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The phrase "actually started writing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate the moment when someone began the act of writing, often in a context where there was some prior hesitation or delay.
Example: "After weeks of planning, I finally actually started writing my novel yesterday."
Alternatives: "truly began writing" or "really commenced writing".
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I actually started writing in Spanish only about four years ago.
I actually started writing Lucas before Martyn Pig was published, so I was still an unpublished author at the time.
When asked about a Conchords movie in an Indiewire interview, Clement said: "We have actually started writing one.
In his last years Cervantes mentioned several works that apparently did not get as far as the printing press, if indeed he ever actually started writing them.
During that summer of 1859, once he actually started writing the novel, Turgenev became so absorbed that anything that got in the way upset him.
"So we actually started writing in a pretty traditional way.
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When the time came to actually start writing a book, I realized that no one had ever written a book just about bride dolls, which surprised me.
And then I kept trying to turn it into a plot and it was the plotting that I found really hard so I didn't actually start writing it until a few months after Solitaire came out," she says.
There will be a narrative germ at or near the start (as it might be, "Tell story of Thatcher boom years from the inside"), but the shaping of the story comes last in the planning, and it's only when I've got that clear that I'll actually start writing (though by that stage I will probably have hundreds of pages of notes, thousands of accumulated details to be worked in).
But I didn't actually start writing until high school.
A page-one rewrite could take Harold several months from the point at which he actually starts writing the script.
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