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Comment on Musician is to Garage as Author is to Garret by yawriterinthemaking

yawriterinthemaking — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:29:58 +0000

So I’m guessing you don’t like the new Evanescence’s album? I don’t like the entire thing, but there are a few songs that appeal to me. Did you know they came out with a deluxe edition that has bonus songs? Check out the song Secret Door; I find it absolutely beautiful.

Anyway, when it comes to my writing I’m still in my garage days myself. In fact, I only started writing short stories during a Creative Writing class I took last semester. Before that, I only wrote poetry. I’ve known that I wanted to be a contemporary teen author since high school, but I never knew how I wanted to do it until that writing class last year. It was in that class that I wrote my first original short stories featuring teens and began to find my voice. I also made teens the subject of some of my poetry, an idea that never occured to me until I took that class.

Speaking of fan fiction, I wrote that in a journal when I was in high school. Most of it wasn’t contemporary teen fiction because it was based in alternate universes from video games or cartoons. I think the only bit of contemporary fan fiction I wrote was for a book called The Outsiders. It was that book that inspired me to become a contemporary young adult author and read other contemporary young adult books to inspire me.

When it comes to finding your writing voice, I think it involves trying new things and experimenting. Before last year, I only listened to rock music when I write. Now, I listen to contemporary classical music every now and then. Recently, I’ve realized that I wanted to learn to write a vignette. I’ve reread the book The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cineros for inspiration and found it more understandable and relatable than it was when I was required to read it in high school. A small how-to book on writing vignettes has helped a little too. Finding your voice can be a fun adventure as long as you keep an open mind and listen to your muse.

Comment on Talent Chronicles: The Books by Susan Bischoff

Susan Bischoff — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:13:56 +0000

@Dominick- Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment. I hope you get to read Heroes ‘Til Curfew. Book three, Heroes Under Siege, is in the works right now, and I don’t really have any idea when it will be coming out. But I can say that it’s going well and I’m excited to finish it for you. I definitely have plans for more books after this one, and many more characters. In addition to the state school characters from Impulse Control, there’s a group of crime fighters in the big city no one’s met yet. Thanks so much for your compliments, they really mean a lot. I hope you’ll remember to keep an eye out for Siege.

Comment on Short Story- Impulse Control by Susan Bischoff

Susan Bischoff — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:07:22 +0000

Thank you, Taylor!

Comment on Short Story- Impulse Control by Susan Bischoff

Susan Bischoff — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:07:06 +0000

@Maddy- Lots of stuff happens. Right now (in my head), I’m kind of of working on trying to bring these characters into the Talent Chronicles world from the books, and to reconcile the timeline for both groups of characters. Elle, Ethan, Rand, and Anderson become very important later on. Thanks for wanting to know!

Comment on Musician is to Garage as Author is to Garret by deniz

deniz — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:56:51 +0000

Ooh, all my old work has so many cornball elements to it! Very embarrassing.

Comment on Happy Birthday, @kaitnolan !!! by deniz

deniz — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:49:24 +0000

Hope you had a great birthday week, Kait – except for that one day…

Comment on Musician is to Garage as Author is to Garret by Kelley Lee

Kelley Lee — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 21:17:51 +0000

I was afraid to read while writing for a long time. I felt itchy just wanting to dive into a book, but I didn’t want to be influenced by the writing. During Christmas time I finally broke down and read the entire Vampire Academy series in two days. Afterwards, I felt so relieved. When I went back to writing it was still all my own. That was the moment I was sure I had my own voice. Now I can read, put the book down and write, without the two areas intermixing.

I would say if anything it just inspires me. To finish a book and think…Wow, I want to get closer to finishing my own one of those!

Thanks for the topic!

Comment on Musician is to Garage as Author is to Garret by Susan Bischoff

Susan Bischoff — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:40:45 +0000

Of course he’s best known for his guest appearance as Michael in the 2-part Greetings From Earth episode of Battlestar Galactica in in 1979. No? Just me? Really?
Now when Emergency! comes on TV, Les and I go, Look, Briar, Emergency! and then she walks out of the room. I was totally into that show.
I think my voice/style has come less from what I’ve read and more from what I’ve watched. I made up lots of stories as a kid, mostly from TV shows that weren’t going the way I wanted them to. (Voltron really needs more romance, dammit! And, like Jayne Cobb, Thundarr in my head was smarter and more articulate than what came across on TV.)
Can’t wait to see you tomorrow. I really need to do laundry today and put that playlist together.

Comment on Musician is to Garage as Author is to Garret by Lauralynn Elliott

Lauralynn Elliott — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 16:03:31 +0000

I wrote fanfic when I was a teenager, but I didn’t know that’s what it was. And I always inserted myself into the story so I could be with my latest heartthrob, like Randolph Mantooth that played Johnny Gage in Emergency. LOL.

Finding my voice through reading would have been very hard for me. I read everything from historical romances to horror to science fiction. And everything in between. Maybe that’s why I’m so weird. LOL

And I get to see YOU and KAIT tomorrow!

Comment on Musician is to Garage as Author is to Garret by Susan Bischoff

Susan Bischoff — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:46:08 +0000

Did Pink Hammer enjoy beating the living Nora out of you? She’ll never tell.
PS. Going to see you tomorrow!!!! EEEEE!!!!