I cant remember what I first read. I began writing from the dreams I've had since the 1st grade. I had dreams of action/adventure movies and I'd write it down. Over the years, I've edited and added on to those stories. My teacher was the first to read what I wrote and then told my parents about it. They said I was talented. :)
I didn't really read anything, I was naturally just good with words. I began writing because of a dream I had. I love to daydream and escape reality by diving into my daydreams, but, they weren't enough for me. So, I decided to write stories, shape worlds of my own imagination and dive into them through writing. My teachers were the first to read my writing.
I first started writing in 2005 when I was inspired to write some poetry. I soon found I had enough to form a collection but was unable to pay for self publishing costs, so I printed copies of my first book from my home PC and hand stitched them together. My friends and family bought copies and I soon found I had enough to pay for publishing. I set up Lyvit Publishing as a vehicle for my poetry book sales, eventually being approached by four other authors to publish their work.
I tried to keep my poetry on the lighter side as I had read a lot of deep poetry that didn't interest me. I felt that by providing humorous poems I would engage with more readers.
Been a long time to remember what book I first read but how I began writing. I submitted a short story contest when I was living in Melbourne Auastralia. didnīt expect to win and when I did, well, it was the start of an exciting journey. Friends were the first to read my stories. Some were quite taken aback by what I wrote especially the second story which was filled with supernatural incidents, the occult etc. They loved it and I found my genre.
The first book I read was an abridged copy of "The Pilgrim's Progress." I began to write at a very specific moment during a summer rainstorm.
First books i remember reading for fun were a series of Dickens' and Twain classics given to me by relations - Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. I was horse-crazy, and my mother gave me her 'horse books' like the Australian Mary Grant Bruce Billabong series, My Friend Flicka and the Thunderhead series.
I began writing poetry about horses when i was about eight and gave a poem to my grandmother, which ensured the whole family read it.
I first read somewhat later than a lot of kids, around age 7, in first grade. I began reading just words on labels; the first thing I read was "Puppy Chow" but I pronounced it "Puppy Schau." One of my books was mostly pictures, called "Find Freddy," much like "Where's Waldo," the object was to find a portly kid named Freddy in series of complex drawings, often full of strange street signs and speech bubbles. I copied some of the street signs on my bedroom door, such as "Beware of Killer Fleas" and placing the phrase "Stay Cool" on the ceiling fan. The imaginative pictures of the Find Freddy books entered my first stories full of aliens, one or many-eyed monsters, ghosts and flying saucers. In first grade I read these stories to the class as an assignment, and the class thought them entertaining and hilarious, including the teacher.
I read everything, including cereal boxes, and always have. I began writing professionally when I answered an ad for a feature writer. The people of Frederick, Maryland were the first to read my stuff.
The first 'real' literature I read were the novels of Jack London. From that, I found my love of writing. I took the age-old advice to write about something I had a passion for, which is politics.
Not sure what I first read. The first book I remember that I absolutely fell in love with was Charlotte's Web by E.B. White. Mom read it to me very well. I was writing through my parents. They wrote down what I told them to write before I learned to write myself.
The ABC's chart on my teachers wall. I begin to write with someone taking my hands and guiding it until they figured out I was a lefty. My doll baby's were the first to read...well, my Mom when she received her religious and history books back after I'd scripted them with my markings all in the margins.
The first books I remember reading, back in the second grade, were "Paddle to the Sea", "Black Beauty" and "Wind in the Willows". Later, in middle-school, having completed the entire collection of Hardy Boys from our school library, I triedmy hand at writing mysteries. They wouldn't sell but my mother thought they were 'charming'.
I first recall reading Robert Louis Stevenson`s A CHILD`S GARDEN OF VERSES, also the sonnets of Shakespeare, Enid Blyton and Biggles.
I grew up in Denmark and began to write stories as soon as I learned to write. At age fifteen my family immigrated to Australia. This meant a new culture and a new language. The greatest shock to me was to realize I would not become an investigative reporter and journalist in this lifetime. Much of my English was learned by writing. It took many years for me to regain my confidence to write fluently. It took even longer to find the time.
Not till I retired did time and my love for writing meet up again. It was ignited by what you might call a 'cause'. I had suffered a weight problem for twenty years. During that time I tried every diet known on the planet. I finally came to the conclusion that diets don't work. This got me thinking and I realized that for the first 40 years of my life I never had a weight problem. I stayed slim and maintained the same lifestyle. It made me remember some really significant events in the past and some things I had almost forgotten.
The reason for our weight problems and growing type2 diabetes today suddenly became crystal clear. That was around six years ago. That's when I returned to the traditional diet and lifestyle I had followed in the past. I got back into contact with my own body, I reminded myself how it works and I began to listen to it. I have not had a weight problem since.
The pressing desire to pass on what I had learned, particularly about the cause of today's obesity statistics, finally gave me the courage to write about it. We are all drowning in diet information. We have handed the responsibility for the welfare of our body to people who do not know or understand how the body works. Nor, it seems do they care.
It is not the 'right diet' that will cure the obesity epidemic we already face today. Or the type2 diabetes epidemic looming on the horizon. The problem is not the diets, the problem is: 1.that we diet at all. 2. That most of us have become carbohydrate addict's victims.
In the sixties diets were still for sick people, people with diabetes for example. Type2 diabetes was unheard of - and obesity? I don't recall ever seeing a healthy obese child, or hearing of one. Yet today, even child obesity is common. Most tragic of all, more and more children are falling victim to type2 diabetes. It should be obvious to anyone that we are heading for disaster. According to obesity statistics, eighty percent of us, including children, will be overweight within a decade.
That is why I have written a book called The Carbohydrate Addict's Manual, which will soon be published. That is also why I write constantly on my blog, to explain what has happened to us, you might say - behind our backs.
I have recorded close to a dozen videos, many of them are published on my blog. They will give you the kind of information nobody else will give you. If you wonder why nobody wants to tell you, you need only remember the tobacco industry's appalling display of public responsibility not that many years ago.
Too many people are in business to make you fat, and most of them are not even in the fast food business. They can only get away with it if you let them. I hope to get the opportunity to teach you how to get back in touch with your own body. How to take back the controls and never have to see a weight problem again. - At least not in your own family.
Kirsten Plotkin Author of The carbohydrate Addicts Manual
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The first romance I read was A HEART SO WILD by Johanna Lindsey when I was 12 years old. I knew I'd wanted to be an author since I was 7, but when I read this book, I knew romance was what I wanted to write.
When I was in the first grade, the second graders read stories for us that their teacher had laminated. Their stories were so beautiful and permanent that I knew instantly that's what I wanted to do. I wrote a short poem in second grade that my teacher loved so much, she entered it in a contest to be in a book about young writers. It got in the book, and I received a letter from the governor and a story in our local newspaper. I was given the book in front of the entire school at an assembly. That was my first experience with fame, and I was hooked. From then on, writing stories was my passion.
My classmates were the first to read my stories. In junior high and high school, I wouldn't dare come to school without having written something on my ongoing stories. My friends would revolt! A few of them said I'd be published one day. It took a lot of years before I was courageous enough to submit anything, and a few years after that to realize that eBooks really weren't the waste of time my friends and family may have first thought. | | |
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