What did you first read? How did you begin to write? Who were the first to read what you wrote?
Starting with my A,B,Cs and 1,2,3s...wanting to drill for me.
In kindergarten I won a copy of Aladdin's Lamp for advanced reading and never looked back. My mother was a pre-school teacher and I was reading by the time I was three and a half.
School essays in England where 4-5 pages, not paragraphs as US schools seem to expect, and I wrote reams of pages in school.
I don't remember what I first read; my parents used to read to me as a kid and by the age of four I had memorized several books word for word. As a young child, though, my all-time favorite books included the "Ramona" book by Beverly Cleary; "Charlotte's Web" and "The Trumpet of the Swan" by E.B. White; and "The Baby-Sitters Club" series by Ann M. Martin.
I kept journals sporadically during junior high school but seriously began to write in high school when I wrote two short fiction stories and two poems. The first person I ever allowed to read what I wrote was my creative writing teacher, Mr. Henry.
As a very young child, my favories were books like "Where the Wild Things Are," by Maurice Sendak, and the illustrated books of Richard Scarry. The first novels I remember reading were books like "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," by Lewis Carroll and "The Hobbit," by J.R.R. Tolkien. The richness of the worlds envisioned in those works and complexity of plots and characters I am sure prompted my early efforts to exorcise my own ideas onto paper. As my interests branched, so did my writing.
I think every writer can probably cite their school teachers as being the first to read their work. I was lucky enough to have a few teachers who encouraged me to explore the edge of my creative envelope. When I started thinking of myself in terms of being a Writer, it was most often my mother who proofread my work and gave notes that frequently stung but always honed my technical skills.
Read classics, started writing short stories. My sister was the first to read them.
maximum ride....i started writeing when i was in forth grade...i attempted a childrens book...
I first started reading about World War 2: My grandfather was a veteran and it opened my eyes to the world. From there I read novels in all sorts of genres. I've turned to literature since I left university, a variety of authors including Joyce, Kafka and Tolstoy
My first memories of reading was at a very early age and it was the Noddy stories by Enid Blyton! I remember having a race with a girl in my class when I was six to see who could finish them all first. My first writing experiences were at school but it was only last year that I produced my first play which was a pantomime version of Cinderella which I also driected with my local drama troupe, the Southfields Theatre Group. More on my blog: http://theatrepoetryprose.blogspot.com
The first books that I remember reading were the Hardy Boys books. I think that I began writing poetry, and the first to read it would have been either my parents or my teachers.
I STARTED READING THE BIBLE AT THE AGE OF FIVE. i STARTED WRITING IN MY LAST YEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL. tHE FIRST PEOPLE TO READ MY WORK WERE MY COUSIN WHO HELP TO TYPE IT OUT AND SOME OF MY FRIENDS.
The first books and stories I really got into were Edgar Allan Poe, and books on Greek mythology. Third and forurth grade and I was devouring all I could of both. Fantasy and the macabre were always my favourites as a young person.
I began to write in school of course. so my teachers were the first to read my writing.
I first really creatively wrote poems as a teenager, the words would just cascade out of me...it was a sickness really.
I recognised letters as distinct entities having separate semantic meaning by the time I was two years old. In kindergarten the teacher had me sit before the class and read aloud to them from my own book collection. I read voraciously and on a significantly higher-than-average reading level all through school; and by the time I was 15 I had begun composing original fiction based on daydreams (that had come from actual night dreams) with the idea of some day publishing it. I do not know what became of this juvenalia and retain only some copies of love letters and bits of a journal from that period (and would rather have the juvenalia; some of it, as I remember, was actually quite charming).
Being assigned 'The Great Gatsby' in 11th-year American Literature in 1974, which I insisted on reading before seeing the beautifully-done film of that year, was a seminal milestone. From that event onwards I concentrated on developing something to say via fiction and how best to say it. I wrote several short works based on 'Gatsby' and the themes of cross-clique love affairs before finally completing 'Love Me Do' in 1990. By that time I was involved in half a dozen other fiction projects, most of which remain unfinished though they have served me as a kind of proving ground on which I matured as an artist.   | | |
I'm sure it was a children's book. Honestly, I wasn't much of a reader as a child until I actually had to do reading in college. My first serious writing happened when I was a high school band director writing articles for music magazines which led to an invitation from a publisher to write a book
I knew I loved books and writing when I was in grade school and the teacher would assign a book report and I would do 2 or 3. Back then my family would be the first to read what I wrote. Now, my husband is the first to read what I write or listen to me read to him what I write. |
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