When did you know you wanted to pursue writing?
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Re: When did you know you wanted to pursue writing?
Oh, goodness. Surely you've improved since then? What makes you think you haven't become a good writer?
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Just my instinct. Not all of those who write are necessarily good at it.zeldas_lullaby wrote:Thanks!
Oh, goodness. Surely you've improved since then? What makes you think you haven't become a good writer?
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I bet you're a better writer than you think.
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So I was writing small stories and such while still in high school, no publishing outlet of course, but it was fun to write stuff. In college I was a chem major w. pre-med, biology, and math, too. Then i branched out and took a 2nd major in English lit w. focus on James Joyce.
Right out of school I worked as a newbie reporter for a newspaper but the pay was simply not a living wage so I directed my dayjob toward chemistry.
Eventually lost the medical desire but ended up doing chemical research and still kept writing fiction and essays and such too. Later in life I was an engineering consultant on specs for offshore exploration and drilling w. focus on safety and environmental regs. So I got to blend my writing skills w. technical things and I did pretty well, since I could write coherent specs that were easy to read but still had all the requisite tech info.
And I still kept writing, and now I'm focusing on my private detective novels.
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I started writing guest blogs, about random topics. Mostly were comedy and my readers loved them. They said I had a way of puling them in. And because of that I started writing stories tailored to my readers being the main characters. They got such a kick out of seeing who would play what in those stories.
I have not been so happy since starting to write my own stories
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I was eleven, and it was almost Christmas 2001. My family was moving from California to Wisconsin and we had to spend Christmas and New Years in a hotel in Tennessee (I've travelled a lot!). I remember we had just seen The Fellowship of The Ring in the theater, and I was feeling inspired. I was also feeling bored and restless. So I took out one of my dad's tiny yellow legal pads and started writing a fantasy story about the Twunes and the Wolymen. I distinctly remember telling my little sister that I was only going to write for an hour or so until I got bored.
I never got bored, couldn't stop writing, and finished that book when I was almost 13. I've been writing ever since!
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