Hello my name is David and I’m an aspiring author. I found this post
incredibly difficult to write without it sounding as if I was a member
of an addiction support group. However I think that analogy that suits
me well, writing and being an author is an addiction for me. As with all
obsessions there is a certain need that the act satisfies us with; for
me that need is to entertain readers.
Writing is something that I have wanted to do since school. My favourite
assignments were always creative writing. However I tended to find the
constraints in which we were given too restraining. What I really wanted
to do at the time was to write science fiction, not modern day love
stories based on “Romeo and Juliet”. I always thought that stipulating
those restrictions was not a particularly good exercise for developing
fiction writing. There was no advice on character creation, dialogue or
plot lines. Yet despite the lack of direction; when I was thirteen we
had an assignment to write a six part ghost story. I remember the buzz I
felt when my classmates wanted to hear the latest instalments of my
story; hanging on to every twist and turn woven into my series.
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