My Beginnings

Even though I haven't realised it, I've always had an interest in writing. At school, I used to fabricate worlds, weapons and villains my friends and I would battle against. In fact, I created two such things, which when I look back at them, I'm somewhat embarrassed about, but they were influences and building blocks nonetheless. The first of these was "Dino Wars" - dinosaurs equipped with different times of weapons. In fact, in class I wrote a short story about them, I'll dig that out some time and type it up here. The second one was something that I enjoyed far more, and 'developed' (as much as a 10 year old mind can) include different guns, swords, vehicles, technologies and villains. Such things ranged from gigantic robotic scorpions, the morphing vehicle canisters (again, 10 years old, cummon), lightsaber like swords that stored as a hilt but solidified once activated. Again, I wrote a story for this as well, and it came to be known by myself and the friends who I played with, battling imaginary foes across the entire playground, as Future Soldiers. This is really the fundamental basis for my current writing, as crude a comparison as that is. I as always interested in the future, what would be created, what would be technologically developed, so naturally my world is of a slightly higher tech level than our world. Not ridiculously so (in some senses), but more advanced nonetheless. It has slowly stepped down in tech levels actually, from that of Future Soldiers, to Star Wars level, to a step below that, to a slight step above current technology, with a few greater advances in some areas and lacking in others (for instance, satellites don't exist in my world as of yet, the weather does not allow for their proper use and the technological advancements have been focused to the surface as war rages). Then, aged 9, I told my teacher I wanted to write a book, which she and another one of the teacher's enthusiastically encouraged, allowing me one morning to begin writing it out on a laptop, while at school. They let a kid in year 3 write a story out on a laptop, during school. It would years before I remembered all this, and I've realised that I've always been on the path to becoming a writer, since those very early stages before I was even 10 years old. But, besides these games, short stories and the likes (of which I will try to find, hopefully that's achievable), I'd like to share with you my first ever piece of poetry. Again, written when I was about 10-12, and I was heavily into knights and the medieval age, hence the styling of the poem. I designed it with the original intent to hang it on my bedroom door: something I have never done, so here it is:

Tis entry at your own free will,
Although Ye might find some comfort still,
Within the stronghold of the Knight,
Thomas in his armour bright.

Forget the exact date, but that was a turning point in my writing - my first ever poem. Although I write less poetry nowadays, it still sticks with me, so much so I can recite it off memory.

And, to the current writing situation: it's going well, quite well. I've written one poem, a handful of riddles (of which I will post some time soon) and have been working on the novel, which is slowly beginning to take even more shape. So, the writing is going absolutely awesome! But, until I find the rest of those old influential writings or have any developments, I'll be off!