tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post2055298657030720509..comments2024-03-28T02:34:34.041-07:00Comments on Rachna's Scriptorium: What has Triggered our Writing Passion?Rachna Chhabriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16900999965919504282noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-5108096324939503912012-03-05T00:18:16.576-08:002012-03-05T00:18:16.576-08:001,2,3, and 9 are my worst nightmares...Your grann...1,2,3, and 9 are my worst nightmares...Your granny sounds amazing if she could think of several endings...creativity I guess, runs in the blood.Alka Gurhahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12050387590729571321noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-23221772049988351302012-03-01T16:29:20.783-08:002012-03-01T16:29:20.783-08:00I wrote a few stories when I was little, didn'...I wrote a few stories when I was little, didn't write much for a while, and then a book inspired me in 2009 which really started me on novels.Golden Eaglehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08721520451194318436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-46065372768954313422012-03-01T10:19:18.185-08:002012-03-01T10:19:18.185-08:00I would say my father and my childhood reticence.....I would say my father and my childhood reticence...it was easier to write my inner most thoughts than express them verbally. My father had many stories...mostly adventurous ones. Besides he used to write a lot and I did edit some of his work.Joyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09341706502020011897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-10856541284627539452012-03-01T07:40:13.089-08:002012-03-01T07:40:13.089-08:00Glad to hear you had a good holiday!
I had a teac...Glad to hear you had a good holiday! <br />I had a teacher in high school who told me I was a good writer. I think I left the classroom about an inch taller that day. :) His comments inspired and gave me courage to write more.Karen Langehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18177923284595298347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-47160559155996650412012-02-28T22:57:37.328-08:002012-02-28T22:57:37.328-08:00Sitting on the beach watching the sunset sounds li...Sitting on the beach watching the sunset sounds like a wonderful way to pass the time!<br /><br />I'm not sure what started my passion for writing. It may have had something to do with my losing my hearing for a while when I was young. I became quite introverted because of it and imagined my own worlds. Books and movies inspired me.Lynda R Young as Elle Cardyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09975442291393246148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-29699394500878050202012-02-28T21:28:38.445-08:002012-02-28T21:28:38.445-08:00The idea that anyone would want to read something ...The idea that anyone would want to read something I wrote has been quite an intoxicating feeling...later squashed by the realization that, "oh, I have to write something of quality???"Lydia Kanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00484415427764822386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-82881463015148226352012-02-28T19:47:38.222-08:002012-02-28T19:47:38.222-08:00I started writing when I was 5 or so... it's j...I started writing when I was 5 or so... it's just part of me, I guess. I do have a very book-loving family, and my uncle is an author, but I don't think I realized this until I was older. It was just ingrained at a very young age.alexiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07122487552931794871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-14521998935206838792012-02-28T19:14:36.144-08:002012-02-28T19:14:36.144-08:00My Grandfather inspired me. A voracious reader wit...My Grandfather inspired me. A voracious reader with a library of his own, he encouraged me to read and write. How blessed we are for the love of our grandparents.Life Unordinaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14500378311526554168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-7591153783004593732012-02-28T14:30:35.470-08:002012-02-28T14:30:35.470-08:00What a great grandmother! And how ingenious: to te...What a great grandmother! And how ingenious: to tell the same story with a different ending. Thank of how that opened up your imagination and your creativity by changing it and changing it.<br /><br />My mother jump-started my writing with her love of books and also her own love of writing. She read to us when we were small, and later, on Saturday evenings we had "reading feasts", taking turns reading to each other and taking brief intermissions for snacks before returning to the reading. (Not surprising that I've always associated pleasure with reading.) I started scribbling stories quite early, and she always encouraged that.Elizabeth Varadan, Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01708206753256682635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-91127829718161251352012-02-28T12:29:40.628-08:002012-02-28T12:29:40.628-08:00The book that drew me into the world of fiction wa...The book that drew me into the world of fiction was Heidi- my first "big" novel and I read it over and over!<br />I'm still more of a reader. :)Cheryl Klarichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12633250643087095689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-23468006264133542092012-02-28T11:14:45.554-08:002012-02-28T11:14:45.554-08:00I have always written, but it wasn't until aft...I have always written, but it wasn't until after our cat Blue was stuck 50 feet up a tree and we could not coax him down, that my first picture book was born. And then my hubby said I needed to write books. And so it was. My earliest influence was Anna Sewell. She wrote Black Beauty. Have you eread it yet, Rachna?Robyn Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17356555082768185840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-36332737044877501962012-02-28T11:12:28.203-08:002012-02-28T11:12:28.203-08:00I think my earliest influence were the Hindu stori...I think my earliest influence were the Hindu stories of good over evil. I loved those and they filled my mind with what the essense of storytelling was.<br /><br />JaiJai Joshihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858987106548357551noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-31843289777084535902012-02-28T10:36:16.515-08:002012-02-28T10:36:16.515-08:00What a delightful memory to have about your early ...What a delightful memory to have about your early writing influence, Rachna!<br /><br />Reading triggered my passion. I loved being read to as a child, and once I learned to read on my own I devoured every book I could. I loved stories so much that I wanted to write my own! I can't imagine spending my days without at least a little reading and writing in it.Laura S.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13934230198562773803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-79184264078082752112012-02-28T10:28:42.296-08:002012-02-28T10:28:42.296-08:00Aw, your grandmother sounds wonderful. I love that...Aw, your grandmother sounds wonderful. I love that she told you stories!<br /><br />I think my passion came from loving books so much as a teenager. They helped me cope through a lot of bad times, and I wanted to be able to offer someone else that same scene of escape. :)Angela Ackermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01808259088625142389noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-87696648826515747302012-02-28T10:16:38.275-08:002012-02-28T10:16:38.275-08:00My art teachers would push me. They returned proje...My art teachers would push me. They returned projects and told me I could do better. I had an English teacher in the seventh grade who would do the same. I had some amazing teachers who instilled in me to go beyond my talents to better myself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-23386603727270451412012-02-28T10:06:58.614-08:002012-02-28T10:06:58.614-08:00I came to enjoy reading and writing when I was a t...I came to enjoy reading and writing when I was a teenager. Before then, I never read anything. I have no memories of anyone ever reading to me when I was a child, but I remember, when I was a kid, being impressed by my father reading westerns.writing and living by Richard P Hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03814139767151989286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-54326468710425864482012-02-28T09:55:59.186-08:002012-02-28T09:55:59.186-08:00I've been listening to my father tell stories ...I've been listening to my father tell stories all my life. His tend to have the perfect punch line. I think that had a lot to do with it.Kristen Wixtedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06270464973842125576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-56017331239413803952012-02-28T09:13:31.915-08:002012-02-28T09:13:31.915-08:00Great story! I'm not sure what triggered my pa...Great story! I'm not sure what triggered my passion, it's always been there. I suppose my first visit to the library as a kid helped though:)Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01793077012143289985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-91518726814481603792012-02-28T08:44:23.156-08:002012-02-28T08:44:23.156-08:00What a wonderful storyteller your grandmother was ...What a wonderful storyteller your grandmother was :-) My grandmother inspired me,too, but in a different way. She fed my love of reading by buying me books. I still have them. Then, through reading--and wanting to try my hand at stories, too--I came to love writing as well.Kenda Turnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12972218446945404475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-16170130742624931422012-02-28T06:45:34.402-08:002012-02-28T06:45:34.402-08:00I read a lot of the time about writers who began v...I read a lot of the time about writers who began very early on. Basically they’d no sooner learned how to spell and they were making up wee stories. But that was never me. I drifted into it. The school magazine was looking for stuff and so I wrote a hundred poems and submitted them and did much the same the next year. I was at that age when writing poetry might have been considered a phase but once I left school I found that I had developed an urge to write so really it was just getting into the habit of writing that helped me discover that I had a genuine need to write. I’d tried painting and composing music but these modes of expression fell away. The thing I learned was putting things into words made me feel better. It came naturally. I had to work at the other stuff and was never as satisfied with the end results.<br /><br />The single poem that did affect me and gave my poetry a direction was Philip Larkin’s ‘Mr Bleaney’ because it showed me that you could write poetry about the most ordinary of things, the kinds of things I was experiencing. I never really got all that babbling brook stuff.<br /><br>Jim Murdochhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786388638146471193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6083612851716281896.post-8593200145277093572012-02-28T06:05:23.314-08:002012-02-28T06:05:23.314-08:00I used to scribble and never formally wrote till a...I used to scribble and never formally wrote till about a year ago at my wife's behest! I was fond of scribbling notes while I traveled...Rahul Bhatiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09690287853990880735noreply@blogger.com