Do You Remember When You Started Writing

I had dinner with an old friend this week. He wants to write a novel, has been writing professionally for a magazine, but he doesn't know where to start.

I don't remember that feeling. He seems to have a need to write, but it's nebulous, something he can't grasp. Vaguely, at the edge of my memory, I can remember the need to write, but as I recall, I always had an idea about what to write. I always knew I wanted to write romance, and I remember mostly always having an idea. Maybe I didn't, though.

Do you remember when you started? Did you always know just what you wanted to write?