My early beginnings with writing were also similar. I got my first rejection at the age of 8 from a magazine called, Kids. My story featured 3 animals as the main characters. All these years later, writing Critters is like coming full circle, but also growing and evolving. And it’s still really really fun.
I love that! That's exactly how I feel whenever I write stories all these years later, that feature animals as the main characters. Things have changed and evolved, but it definitely is like coming full circle, and it creates a very warm sense of nostalgia. That's amazing you were submitting things to magazines when you were only 8, too. I didn't get my first rejection letter until I was 17! Thanks for reading, and thanks for the wonderful Comment... 😎
Yay! Thanks! That is much appreciated. I'm hoping to get some more things released soon. Amazon is a really great place to Publish, and they have a huge pool of readers who are looking for new voices to discover. Good luck with your own book... 😎
Awesome! Looking forward to seeig those. I do love Amazon. I released a haiku cat book a couple months ago and it was fun! Something about releasing that first book. The rush is crazy haha
Absolutely! It's such a great feeling to get work out there, and it's always exciting to see what will happen. I put my first one on Amazon nearly nine years ago. But it was very tricky to do the formatting and things back then. You had to manually write the code for it all to get things to display correctly. It's so much easier now. And it's made publishing really accessible. You can even release paperbacks and hardbacks on there, but I haven't explored that yet... 😎
Yeah imagine is Shakespeare was still alive or something. He'd be mindblown to see how easy it is to publish haha. That's so crazy that you had to code for it!! I haven't done an ebook yet. Only the paperback, lots of playing around with margins haha. I wanna try to put it on hardcover but I'll have to redo another file with different margins.
That is so true! There used to be so many hurdles to get over to ever get a book out, and it was all very closed off, but now the opportunity is there for anyone to grab. It's wonderful. Also, I found your paperback, 'What if Cats Wrote Haikus?', and it looks amazing. Your artwork is incredible... 😎
Yeah!!! It’s so awesome. Def blessed to live in today’s world. And yes!! That’s the one haha. Thank you!! 🥰 I had an Apple Pencil that was sitting in a drawer and I was like hmmm do I hire someone to draw orrrr should I just do it myself. Chose to finally draw again. Took a while though to do it all.
It wasn't writing at first. But little stories told while sculpting and playing with the sculptures as a child. Was one of two things. The one was a plan of a play of a story in stop-motion, False Quest! The grand adventure of a pair of squirms, who at first had no names, referred in the script as assassin and assassin's friend.
The other of a grand multi-generational epic of furry little creatures called twibbles (not tribbles), which is still beyond this teller's capabilities.
As to which was first this teller cannot say, but it is why this teller thinks still of himself as a storyteller rather than a writer.
The writing, the clay they're all just the mediums.
Still this teller reaches his hand to that child, asking him to tell a story again, for his heart and mind are less than his troubled innocent brilliance.
It was lovely to read you sharing, and so, unplanned this was shared in turn.
May all the words flow out from our minds like a river of the unreal, to bring joy to all that read them.
That's amazing! Shortly after YouTube launched, I dabbled a little with stop-motion animation myself, where I used paper and cardboard to make some 3D models of characters, and environments for them to interact with. I think that's what first drew me to your work, because it reminded me of those days. And what's even more of an astonishing coincidence, is that I once wrote a series of children's books, which unfortunately didn't get released, and one of them featured a group of characters with a very similar name to 'twibbles'. I think you're absolutely right, too, that regardless of the medium, the most important thing is that the creativity is being expressed in some way, and the stories are being told. Thanks for reading, and for sharing more about your own writing journey... 😎
My early beginnings with writing were also similar. I got my first rejection at the age of 8 from a magazine called, Kids. My story featured 3 animals as the main characters. All these years later, writing Critters is like coming full circle, but also growing and evolving. And it’s still really really fun.
I love that! That's exactly how I feel whenever I write stories all these years later, that feature animals as the main characters. Things have changed and evolved, but it definitely is like coming full circle, and it creates a very warm sense of nostalgia. That's amazing you were submitting things to magazines when you were only 8, too. I didn't get my first rejection letter until I was 17! Thanks for reading, and thanks for the wonderful Comment... 😎
Tales of the Zeitgeist will be on my order next week! How exciting! Congratulations!
Yay! That is much appreciated. Thanks for your support... 😎
I grabbed a copy!!!! Can't wait to read it!
Also, gonna follow your amazon author acct too <3
Can't wait to put together my own short story book as well!! I have one in the works for sometime next year!
Yay! Thanks! That is much appreciated. I'm hoping to get some more things released soon. Amazon is a really great place to Publish, and they have a huge pool of readers who are looking for new voices to discover. Good luck with your own book... 😎
Awesome! Looking forward to seeig those. I do love Amazon. I released a haiku cat book a couple months ago and it was fun! Something about releasing that first book. The rush is crazy haha
Absolutely! It's such a great feeling to get work out there, and it's always exciting to see what will happen. I put my first one on Amazon nearly nine years ago. But it was very tricky to do the formatting and things back then. You had to manually write the code for it all to get things to display correctly. It's so much easier now. And it's made publishing really accessible. You can even release paperbacks and hardbacks on there, but I haven't explored that yet... 😎
Yeah imagine is Shakespeare was still alive or something. He'd be mindblown to see how easy it is to publish haha. That's so crazy that you had to code for it!! I haven't done an ebook yet. Only the paperback, lots of playing around with margins haha. I wanna try to put it on hardcover but I'll have to redo another file with different margins.
That is so true! There used to be so many hurdles to get over to ever get a book out, and it was all very closed off, but now the opportunity is there for anyone to grab. It's wonderful. Also, I found your paperback, 'What if Cats Wrote Haikus?', and it looks amazing. Your artwork is incredible... 😎
Yeah!!! It’s so awesome. Def blessed to live in today’s world. And yes!! That’s the one haha. Thank you!! 🥰 I had an Apple Pencil that was sitting in a drawer and I was like hmmm do I hire someone to draw orrrr should I just do it myself. Chose to finally draw again. Took a while though to do it all.
It wasn't writing at first. But little stories told while sculpting and playing with the sculptures as a child. Was one of two things. The one was a plan of a play of a story in stop-motion, False Quest! The grand adventure of a pair of squirms, who at first had no names, referred in the script as assassin and assassin's friend.
The other of a grand multi-generational epic of furry little creatures called twibbles (not tribbles), which is still beyond this teller's capabilities.
As to which was first this teller cannot say, but it is why this teller thinks still of himself as a storyteller rather than a writer.
The writing, the clay they're all just the mediums.
Still this teller reaches his hand to that child, asking him to tell a story again, for his heart and mind are less than his troubled innocent brilliance.
It was lovely to read you sharing, and so, unplanned this was shared in turn.
May all the words flow out from our minds like a river of the unreal, to bring joy to all that read them.
That's amazing! Shortly after YouTube launched, I dabbled a little with stop-motion animation myself, where I used paper and cardboard to make some 3D models of characters, and environments for them to interact with. I think that's what first drew me to your work, because it reminded me of those days. And what's even more of an astonishing coincidence, is that I once wrote a series of children's books, which unfortunately didn't get released, and one of them featured a group of characters with a very similar name to 'twibbles'. I think you're absolutely right, too, that regardless of the medium, the most important thing is that the creativity is being expressed in some way, and the stories are being told. Thanks for reading, and for sharing more about your own writing journey... 😎