What did you first read? How did you begin to write? Who were the first to read what you wrote?
This probably sounds really geeky but the first thing I ever read was an illustrated dictionary as a child. I remember sitting with my grandad and going from Aardvark to Zebra and tracing my fingers over the beautiful illustrations. That was no doubt the beginning to my language pedantry and my obsession with dictionaries.
I began to write because I went to a big school and came from a big family and was no where near as loud as everybody else. I found my own world and also a way to have my own voice heard.
I never used to let anybody read my writing. I'm still incredibly guarded until I've spent hours crafting it into something I think is good enough to share. My school teachers were probably the only people who ever got to see my work when I was growing up.
The very first book I read was "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee." I was raised with a fascination for history and other cultures, as well as with an appreciation for the ethnicities and peoples who made up my own family background.
I first began to write because I was mimicking my sister. It was during Christmas break from school, and as I recall, we were driving my poor mother insane. She sat us down and told me to draw and told my sister to "write a story or something." I did everything my big sister did, so I decided to write instead of draw. She's now an artist, and I'm still writing...funny how things turn out.
The first people to read what I wrote were my sister and my mother.
Nursery rhymes, I think, were my first literature, though I'm not certain whether I read them myself or they were read out to me. After that, I think it was Enid Blyton's the Noddy series. And after that, tons and tons of Enid Blyton. Followed closely by Charles Dickens.
I did not write much except for essays and debating contests in elementary and high school. It was only in college that I first attempted poetry, and even that was only because there was a competition in which everybody got participation certificates even if you didn't win. I won. That's how it started. Poetry, essays and short plays at first. Fiction later.
My college teachers and batchmates must have been my first readers. I sometimes subjected my poor roommates to first drafts. That habit died young, fortunately, and my friendships survived.
Well, I first read picture books. Then I got interested in mysteries and in history. Toward the end of my high school years I was reading and writing poetry, as well as reading contemporary experimental fiction (Vonnegut, Kosinski, etc.)
I have no idea why I started writing poetry. All I can remember is that I did it for a few days, then figured I should know something about it if I was going to write it. I checked an anthology out from the library.
My first book that I read was a math book, and I hated it. I began to write in high school, its was a short story about a kid risking his life for something stupid. It was supposed to be funny, instead my mother's friend cried. My mother first read that story.
First read: I was an early reader. When I started kindergarten at age 4 I was reading the Dr. Seuss series for children and had begun trying to tackle magazines and newspapers, albeit in fits and starts.
Begin writing/first to read what I wrote: I was encouraged to write by my 4th grade teacher. She had read some of my assigned writings and encouraged me to write some short stories. By 5th grade I was submitting stories to her on a regular basis...fictional stories that she would read aloud to her class for story-time. One of those stories she submitted for a contest to an educators' periodical. It was my first experience winning anything for my writing.
The Diary of Anne Frank was the first book I remember reading. I was only about ten years of age. It had a profound influence on me and how I lead my life. Not even so much from the religious aspect - more from a humanity position.
I began with a love of words and making lists of words, which were intelligent and challenging. I would write many letters to my friends over the years - the paper kind - and I think my writing really developed from there.
बचपन में धर्मयुग, साप्ताहिक हिन्दुस्थान, चन्दामामा आदि पत्रिकाएं पढ़ने से साहित्य की पढ़ाई प्रारम्भ हुई। इसके बाद सबसे अधिक बंगला साहित्य को हिन्दी अनुवाद में पढ़ा। पत्र-लेखन पहली पसन्द बना फिर अध्ययन के कारण लेखन का अवसर नहीं मिला लेकिन सन् 1990 में लेखन के रूप में पहला आलेख लिखा जो सभी ने पसन्द किया। कभी मेरे पति मेरे लेखन के प्रति उदासीन ही नहीं विरोधी भी रहे और इसी कारण मेरा लेखन विलम्ब से प्रारम्भ हुआ लेकिन जब मैंने लिखना प्रारम्भ किया तब वे ही मेरे प्रथम पाठक बने।
I was always an avid reader. Books were my best friend - from best sellers, magazines to autobiographies.
Writing happened to me. I was a housewife and a mother of a four month child when a software company moved next door. They were looking for a person, who was good in English, for the post of a technical writer. I went for the interview and got selected. I joined the job, and hence embarked on a journey of discovering the writer within myself. Since then I have worked as a technical writer, content writer and business writer. It has been more than six years now, and I love the experience, for every new day brings a new lesson for me to learn.
I started with User Manuals for POS software (designed for a garment store) named Intrak.
My parents have always enjoyed telling stories of my love affair with books. They encouraged me to read from an early age. I know that there were times they regretted contributing to my passion because I was most content reading and it was a rare occasion to find me without a book in hand reading at the cost of any other interests. My personal memories involve finding any excuse to read while doing chores around my family home. If it was my turn to do the dishes you can bet I had a book crammed between the faucet and the backsplash so I didn't miss a word. I was in constant trouble for reading under my covers with a flashlight after lights out. Nothing has changed; I always have something to read in my bag. The only difference is I now include a journal or notebook with a story I am currently writing.
My love affair with the written word also began in my youth. I wrote short stories in grammar school and added poetry in junior high. High School afforded me greater opportunities to write everything from research papers, essays, creative pieces and articles for my school newspaper. I still found time to write what I wanted on my own time and experimented with different genres, voices and styles. It was then I realized I had an innate talent for expressing myself through writing and I vowed to make writing a part of my life.
The first to read my writing were my parents. They encouraged me to continue and my Father suggested a career in Journalism. Then of course the teachers who contributed to my education read and evaluated my work. I then began sharing my work with friends and just about anyone who would take the time and read what I had written.   | | |
When I first started to read, I enjoyed autobiographies. I was nine when I started to write short stories. Many things that I’ve written no one has ever read it. But, when I decided to become a writer, my husband was the first to read my work.
I attribute my love of reading to my mother. Before my brother was born, we moved to New Jersey for awhile. She did not have any friends nearby and there were no kids in the neighborhood. We only had each other for company until my father came home from work. So every day, around 3 in the afternoon she would read to me from this giant book of poems and fairy tales. I was mesmerized with the written word from that time on. That was how I learned to read. I still have the book, worn as it is, the binding held on with masking tape.
I always loved to write, my first story published in our public school yearbook when I was in the first grade. But I was never serious about it, very fearful of sharing until about seven years ago when I found this amazing writing group. They were really the first people I shared my stories with.
It was watch the lies we were fed all day every day from beginning to end that led me to write. I had to get the unbiased truth out about the lie we were living and still are. Those searching for the truth and the answers to survive the 21st century read my work!
ifirst read munshi prem chand
from childhood i was writing poems once kala paryas manch nangal gave me chance on stage for poetry recitation and one gurpreet grewal a journalist and founder of that munch encourage me to write n publish my book i was somwhat shy because at the age of 54 how could i compete moreover i was from medical proffession but i started writing i published my first poetry book in 2005 and tow story books in2006 n 2007 next is story book n america yatra sansmaran
editor of a hindi magzine dr. B.N.kashyap read my first story and contacted on phone he congrated me and ispired to write stories he made remarks for veer bahuti[title of the story]wonderfull
Started writing 4 years ago at the suggestion of my wife. A friend was the first to read my book. |
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