Rollcall: writers on BB

[Indadhanu]

I like to think of myself as one... but feel like a terrible fraud because i haven't written anything creative in years

:yeahthat:

I haven't written since Shel and I got together. I guess I had more time on my hands back then LOL. I'd love to get back into it. All I write these days are assignments

[Starfish]

I would love to call myself a writer. In my younger days I have written the following:
- 2 fiction novels (1 was 130 pages of handwriting when I was 15 - one of my friends read it and liked it but unfortunately it got burned in a house fire a few years later. The other one is terrible and will remain in the dark depths of my old hard drive for all time.)
- 1 play that was performed at a festival in New Zealand (great audience turnout, one terrible review)
- PIlot for a sitcom plus several more episodes (submitted to TVNZ, but surprise surprise, not picked up)
- several short films
- several very bad songs
- a column for a quartely work newsletter, which I also edited during the time that I worked there
- lots of unfinished short stories

I am currently working on what began as a short story but now seems to be turning into a novel (20 pages and the plot is still not going anywhere ). I try to write each morning on the train to work. My main problem at the moment is that no matter what genre I start writing, it always seems to turn into romance/erotica (maybe I'm just not getting enough in real life...).

[spiceoflife]

Hi

Thought I would post on this thread as I am writing a novella for a major uni project. It's my first attempt at *long* fiction, and has been torturous to write: +++anxiety. But I'm very close to finishing a first draft, and will present it to an audience in two weeks. I really hope to be able to keep working on it through rewrite/revision stage, and do more writing in the future.

Cheers!

[AnyDream]

Some fantastic and interesting responses to this thread - I have read through it a few different times and really enjoyed the diversity of responses.

Spiceoflife - wow what a challenge. Do you mind me asking what type of course you're doing at Uni?

[allycat06]

As a journalism student I spent a lot of my time writing (read as -banging my head on the keyboard) Nothing published as yet but give it time.....currently doing the research for one on homebirth and finding it very hard to stay objective!
I constantly correct peoples grammar, speech and spelling so perhaps a career in editing is just up my alley?

I write album reviews for work, which is why I love my job! Is there anything better than getting paid to listen to music?

In my spare time I blog...music, pop culture and birth/breastfeeding/gentle parenting being my topics of choice. One day I will write the story of how I came to be a mama, it's one hell of a story!

My hubby is a seasoned songwriter/musician and blogs about politics.
Needless to say our house is filled with lots of paper with half formed ideas on it!

[Early Kids]

I don't classify myself as a writer, but I guess I technically am!

I blog, I currently run 4 blogs. One is for the kids photography (Photography by Toddlers), so not much writing there. One is their premmie journey (Parenting Premmies) I have another for my own diary, it's locked and for invited members only (there's just some things that you don't need the whole world to know!) and the other is a parenting related blog. I used to blog for a premmie related parenting blog but haven't done in sooo long.

With exception to the parenting one, the rest are all done for myself. I don't write for an audience. I do have premmie related info on my prem blog along with some special needs related stuff, but it's all mostly for my own reference to look back on and if I help just one more parent out then it's totally worth it.

I have written a few articles for people too.

I usually do it in my free time (HAHA)

[Smoke Jaguar]

I'm published, wa-hey! I wrote an article for a friend's little magazine and there I am, on page 5! Unfortunately, in some kind of oversight, I wasn't listed as a contributer...but clearly, I am I'm flexing my writing muscle, once again

[Mum2Romone]

Just bumping a great thread

[spiceoflife]

Spiceoflife - wow what a challenge. Do you mind me asking what type of course you're doing at Uni?

Sure. It was an interesting decision. I couldn't find any courses In Australia that really grabbed me, and I'm so nervous about writing (not having a lit background) that I didn't want to risk my stuff in the marketplace straight up.

But, I'm a Christian, and even though I never wanted to go to bible college, I decided to start a Masters in Christian Studies at Regent College, Vancouver BC (Regent College :: An International Graduate School of Christian Studies) all because they offered a concentration in the arts - essentially I could write a novel as my thesis. And that's what I'm doing!

Allycat - lol at the bits of paper with half-finished ideas!

Jennifer - yeah, I enjoyed the Writers' Centre once upon a time, too. Funny how life so easily swamps creativity. I really hope to keep making writing a priority, but it's going to be hard.

[AnyDream]

Just wondering if there's been any activity in the writer's corner of late?

I've written stuff recently. What else have ppl been up to?

[Sopdet]

I'm back writing, at the moment just scribbling ideas down. Up until recently I had a job that I wrote every day and since finishing that job, I have missed that side of things, so I'm back pushing my creative side again.

[angelaartsstudent]

I freelance as a non fiction writer but havent had anything published for a while. Last thing published was an article on GLBT indentities in virtual worlds and last writing job was for a women's health organisation here in Perth. Worked as an editor for a few local magazines years ago. Also write horror fiction...published in zines, but nothing else yet.

[PollyA]

I've always fancied myself as a writer, Started a Bachelor of Arts at uni when I was 17, Majored in Journalism and Film and Television for 2 weeks, (Hated journalism) so then I swapped to Creative Writing...LOVED IT! Had a very grey Elizabeth Jolley as my tutor which was an exrtaordinary experience and one I am very thankful for, and shared a class with people 20-30 years older than me, They wrote such rich I wonderful stuff that I decided to go away and live, and come back and finish my arts degree when i had some grey hairs and wrinkles
Now I am living... a grand adventure.
Lately I have been craving a creative outlet so I am going to do some local "Life Writing" classes.
Recently I have been inspired my some poetry written by a kiwi doctor. I am so privileged to hear amazing stories every day in my work, I might be ready to start writing again, and I am starting to collect some wrinkles and some experiences of varied, powerful emotion

I have been involved in an internet activity called 6 word friday at Making Things Up: A woman with a husband, five kids, and the occasional witty anecdote and my latest contribution is about being a working mum (The idea is you write about a topic in 6 word lines- this week was "For the Record"
its not my most creative but defiitely passionate...

I go to work. Most days.
I like my job. A lot.
My overwhleming passion is at home.
My babies. Part of me, us.
The love I have for them
Is bigger than anything I know
Mum's can work, and love BIG
I am a great, present, Mum
For the record, working and mothering,
Great mothering, are not mutually exclusive