[Vodstok]

I have been writing a decent amount lately (mostly due to the increase in my reading :)), and I thought it might be nice to have a little roundtable thread for the writers here; to talk about inspiration, schedules, ideas, how you write, why you write, advice. You know, the works.


I'll start things off with why i started writing.

I became interested in writing when i was in 7th grade and I won a writing contest. Granted it was non-fiction, but it was a huge deal. I had played with writing before, but that set the gears in my head in motion.

Then, a few years later, when I was 15, I read Homeland, by R A Salvatore, and decided I wanted to write fantasy. I experiemented with fantasy for years, never finishing anything. Eventually, after seeing, of all things, Judge Dredd (yes, with Stallone), I began working on a sci fi world that would put star wars to shame in terms of complexity and characters.

And it grew so big, i still dont know where to start with it.

Around 19/20, i worte Bearwood and discovered I loved to write horror. I took a break for years while I found myself, started Gloom which as yet to go beyond the second chapter.

I have been writing seriously for about a year now, i went from 3 short stories to my name to 10 (one fantasy, the rest horror), and I am working on a second fantasy short story that is a precursor to a novel.

I have back-burnered my dreams of screen-writing for now, since straight written-word is my comfort zone.

And that is a short synopsis of me as a writer. I leave the floor open for the next person.