Idol Minor - The Playground - Day 3

[clauderainsrm]

Sign-Ups are continuing for Idol Minor: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/852051.html

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What were some of your earliest stories? Who were the people who encouraged your writing?

Have you had the chance to encourage fulfill that role for someone else?

Comments

[kandigurl]

When I was in first grade, I wrote some TMNT fanfic. The teacher was so impressed that she helped me turn it into a bound book (by bound book I mean I drew pictures on manilla paper, put a few sentences on each page, and then she bound it together with one of those plastic ring/plastic cover book report things).

Given the quality of the story reading it back as an adult, there must not have been a very high caliber of writer in her class for her to flip out that hard. I also wonder if she maybe didn't watch Ninja Turtles and thought I invented the characters.

[lauriempress]

More than likely, she just wanted to encourage you. :)

[beldar]

When I was about 7, on a whim I wrote a little story called "Tom and the Tornado" about a Texas prairie dog who stayed down and played in his room under the ground while the other prairie dogs looked out to see a tornado, but they were looking in the wrong direction and got sucked up and away. I'm guessing now it was a fable about keeping one's head down in times of danger. I showed it to my parents and have no idea what became of it.

I had some stories in my head, but am a slow writer so only wrote a few poems (which teachers and parents really liked and encouraged me to write more). I also tried some comic strips, but when I heard how many in advance a pro has to draw I thought I didn't have enough in me to make it a career. Those who saw them liked them, and I once did a doodle for a grade-school paper.

In high school I wrote a few short stories, and my English teacher ADORED them. So, yeah, I've had some encouragement =)

[kehlen]

My earliest story was never finished and never developed further than the first chapter. ^_^

It was about me and a group of friends finding a secret passage in our yard that led to and underground complex and ultimately to an UFO. But we never got further than the lift after the a fire escape ladder leading down into the earth after the passage under the swing in the middle of the yard.

Yay, I summarized the chapter in one paragraph!

[kehlen]

When I was young, nobody really encouraged me. And my literature teachers discouraged writing, because the essays we were always made to write after reading this huge XIX century novel and that huge boring XIX century novel were anything but creative on my part, and worse, those of my classmates who attempted to be creative were regularly and publicly massacred for their efforts. :@

I do not know how this correlates with the teacher being one of my favourites... but she was that as well.

Obviously after the above, I did not want to write anything for years, not really even letters when my best friend moved to another country.

And then I started a blog. This blog, in fact. <3
But at first it was not about writing well, it was about expressing myself, what I call emotional writing.

And then Idol encouraged me, but still do not really care to write often. I have never quite felt the itch.

[tonithegreat]

Hello idol-land! I have entered my children into this fray! They are six, so their entries will be short reads. But they were pretty stoked about a kid version of idol after watching me strugg. . . er, enjoy, idol for so many months. I'm really looking forward to seeing what they do with this, so I guess I am encouraging young writers now.

They have ipad minis and when they write on the minis, it is so different from the process of writing longhand that they normally do. The minis spellcheck for them and their writing with all of the words spelled correctly just seems very alien and wrong.