But the Narrator is still unable to start writing seriously.

It took Laura 25 years to begin writing seriously because of her father's death.

By then, I'd been writing seriously for seven years.

It was here that she began to write seriously.

Rozgonyi wrote seriously for the first time in August 2001.

Yes, quite right: who would take this kind of writing seriously?

She began writing seriously for children in her 30s.

But, of course, if you wanted to write seriously, then the taboos were difficult to avoid.

While living in a $300-a-month house, he began "to write and drink seriously."

He took up writing seriously while he was in his degree final year.