What did you first read? How did you begin to write? Who were the first to read what you wrote?
The first book I ever read was The Phantom Tollbooth, unless you count Roger Red Hat and Johnny Yellow Hat at Junior School.
I began to write poems and short stories first, just making them up.
My Mum was the first to read what I wrote, I think.
i cant remember what i first read, but i'm thinking mills and booms. i began writing from an early age for fun. i enjoyed reading novels a lot so one day i thought let me see if i can write my own novel too, which i did. my friends first read what i wrote
I can't recall the exact time when I started. I only know that my mom cultivated an interest in reading and a love of literarture at a very early age.
I (officially) began writing as a requirement for a Gifted Students Program in Junior High.
My mom was initially the only person I allowed to read my work.
I used to read things like the Famous Five and Secret Seven and lots of action books about girls with ponies, because I was really into horse riding. I also used to write about girls with ponies, in the vain hope that my parents would take the hint and oblige. Needless to say, birthdays and Christmases proved something of an anti-climax, as said pony never materialised, although I did once get an Action Girl and horse, which made me realise I wasn't nearly responsible enough for the real thing.
My parents and teachers were my earliest critics, though strangely enough it was my cow of a needlework teacher (when I was aged 11) that spurred me into taking my writing seriously as she continually referred to me as a daydreamer. So what, if it took me two terms to make an apron . . .
Laughing Gas by PG Wodehouse: I had a terrible fever and wanted to try something madder than I felt.
I started writing to express the feelings that I couldn't easily share verbally with other people at such a young age (10).
First people to read my stuff? English Teacher, Parents, Friends...
Actually, hold on...
Not much has changed there! ;)
I was an avid reader from a very early age; in fact, from the moment I learnt to read and write aged four, I enjoyed reading and learning poetry and stories in my native country of Croatia. Later, when I learnt English and came to live in this country, I loved reading W Somerset Maugham, Shakespeare and the First World War poets, particularly Wilfred Owen.
I began writing poetry aged 13 and my form teacher was the first to read my collection of Croatian poetry.
My first 'grown-up' reads were sagas. I remember reading the 'Jalna' books and the Forsythe Saga.I think I appreciate family-driven stories and I'd like to think I could write one myself one of these days.
My first attempt at writing anything serious came when I moved to France and discovered that the house I was living in had been used as a 'safe house' for the French Resistance during the German Occupation. This was the basis of my first novel, New Wine, Old Enemies.
The first book I read was 'The Hobbit' as I was pretty into fantasy films as a kid and loved the idea of a talking dragon and a hero who was pint sized. I began writing at college when I had a cool idea to write a sci-fi trilogy based on four brothers which took me three years to write and is still after ten years some of my best work. Workmates were the first to read my work and I guess many agents who I sent my work out to, trying very hard to get it published. However as a writer I like to keep my work close to my chest.
As I recall my first book to read was a collection of poems by a well-admired poet of Urdu language Mirza Ghalib and that is how I became interested in poetry.
First novel that I read was in Urdu. A very popular love story
called ‘Laila Mujnoon’ similar to Romeo and Juliet. I am sorry I cannot recall the writer’s or the publisher’s name.
I started attending poetry recitals in my college days in India and that’s when I began writing poems and short stories in Urdu language, which is my mother tongue.
I read a couple of Urdu poems and translated in English for my friends to understand. They instigated me to write in English and that is how I began writing in English.
My friends were the first to read and comment upon my work.
I don't remember the first thing I read, but the first book that made an 'impact' on me was a children's book titled The Pink Ballet Slippers. It must have been written well because after that I wanted more than anything to be a ballerina. Growing up, I was one of those voracious readers. I began to write in elementary school (Catholic school), and the nuns/teachers seemed to think there was something there. Classmates seemed to enjoy my stories, too. I guess that's where the ball got rolling.
The Outsiders. I began to write from when I was sixteen. I used to be an actor and I just reviewed the scripts I was given and got the bug from there. The first to read my work was an actual industry professional. From that point on, I enter my screenplays into festival's. I was actually catagorized with George Romaro and Final Destination meets The X-Files.
Robert Louis Stevenson The Gold Bug
I don't know how old I was, but I remember crying over Lassie, Come Home, when I was in grade school. A few years later, a friend brought one of her mother's books to school and I started reading it and loved it. It was Frank Yerby's The Foxes of Harrrow.
Boks of many varieties from my youth.
Long conversations with Christian missionaries and then my traveling days began about the world and in all the countries were the stories with their journey's abiding as I viewed each of them collectively and individually.
Many stories come from pictures that are seldom seen and a single composition of music.
I have always loved to read. I remember spending a lot of time in the library borrowing books as a child. In the sixth grade I volunteered to watch a kindergarten class while the teacher had lunch. I used to make up and write stories to read to the children to keep them occupied. I began working as a secretary when I graduated high school and for many years the only "writing" I did outside of work was writing letters to friends. Later, I wrote a few little stories about my children and submitted them to a small magazine and was published. That experience whetted my appetite to get back to my love of writing. |
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