The phrase "commenced writing" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the beginning of an activity or process, especially when talking about producing written work. For example, "After an hour of brainstorming ideas, I finally commenced writing my essay."
Stone has commenced writing the screenplay and Borman is fast-tracking it as a major European co-production to start filming before the end of the year.
A prolific author of stories, novels, plays and movie scripts, Sorokin commenced writing under Soviet censorship — winks and nods, breached taboos, underground circulation.
As Plutarch wrote during the reign of Trajan, "It was for the sake of others that I first commenced writing biographies; but I find myself proceeding and attaching myself to it for my own; the virtues of these great men serving me as a sort of looking glass, in which I may see how to adjust and adorn my own life".
He commenced writing his memoirs, which he promised would be "the million pound libel".
He commenced writing a blog in January 2003, providing voyeuristic insights into his reaction to Pattern Recognition, but abated in September of the same year owing to concerns that it might negatively affect his creative process.
While undergoing a music and management course at Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa in Cork, Flannery commenced writing the album that would become Evening Train, an eleven-track concept album about the exploits of two brothers.
Before interviews commenced, written informed consent was obtained from all participants.
(A Texas appellate judge once wrote that when Grigson appeared on the stand the defendant might as well "commence writing out his last will and testament").
While the current English Regents delineated its task fairly simply, the student could not commence writing until after plowing through, analyzing and sifting the main points from a cumbersome 1,400-word 1,400-wordeeped in technicarticleon and crammed with factsteeped
It may have been this experience which encouraged him to commence writing his first Études, (1829 32), exploring the capacities of his own instrument.
The author also said that when he goes to his desk each morning to commence writing, he thinks to himself: "Why am I doing this?
