Hello, folks. It's been a long time since the last time I ask question at the community section. So today I have a list of interesting questions that will make you remember and share with us the most inspirational people of your "writer storyline".
So...
WHO is your favorite writer?
WHO made you enjoy reading?
WHO have been helping you the most with your writing?
WHO is the most inspiring person for your stories?
WHO was the first person who read something you've wrote?
WHO enjoys reading your stories the most?
WHO taught you how to read?
WHO was the first person who heard some of your stories?
WHO is the writer you wish to reach some day?
Hi T.O.
When I was a kid mt favourite book was The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. I loved the idea of talking animals and animals doing human-things like driving. It was that and the Beatrix Potter collection (I still have my entire set from when I was a child - was given to me as a 'new born' present).
There were of course other books that I used to read as a child The Twits, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I think my love of reading probably came from my Grandma, she always had a book or two next to her while she sat in a chair and as I spent a lot of time at my grandma's I had my own set of books.
I think the person who has helped me most with my writing is my wife, she'll read the things I have written and give me honest feedback.
I take most of my inspiration from the things around me. I work in a Museum and often I take inspiration from the objects - not necessarily directly in all cases. People are great, when describing a character, or thinking about how different people speak.
Going back years, my older brother would be the first person to have read any of my short stories or ideas for a story.
It was probably a combination of parents, grandparents and my first teacher, Mrs Kemp who taught me how to read.
Sorry, had to pop out.
And the writer I would like to emulate? - Any of the stalwarts of women's fiction, really. Susan Sallis is one I like because her books are so big, chunky and lovable. I write family sagas with romance but very much for younger people which is what she did. I think the next generation of readers in that genre will want the stories to reflect life as it is now so I wouldn't say my books are very similar and I try to choose very modern content, as opposed to someone like Cecelia Ahearn who I think writes quite traditionally.
Fab question!
I'm just going to say it. Someone mentioned the first Harry Potter on here yesterday as having 75,000 words so I picked it up to ponder that and I was on page 16 before I forced myself to put it down. Also very partial to Dahl, though. I think he's why I began to enjoy reading. The year before my granddad died he casually dropped into the conversation that he'd been invited to Roald Dahl's house and spent the afternoon with him once. He'd seen the writing room at the end of the garden and everything. My jaw didn't close for several hours.
I've had the most help with writing from my friends back home in Hertfordshire. They were the first to hear my stories, helped me believed I could complete a novel and will absolutely be in my acknowledgements when I publish.
Strangers inspire me more than anyone else I know. It's always the chance meetings, especially on public transport, which get me in the mood to write. There's nothing like letting your mind run riot with the idea you've formed from just a few minutes conversation.
A writing friend I met in a class here in Cardiff reads my work more than anyone else.
My reception teacher taught me to read.