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 Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:38 pm
I've always been creative, but my love for writing started in the fourth grade, when our teacher made us rewrite 'Island of the Blue Dolphins', I forget how (POV change, or what). Anyway, I got all obsessive about it, working day and night for a week, and I had such a blast doing it that I sort of started thinking about writing all the time. I say sort of because I wasn't regular for another year, but I haven't stopped since!
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 6:00 pm
Mm, honestly?
I'm a crazy perfectionist. I started because I'm a Harvard hopeful with pgossible potential, but I don't have the money to go anywhere. So I talked to this admissions guy. He wouldn't even look at me, just drilled my dad like some army automaton.
"Has she been on a humanitarian trip yet?"
"Mr.____, she's twelve." (I was at the time)
"SO? Where's her book?"
"She's twelve."
"She's tardy."
So I started for all the wrong reasons. But then I got into it, and crazy OCD chick that I am, I'm not going to stop until I've hit my perfect point. heart And then I'm not going to stop until I um... get hit by a bus.
sweatdrop Gee, talkabouta pathetic reason.
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:47 pm
Just to let you know, Harvard isn't all it's cracked up to be. There are a lot of really excellent schools that are a lot cheaper. If, however, you are really set on it, think about going somewhere cheap for college, doing well, and then going to Harvard for your graduate work.
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Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:34 pm
It's like paying for a designer name. Yes, the other schools are excellent, I'm sure. A few of them have sent me brochures and everything. But going somewhere like Harvard is not only an honor, it's a network. And I want to leave my mark on the world; I'm not going to fade into obscurity. And this is my first step to my evil mastermind plan.
That, and my legion of taco demons. xp
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Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 4:11 pm
Point taken, all I'm saying is that you should keep shopping, though. For example, you can get EXTREMELY well networked at a place like Santa Clara, which has a much higher acceptance rate, and just as great of an education to offer you. Plus, remember, people care where you went to grad school, not college, trust me.
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Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 1:01 pm
Harvard is grad school. I'm hoping to go to Notre Dame for pre-law. whee
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Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 1:19 pm
It feels weird to remember this, but when i was little i used to loathe writing. i hardly did my homework, and i never, EVER wrote enything outside of school. maybe it was my mom's OCD rubbing off on me, since i was young, and maybe i did what i saw her do. but then one day in 4th grade we started getting writing assignments to make up stories about anything, and i suddenly started to lik writing, it was very weird.
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 9:37 am
I used to tell myself stories as I tried to sleep. I would get an idea for a good one during the day and then had to keep reminding myself of it all day until I went to sleep. I didn't acctually write stories willingly until I was inspired by a wrong end of the world prediction in '05...which was when I was fourteen. People who read what I wrote of that liked it, so I ended up continuing on and trying to better myself to the point that I obsessed about weather or not my writings met some mental standard that kept changing so it nearly drove me off the deep end... until now. For now I'm back to writing because I enjoy it, so hopefully whatever I write will reflect that as being less constricted and having a better flow. Before you say anything, I'm fully aware that you only asked for why we started writing, not the whole "writing story," but rambling on aimlessly is just what I do.
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Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:57 pm
I cant really remember ever not writing. Its very hard for me to have silence in my head, which is odd since I'm usually very quiet. I've never had a time that I didnt write, unless it was just after I was born... If so, I cannot remember. I wrote even before I could read, and I know this because my mom told me about how I'd used to tell her stories after I'd learned to talk. I actually didnt really learn to read or write until second grade, because I didnt want to learn the rules to it. I still dont actually know the rules of grammar or anything, because I dont use them. Thats what asking my parents to read over what I've written and help with grammar is for. biggrin
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 3:06 pm
I've been an avid reader for my entire life, and on and off, throughout it all, I've tried to write. I don't think I turned out anything really good until poetry in eighth grade, and then, good poems were rare. I didn't start writing short stories until high school. Now, you can't get me away from them!
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:37 pm
I've always liked telling stories and creating them but I didn't really like writing until I was in 7th grade. Mr. Herwig asked us to do a short poem with vocab words and I ended up creating a story with one...and writing it backwards on purpose...
After that, I loved to write ^^
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:32 pm
What inspires me?
being able to create people, races, and worlds that no one has ever seen.
I have always loved to use my imagination.
Events that happen in everyday life and music are also other things that inspire me to write.
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:39 pm
Adapting the world you see, with your imagination to make new and unimaginable places, that can marvel senses... awesome inspiration if I do say so myself Minya.
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Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:54 pm
I was inspired into writing, because whenever I was sad and never told anyone. I would write a story.... It was as though I was crying into the paper. lol. Yeah I know it sounds stupid. But I have ENJOYED writing, because it is a clue to my heart. lol
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Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:15 pm
that's a pretty good reason to write. You can vent negative feelings into your story...
Downside: I do that, and my book has sucked all my emotioins right out of me. I mean, I have squeeness and perkyness and annoyance...but nothing else.
Emotiones losted:
Sadness/grief
tear-inducing joy
emotional pain
interest in certain events
memory/nostalgia
true compassion
insomnia (I sleep lots)
obsession (besides with my book)
affection (well, maybe)
self-pride
respect for humans in general
love
loss
heartbreak
and several hormones.
)))):
Probably because they were damaged when I planned out the final battle scene:
crying crying crying crying crying crying crying crying crying crying crying crying crying crying gonk gonk gonk gonk gonk crying crying crying crying crying crying crying crying crying crying crying crying gonk gonk gonk gonk gonk gonk cry sad gonk gonk gonk crying crying crying crying crying crying gonk gonk emo
It literally broke my heart...'cept, I'm not sure what that feels like...:/
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