I began reading at a very early age. Therefore, I can honestly say I can't remember the first book I read other than the Dick and Jane series in grade school. However, reading was my way to escape and I took it, often. I've read everything from Treasure Island to War and Peace, from The Fire Next Time to Peyton Place, from The Graduate to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and To Kill a Mockingbird.
I guess I should have known that I was a writer from my early years, but I was determined to shake up the business world, so chose a degree in Business Administration and Sociology. No matter, you can't change the inevitable...we are who we are. My first serious attempt to write was rejected by, none other than, Oprah before she created Harpo and began to produce serials like The Women of Brewster Place. That rejection partially convinced me that I was not a writer, however others refused to allow me to hold on to that conviction for long. In 1991, my best friend insisted we create a series of our own in a 30-minute movie format. We did storylines for twelve movies, wrote and developed the story for one, which later I had to write the script (my first) when a local production company produced it. Next, my first short story was chosen and published in an Anthology with approximately 30 other women...the first collaboration of strangers produced through the internet of which I am aware.   | | |
BOBO, children magazine in Jakarta, Indonesia when I was 5 years old. Well, I have to focus or listening music to start writing. if at the office, my boss for sure but personally, I'm posting them at my blog :D
My love of reading began with Enid Blyton's 'Famous Five' and 'Secret Seven'. I went on to Phantom comics and the Illustrated Classics. My father joined a book club when I was about twelve and I began to devour the children's titles then read the 'Senior Fiction' he bought for himself.
I began writing poetry about things that happened to me when I was in Primary School. From about the age of twelve, my teachers began to take an interest in my writing.
Charles Dickens & H G Wells I had been an electronics Engineer all my working life. I retired on my my 100 acre farm, at an early age; 44 years. I began to write soon after, and I have many unpublished stories to my name. My first success I had with my book, The Left hand of Shaman in 1999 most people in the town of Ruby Vale in Queensland have read my book. To date I have published 7 books.
One of the first books I remember reading is "Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame, and it's still one of my most cherished children's stories. I first began writing poetry at a young age--maybe about twelve--when I wrote a poem about love for my parents, who were to first to read it.
I started at a very early age reading Roald Dahl and Anne Rice books. To be honest though I stopped reading when I hit my teens. I watched movie after movie and that's why I moved into screenwriting. Novels are not my forte. I have a much better understanding of how it all works on screen.
I read at a very early age. It was before Grammar school. The first book besides the Bible was 'The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe'. I began to write poetry somewhere around the ages of 10-12. It would ease my mind, purge my soul and allow myself to be honest, if only with myself. My home-life and the abuses endured were the target of my early writing and into my first book, '5 degrees to separation'. My older brother Michael was the first to read my works and my biggest supporter until his untimely death in 1980.
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I was reading before I really started retaining memories; I don't remember starting to learn to read. As the story goes, I was recognising whatever corporate logos around town and identifying them by name before I was two. I'm not sure it was literally the first book I ever read and finished, but I got tired of asking stupid questions and just read the dictionary over a couple days when I was four.
Around the same time, I was playing with an abandoned, yet limpily working portable typewriter. Ribbon and paper and keys. I happened to bang out a few hundred words of lesser quality than most of the weaponised fanfic you can find online these days. So that was my first written story: an unfortunate mess huntpecked on a typewriter when I was four.
The first to read this purposeless mess were my parents. Being parents, they were disturbingly impressed by the thing. Dad, on whatever strange whim, threw the thing at a magazine; they actually ran with it. So, the first people to read my stuff were whatever subscribers I assaulted with it when I was four; I really hope none of them remembers, or relates that thing in any way to me today.
Incidentally, I think I got about fifty bucks out of the deal; at the time, that was around a dozen cartons of cigarettes...though that's probably not what I spent it on. | | |
Apparently, my parents discovered I knew how to read when they heard me reading aloud from the printing on the cereal box as I was eating breakfast. I was four or five years old at the time. The first story I wrote - or illustrated, rather, since my teacher actually wrote what I dictated to her - was about traveling to the Moon and meeting some aliens; I was in first grade then.
I have been writing since I can remember. My granny taught me to read when I was very young. The first two words I learned were 'and' and 'the' my granny gave me a cookie everytime I spotted them in everyday life. I could read before I got into kindergarden.
At 8 I read the adult historical romantic novel Catherine (Jean Plaidy). The librarian gave me access to the 'adults library' because I read about all the children's books.
I started to write my own historical novel about 4 knights (brothers) and their sister Marlene. I already had a reputation for writing in the school paper. Those articles were read by the head principal.
I'm afraid my first historical novel came to nothing: I decided I was too young to write about those things.
The Regency Romantic Warrior Novels I started to write in 2001, but it took me till 2011 to self-publish. I wrote to an agent in New York about one of my novels but she said they were great, but SHE was not going to do it. I saw later that she had become a christian agent and it did not help that 'Major in Distress' Part 1 (Deceptions) has same-sex content.
I must say I have always loved Edgar Allen Poe. something about his work even thou it is dark it tells the story of love.
I have always been in to the dark horror books and moves,
When I started reading for the enjoyment of it, the first authors I picked up were Fred Saberhagen and Stephen King. The Complete Book of Swords and the Dark Tower series have shaped my life in ways it's hard to explain. But basically, the Dark Tower series opened up new worlds to me - it expanded the universe and created infinite possibilities - and I was so full of ideas that I couldn't keep them in my head anymore. (I was always an imaginative kid, but at this point - in fifth grade - my storytelling shifted from lying to writing.) My first readers were my friends at school. My best friend in middle school used to read what I wrote, gush over it, and share it with anyone else who'd read it. She was my first promoter and is still my #1 fan. |
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