First, be different
Apr. 3rd, 2009 07:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katiefooleryIt's writing week! Yes,you had no idea this was the case, did you? It's all true, though. It's writing week and we are discussing firsts. All of your firsts, from your first first to your last first. To date.
I must admit, I'm a huge fan of writing week. It's not surprising, really. After all, it means I get to ramble on about writing and I may have mentioned once or twice how much I like doing this. The only problem with rambling on about writing is that I'm excessively capable at it. This makes it very difficult to fit my thoughts into the space of four minutes, but I managed somehow. And as a bonus (coming, as they do, at no extra cost), I even included sun-flare and video saved at the wrong resolution! It's not my fault; it played in perfect widescreen on my computer. How was I to know YouTube wouldn't approve? The good news is that I have learnt how to appease said website and my next video will be absolutely perfect, resolution-wise. As opposed to this week's squishedness and last week's tininess.
So I believe a small, anticipatory yay is in order: YAY.
But to return to the firsts. This week, we fivedotnerds are discussing our writing firsts. When did you write your first story? What was your first publication? And so on. I decided to talk about some slightly different firsts in my video, as you will see for yourselves. :D
And as a bonus, LJ-only feature, I'll list another couple of firsts here.
The first character to take over a story without permission was Chaque. She was meant to be a nothing character with a couple of backstory-advancing lines. Then she "dropped a reluctant curtsey" and suddenly she had a personality, attitude... and an overwhelming desire to steal the story. Which she did. Quite successfully. She's single-minded, slightly psychotic and has a tendency to burn things... and I love her.
Although, it's a little worrying to have her in my head sometimes. You never know what may inexplicably go up in smoke when you're not looking.
The first time I ever won a prize in a writing competition was when I was in year eleven. It was third prize and it was worth thirty dollars and I can't even tell you how excited I was when I opened the envelope with the certificate and prize inside.
The first character to wake me up at unwelcome times of the night with story ideas that MUST BE WRITTEN DOWN NOW was Jane. That girl had serious issues with letting me sleep at times. Lucky for her it's impossible to dislike her... even when you're crawling out of bed at 2am to type up notes so she'll shut up and LET ME SLEEP, dammit.
What are your writing firsts? What are the most significant things that have happened to you as a writer? Tell me all about it. :)
I must admit, I'm a huge fan of writing week. It's not surprising, really. After all, it means I get to ramble on about writing and I may have mentioned once or twice how much I like doing this. The only problem with rambling on about writing is that I'm excessively capable at it. This makes it very difficult to fit my thoughts into the space of four minutes, but I managed somehow. And as a bonus (coming, as they do, at no extra cost), I even included sun-flare and video saved at the wrong resolution! It's not my fault; it played in perfect widescreen on my computer. How was I to know YouTube wouldn't approve? The good news is that I have learnt how to appease said website and my next video will be absolutely perfect, resolution-wise. As opposed to this week's squishedness and last week's tininess.
So I believe a small, anticipatory yay is in order: YAY.
But to return to the firsts. This week, we fivedotnerds are discussing our writing firsts. When did you write your first story? What was your first publication? And so on. I decided to talk about some slightly different firsts in my video, as you will see for yourselves. :D
And as a bonus, LJ-only feature, I'll list another couple of firsts here.
The first character to take over a story without permission was Chaque. She was meant to be a nothing character with a couple of backstory-advancing lines. Then she "dropped a reluctant curtsey" and suddenly she had a personality, attitude... and an overwhelming desire to steal the story. Which she did. Quite successfully. She's single-minded, slightly psychotic and has a tendency to burn things... and I love her.
Although, it's a little worrying to have her in my head sometimes. You never know what may inexplicably go up in smoke when you're not looking.
The first time I ever won a prize in a writing competition was when I was in year eleven. It was third prize and it was worth thirty dollars and I can't even tell you how excited I was when I opened the envelope with the certificate and prize inside.
The first character to wake me up at unwelcome times of the night with story ideas that MUST BE WRITTEN DOWN NOW was Jane. That girl had serious issues with letting me sleep at times. Lucky for her it's impossible to dislike her... even when you're crawling out of bed at 2am to type up notes so she'll shut up and LET ME SLEEP, dammit.
What are your writing firsts? What are the most significant things that have happened to you as a writer? Tell me all about it. :)