This question was asked by  ivyB4winter .

So I know everyone has like, really emotional or thoughtful stories of how they were inspired to write. Mine is like really stupid.

So it started in 2020 when I first found out about the glorious world of e-books. I was ecstatic. I used to read all the damn time, I finished the Harry Potter series in a day. I was speedrunning my life like no other.

It was wonderful.

But then after I had successfully read all the books Google could tell and other recommendations as well, I could finally see the repetition of tropes. Not to say I didn't like it, but I wanted something new. And the definition of new, for me, was really abstract at that point.

Nothing fit my taste anymore and one day I got so desperate I found myself sitting in front of an empty Word document and I wrote a draft of my first original story.

But it wasn't over yet. I wrote it out and then went to edit it again and again and again but never was satisfied. Soon my boards came and I had to drop the idea.

Until.

20th Jan 2022, I decided to finally look up what is the hype about this boyband BTS.
21st Jan 2022, I had already transformed into an ARMY.
23rd Jan 2022, I listened to their entire discography.

A few days later I discovered fanfictions. And oh god they were so cringe. I thought if this is what it has come to I am never going to read fanfictions again, but then I found Ao3 and Wattpad.

10th Feb 2022, I joined Wattpad.

It was beautiful! The fanfictions I found here were so good I could cry. I binge-read them all, it was a new world.

And then, simply out of boredom, on 22nd March 2022, I started writing "Broken" and it has led to a very unexpected chain of events that made me write this answer.