you NEED to watch downton abbey, it's amazing and YEAH IT HAS COBERT
Don’t tempt me! (And don’t encourage @cloudsinmycoffee9, LOL!) I have no time to add multiple seasons of a tv show to my life.
I should be in bed RIGHT NOW because I have a super early day tomorrow but I’m forcing myself to stay awake through the first half of this Monday Night Football game I could care less about (I don’t even know who’s playing!!!) just so I can watch the trailer for The Last Jedi they’re showing at halftime! LOL!
And the new season of Outlander has started so I’m giving up an hour of my life to television every Sunday now (although not next Sunday because mean old Starz is making us wait TWO WEEKS for the next one, which had me actually cursing at the television last night, much to Mr. DKNC’s amusement) so I CANNOT get hooked on watching anything else! :-D
@mrsrobinsong yes i did !!! it's very tedious but i like doing because it's so satisfying in the end aha :) i pick scenes with mostly solid background tho so it's not as hard because i get lazy lol
I was thinking about how talented you are and got curious: when did you start to write? Did you always write? When did you find out you were extremely awesome?
You are very sweet. My history with writing and a bit about how wonderful people like you make me feel about it now under the cut:
I guess I started writing before I ever went to school if you define writing as making up stuff and putting it on paper. I can remember making up songs and little stories when I was too little to write and making my mother write them down so I wouldn’t forget them. Funny thing is I could READ (I just sort of figured reading out when I was three--I’m not sure how exactly) so I’d have Mom give me what she wrote down, and then I’d make her change the things I didn’t like!
As far as writing stories, I started that in elementary school--just for my own entertainment mostly, but I got excited discovered creative writing assignments were a thing--SO MUCH better than math or phonics! In middle school, I wrote a couple plays that my friends and I ended up performing for several classes. I guess I technically wrote my first 2 fanfics in high school--not that I knew it. My English teacher sophomore year was all about creative writing. We had to read 1984 that year, and my friends and I complained so much about the ending, she made one of the open response options on the exam--”Rewrite the ending.” I had to go up and ask for extra paper! (Which I’m sure surprises NO ONE who knows me on here.) I had the same teacher senior year, and she made us write a first person piece as an actual person from history. I didn’t want to be someone famous, so I checked out a book called A Night to Remember about the Titanic and picked a girl from the survivor’s list who wasn’t much older than me, read about her and the other people in the book, and made up a diary for her giving a day by day accounting of her experiences on the voyage through the sinking and rescue by the Carpathia. Pretty sure it was the longest project anybody turned in. BUT the teacher liked enough to enter it in a contest and I got a cash prize. :-) Both of those pieces were pretty much fanfic in retrospect.
In college, I didn’t get to write too many creative pieces because those aren’t the kind of papers I was asked for. I did manage to write a few poems over those 4 years though, and a couple got published in the college’s literary magazine. Then graduate school, a rather demanding job, marriage, and kids came along and I wrote pretty much nothing for years. (I did do a lot of editing--if helping my kids with THEIR writing homework counts!)
I honestly do not remember the last time I wrote any type of fiction prior to Love and Honor, but I’d say it couldn’t be any later than the early 90′s. I made up a LOT of cool bedtime stories in the mid 90′s--mid 2000′s, LOL, but I never wrote those down. I’d just make them up as I went along, and the boys would tell me where I left off each night and I’d continue them for days.
But then I accidentally discovered a couple of really good ASOIAF fanfics online in the summer of 2013 (thanks, @joelyjo and @starkfish!!) and in November, I started L&H. And I haven’t stopped. Well, I’ve “paused” for months at a time because LIFE, but I can’t imagine stopping for years and years again. I enjoy it too much.
As for “extremely awesome”--well, I would apply that term to you and everyone else in this fandom who found my stories, read them, and made me feel that they matter to people other than just me. I honestly feel that y’all have given me back a piece of myself that for years, I didn’t even know I was missing.
Of course, Mr. DKNC now fantasizes that if we ever actually get all three kids raised and fully on their own, we can both retire somewhere on the water, and he’ll fish and I’ll write a bestselling novel allowing us to live in luxury throughout our golden years! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! So, I fear y’all have given him unrealistic expectations, but I am very grateful to every one of you. :-)
Just letting you know that when I need to feel better or heartwarmed I just read a random part of L&H. So thanks again for that!
Oh! This is so sweet!! I never get tired of hearing that people are reading L&H! It has suddenly been getting a bunch of kudos again lately, and I grin every time I see that someone has read that monster and enjoyed it enough to hit that little button.
I want so much to have more time for writing. Hoping that after the Labor Day weekend (when we move #2 back into college for the year), I’ll finally get some more free time! :-)
seeing your posts about scotland made me think of outlander, have you ever watched it?
YES!! I have read all the books and seen both seasons of the tv series! And I LOVE them!! I have a few issues with both, but then I have a few issues with many things, LOL. Doesn’t keep me from enjoying what is a really fun well-imagined tale with great characters!
My husband has watched the tv series with me, actually, and spent most of the first one looking at the scenery of the Scottish Highlands saying “We really need to go there!” HAHAHAHA!!
And then we went! (Not because of Outlander, but it’s still funny.) And as I have quite a few RL friends who are big Outlander fans (books, show, or both), the RIDICULOUSLY large numbers of photos I put on my Facebook (y’all got off easy here on tumblr, LOL) have quite a few of overt Outlander references! I even posted a video from a pub in Inverness in which a young woman on fiddle and young man on guitar played the Skye Boat Song which is used as the theme song for the tv series! :-) And while I never got Mr. DKNC into a kilt, I did get him to pose for a lot of photos with me! I married a very good sport! <3
