always admired writers in general and later when I got into fandoms fanfic writers especially because they give us this wonderful place to escape reality with the characters we love so much.
Secretly, I wanted to do the same but never had the courage to write anything because I simply didn't have any ideas. Or that's what I told myself since, in truth, I was afraid to embarrass myself haha
(Also, I had some pretty mean teachers in school who told me I wrote horribly and that stuck with me for a very long time.)
Then I made a friend in uni and I explained them about my writing trauma/aspiration. They looked at me confused and said: if you wanna write just do it. That was one of the pushes I needed. Of course, I didn't believe it at first. It took some internal struggling but at the glorious age of 20+ I wrote my first fic. It's somewhere lost on FanfictionNet now haha but after that, I haven't written much until Genshin pushed me down a rabbit hole and I'm still falling. That is to say I'm writing more focused about three years now. So, I guess you could say I'm still pretty new to writing xD