WIP Challenge check-in Day 15, Wednesday

[sylvaine]

Hello, fellow writers! How's your writing going?

Poll #9551

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 13

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Today has been...

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very successful
4 (30.8%)

fairly successful
5 (38.5%)

not particularly successful
2 (15.4%)

totally unsuccessful
2 (15.4%)

Are you...

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writing?
10 (76.9%)

editing?
2 (15.4%)

researching?
2 (15.4%)

resting?
3 (23.1%)

Discussion question: is writing something you have done all your life, or something you only discovered as an adult?

Comments

[roane]

Poked a little at my writing before work, and expect to do more this evening. I'll also be doing my very first beta for someone, eep! Kind of excited about that, actually.

I have always been telling stories and writing. When I was five years old, my mom bought me a typewriter for Christmas (this was in the 70s, we didn't have computers around then ;)), and I remember being SO excited because I could write stuff that would look like it was in a book. I used to make books out of folded paper.

I wrote my first short story when I was in 7th grade, hunched over a composition book scribbling. I realize now it was fanfic! It was all about a girl in a high school rock band who winds up meeting her favorite band, and they help make her band famous. Yeah. I know. I had a whole trilogy planned, but it never happened, alas. I would give just about anything to get my hands on those notebooks. I wrote several stories then, all mostly of a sci-fi/fantasy bent. (When they weren't fanfic, clearly.)

Got away from it in high school and college (when I wrote angsty poetry instead), then came back to it as an adult. Thought for a time that I wanted to do it professionally. I've actually managed to sell a couple of short stories, and I've written two and a half novels of original stuff, but I don't think I'm really committed enough to be pro. I don't want it badly enough. But I DO love to tell stories, and I am so so grateful to fanfic for reminding me of that.

[enemytosleep]

OMG, you just reminded me of the notebook series I had, haha. I had a Star Trek rip-off series with all anthropomorphic animals (I illustrated them and everything!), and then there were the Sailor Moon notebook doujin as well ... all on blue-lined paper, haha.

[roane]

Mine were the basic black and white-covered Mead Composition Books. I still have several that I've used for other writing projects as an adult. Just the sight of them makes me terribly nostalgic.

[enemytosleep]

Yep, I remember those! I had a lot of the wire spiral notebooks with binder holes for my Lisa Frank Trapper Keeper. XD