Well let's see...I've been writing for at least the better part of a decade and a half. My earliest memories being of a small hand illustrated journal I wrote in during the fifth grade; something I actually think I still have kicking around the house some where in storage.
For the most part I'm a fiction writer, fan fiction to be exact. Since I was eighteen till around last year I have used a blogging website called Livejournal to post stories with friends I have gathered throughout the country; I actually look back on my old stories to draw inspiration and, on occasions, wince at how badly my spelling or grammar had been back in those days. The topics of these Livejournals focused mostly on two game settings I had become quite fond of Vampire: The Masquerade and Vampire: The Requiem, both published by White Wolf studios, some of my best work can be found within these electronic pages. However, much like most writers I think, my best work is still located in a battered note book waiting to be completed.
While I'm proud of the majority of my work I think my proudest moment thus far is when I had one of my papers published in EMCC literary magazine, honestly I was stoked! I still have a copy of the issue in a desk drawer to keep me motivated for continued publications.
As for my weaknesses as a writer....spelling is certainly the largest by far. For reasons I can't quite fathom I'm very fond of spelling things phonetically and it's taken me years to put some correction on this very frustrating quirk (As a side this quirk is what prevented me from passing French in high school. I could speak the language but the spelling killed me!)
As for recent projects..I've turned to studying writers such as Gram McNeil, Dan Abbnet, and S.M. Stirling for inspirations and have delved further into a Science Fiction setting instead of my traditional 'dark gothic' ventures.
Your spelling looks adequate to me and would have to be very bad indeed to make any difference in a course like this. Did you know that F Scott Fitzgerald, one of the Greats, was an abominable speller? True fact.
ReplyDeleteAn English major once said to me 'I don't need to know how to spell, that's what spell check is for!' in my case that's certainly true as well, though I am getting better over time. I hadn't known Fitzgerald couldn't spell, I guess it goes to show that you don't need to know all the rules to spin a good tale, which is very encouraging in my case!
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