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Post by Silva on Jun 7, 2011 23:52:15 GMT -5
I started writing when I was in third grade, based on my stuffed cat. I'm not sure what sparked it. I always read a lot, so maybe that's it?
Now, I write because I can't imagine not doing it. I feel like it's always been a part of me.
/corny post
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 8, 2011 0:08:17 GMT -5
I started writing when I was... 6? When Disney's Pocahontas came out. I was dissatisfied with the ending, so I rewrote it. There were several scenes with jumping off of cliffs into waterfalls, vividly drawn in crayon.
My second novel was written at 7, when I trained my babysitter to take dictation because my own handwriting was too slow to keep up. It was about three sisters (Daisy, Violet, and Begonia) who found a unicorn ("but it wasn't just a unicorn -- it was a flying unicorn!") and went on adventures together.
Oh, my bright and auspicious beginning.
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 8, 2011 0:11:43 GMT -5
My first novel was at 14. This made a lot of people upset and is generally regarded as a bad move.
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 8, 2011 0:16:18 GMT -5
My first novel was at 14. This made a lot of people upset and is generally regarded as a bad move. Why did this upset people? ... unless... ARE YOU CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI? (Oh wait, Wikipedia says he published Eragon at 19. But it also says he started writing it at 15. Close enough.) QUESTION STILL STANDS. |
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 8, 2011 0:25:15 GMT -5
My first novel was at 14. This made a lot of people upset and is generally regarded as a bad move. Why did this upset people? ... unless... ARE YOU CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI? (Oh wait, Wikipedia says he published Eragon at 19. But it also says he started writing it at 15. Close enough.) QUESTION STILL STANDS. Hahahaha nah, it's just a Hitchiker's Guide quote I attach to everything that was semi-controversial. It mentioned a lot of my classmates by name. They didn't like my portrayal of them. |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 8, 2011 0:27:59 GMT -5
Why did this upset people? ... unless... ARE YOU CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI? (Oh wait, Wikipedia says he published Eragon at 19. But it also says he started writing it at 15. Close enough.) QUESTION STILL STANDS. Hahahaha nah, it's just a Hitchiker's Guide quote I attach to everything that was semi-controversial. It mentioned a lot of my classmates by name. They didn't like my portrayal of them. ... So you're Harriet the Spy? |
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 8, 2011 0:41:09 GMT -5
Hahahaha nah, it's just a Hitchiker's Guide quote I attach to everything that was semi-controversial. It mentioned a lot of my classmates by name. They didn't like my portrayal of them. ... So you're Harriet the Spy? Did that happen in Harriet the Spy? |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 8, 2011 0:45:28 GMT -5
... So you're Harriet the Spy? Did that happen in Harriet the Spy? Wasn't that the whole story? She spent her time "spying" on friends and neighbors and classmates, writing about them critically in her journal, and then she lost it, they found it, and everyone hated her? |
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Post by Umbvix on Jun 8, 2011 8:28:24 GMT -5
That's a good question. The main reason I write is because I find it an enjoyable way to vent my ideas that I don't feel I can possibly draw. I also absolutely love being able to actually consider what someone else would be thinking or saying, and why they're thinking or saying it. I've enjoyed writing since about 6th grade, and while I don't usually write a lot at a time (maybe a page and a half long scene idea or just RPing with a friend) I really do just find it so fun to immerse myself in my characters' lives.
I actually came to this realization thanks to my dear friend, Abby. We have roleplayed and written together for almost as long as I've been writing at all, and we've both improved along the way. We ask each other questions about our characters and their motives and how they would feel if such-and-such happened or whatever. Those are some of my favorite conversations, sorting out the finer details of my characters' lives. Plus, I always kind of like noticing the tiny bits of myself that are present in each of my characters. Most of them are pretty different from myself, but it still makes me smile.
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Post by Olive on Jun 8, 2011 8:47:53 GMT -5
I'm going to throw out a bunch of quotes... which feels ironic, summing up why I write with other people's writing. Ah well, here goes. "I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die." -Asimov "Writers cannot be tamed and rendered civilized. Or even cured." -Heinlein And, because now I feel like I have to put my own writing down... I'm going to quote myself. In the form of redirecting you all to a rant from a while ago. depressed-populace.tumblr.com/post/5864858434/writers-are-a-depressed-populace(And now, because I can't stop writing... see, this is a disease.) I write because I can, because I have to, because everything makes more sense in words. I write to explain what I think to other people and to figure out how I feel. I write to remember everything and forget pain. Which, honestly, never works. But I still keep writing. |
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 8, 2011 17:29:44 GMT -5
Did that happen in Harriet the Spy? Wasn't that the whole story? She spent her time "spying" on friends and neighbors and classmates, writing about them critically in her journal, and then she lost it, they found it, and everyone hated her? I always get Harriet the Spy and Matilda mixed up in my head, being that I haven't seen either of them in years. |
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Post by onlyaworkingtitle on Jun 8, 2011 18:26:07 GMT -5
Wasn't that the whole story? She spent her time "spying" on friends and neighbors and classmates, writing about them critically in her journal, and then she lost it, they found it, and everyone hated her? I always get Harriet the Spy and Matilda mixed up in my head, being that I haven't seen either of them in years. Matilda was the one about the neglected girl who developed telekinetic powers, drove her principal insane via chocolate cake, and moved in with her hip young kindergarten teacher. Or something like that. |
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Post by Fuck Yeah Dion on Jun 8, 2011 19:04:47 GMT -5
I always get Harriet the Spy and Matilda mixed up in my head, being that I haven't seen either of them in years. Matilda was the one about the neglected girl who developed telekinetic powers, drove her principal insane via chocolate cake, and moved in with her hip young kindergarten teacher. Or something like that. The plot sounds so much darker when you put it like that. |
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Post by KatjevanLoon on Jun 8, 2011 22:26:13 GMT -5
"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die." -Asimov Yeah, this. Have written poetry since I could speak (according to mom). Started my first novel at age 12; finished it when I was 22. Started blogging in college. Dabbled with fanfic. Currently working on perfecting my short stories. |
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Post by inarikins on Jun 8, 2011 23:19:37 GMT -5
Because nobody else writes the books I want to read, so I have to write them myself. /ignoring the conversation above this comment
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