I have always been an avid reader. I love adventure/mystery and legal suspense novels. I first began to write in 1997.
I've always been a reader, so I don't remember. I saw my mother's 1960s Remington typewriter and thought: 'cool!' I think I was 11 or 12 at the time. Family. I took a break from my first typed story and when I returned, the manuscript was gone. I found four of my siblings passing it around in the loungeroom...
I liked to read true stories by any author.
I wrote my feelings down in poetry form.
My close friends were the only ones to read my work.
First read 'Fortunately.'
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Began to write because it was the only thing we were good at.
Older people.
The first book I read was the ABC book when I was in kindergarten. I started writing when I was about 13 years old. My treachers were the first to read what I wrote.
I remember first reading the Ramona Quimby books as a child by Beverly Cleary. I moved on Judy Blume, the Choose Your Adventure Books, and Francine Pascal.
I first began writing poetry at 12. Just short little poems mostly for my mother. As an adult my poetry has served as a creative outlet for my emotions and have been a diary of sorts for me. In the finance industry I did a lot of business and technical writing for memos, procedure manuals and project plans. Howeve, November 2008 is when I decided to write as a career.
Of course my mother was to read my first published article. Friends also read my articles as well.
After Dick and Jane, comic books, and a graduate degree in English, I felt I could legitimately read what I wanted to, which was Stephen King, Southern literature--Faulkner, Welty, O'Connor, etc., and later Anna Quindlen, Dave Barry.
I started writing when I was 15. I grew up cliche poor--usually referred to as dirt poor. There was no money for entertainment, and what I couldn't read, I wrote. It was really silly, teen-age writing, but it developed basic skills.
Other than professors, there were initially few who read my writing. Now. . . well, I suppose quite a few people in my hometown as well some of my students.
It took me a while to become an active reader. I started reading Russian Literature and became immediately fond of Dostoyevsky and Turgenev. Outside of the Russians I also enjoy Kafka a great deal. As far as my movie reviews are concern my influences have been Michael Wilmington, whom I first read when he was writing for the Chicago Tribune. I was extremely impressed by his vast film knowledge. I liked Roger Ebert as well. Later on I started to read Rex Reed and Andrew Sarris.
The first things I remember writing were short scripts. The stories were influenced a lot by Kafka and/or scripts by some of my favorite directors; Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, Ernst Lubitsch. I generally didn't let my family or friends read these stories, usually I would let various teachers look at them and often they would encourage me. I started writing film reviews on amazon.com where the general public can look at it.
I started off reading before I hit kindergarten. The little speller readers that they give all the kids. The books that had the largest impression on me as a child however where the Babysitter Club series, the Hank the Cow Dog series, and anything that had a survivalist theme. I've always written. I remember writing short stories on my mother's computer back in the DOS days--which given my age means I was pretty young when I started. My family, my sisters in particular were the first people to ever see my work. Then I started posting a lot of my stuff on the internet and not letting anyone I had a personal relationship read my stuff.
My first book was Little Women.
From a child I alway's wrote my own fantacies,and sometimes even acted
them out with my little brother and sister.
I start to write in 1998. I wanted to write a book of eleven chapters, each shared into eleven peaces of eleven rules. I did it in Dutch and made only six chapters. The name of the book is: ALLES WAT JE KAN BEDENKEN MOET OOK KUNNEN DENK JE ( every thing you can think should be possible you think.) and I wrote it under the name of SMODI GRUBNEROMS.
The first thing I remember reading was a children's book called "Good night Louis", which I still have and still read on occasion. It's a solid memory of my Mom, who's no longer living here on earth but still checks in from time to time and either helps me with inspiration or kicks my ass in the right direction.
I began writing as soon as I could formulate enough sentences to sound cool and memorable. For some reason I had this obsession with writing things that I considered secretive like directions to a treasure or the description of a girl I had a crush on from school and then hiding or burying what I had wrote in a really unthinkable spot. As I began to write more and more I kept this mentality but with much more significant writing. I would have these visions of being dead n' gone and people finding my hidden work all over the place.
I'm pretty certain the first people to read what I'd wrote were my family and friends but who knows... someone could've found some of my insignificant, weird hidden shit.   | | |
I first read adult novels when I was about 13 but there are so many I cannot remember them, they were varied and mostly romantic. I read and studied for my L.A.M.D.A degree when I was in my mid-twenties and read Shakespeare and Dickens and other 19th century classics from European writers.
I began to write fiction when I was in my early twenties, and had many rejections from publishers. But I also wrote plays with a colleague for rep theatre.
I then began studying metaphysics/astrology in my late twenties and wrote reports astrologically for people who commissioned work from me. But I also wrote related material and articles for popular distribution in conventional and unconventional ways.
I now write for our own websites www.perceptivity.co.uk and www.tarot-online.net.
I started to read when I was three years old. I learned to spell some letters and acted if I was reading. In my mind I made up the story. And I was fashinated by the words my mother wrote in her little book for the grocery. So I started to 'draw' the letters and words. I think my mother was the first to read my writing and truelly she did understand what I read down.
The first "real books" I read - after picture books that I learned to read over my mother's shoulder and my Zoobooks subscription - belonged to the Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate. (My mother tried to introduce me to The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, but it bored and annoyed me, much as The Hobbit would later bore and annoy me.) Those were followed by Redwall by Brian Jacques and, through some inexplicable leap, Discworld by Terry Pratchett and, by high school, Neil Gaiman and Neal Stephenson, along with the more canonical texts we read for class. I think those are the authors that formed me the most as a writer.
I started writing around 4th or 5th grade. Artifacts from that period include a 50-some-page Pokemon fanfiction story and much shorter pieces relating to Final Fantasy VII, Neopets, and Spyro. I have always loved scaffolding off of known facts - even fictional ones - to fill in spaces left blank in the original narrative, and the actual backstories and sequels produced by video game writers have often made me think: "my imagination could have done better with that." Granted, I contained a lot of sticky writer's hubris in my fanfiction days, especially for such a young'n, but seriously - once all the heavy lifting of a fantasy or sci-fi story is done, once the world is mostly established, there's so much room for storytelling! | | |
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