Early writing
Feb. 25th, 2006 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
klwilliamsHere is my entry for "National Embarrass Yourself as an Artist" day:
1. One of the first two poems I ever wrote, when I was 7, and first discovering poetry:
Come and see me,
Come and see me,
Oh, please will you, Daddy?
I knew at the time, on a deep level that I couldn't quite touch, that my poetry wasn't like good poetry, and that I would never be anything but mediocre in the form. About five years later I sold a poem, for the quite good sum of $2.00, yet still felt I was at best mediocre.
2. The opening of my first novel, when I was in the fourth grade:
Chapter 1.
Two boys played happily in a village. It was an out-of-the-way village.
Chapter 2.
[There was a line or two in this chapter, too, but then it fizzled out.]
I was trying to write up a game I had just played with my Raggedy Andys, George and, well, Andy. I decided that writing a novel was just too complex for me right then.
1. One of the first two poems I ever wrote, when I was 7, and first discovering poetry:
Come and see me,
Come and see me,
Oh, please will you, Daddy?
I knew at the time, on a deep level that I couldn't quite touch, that my poetry wasn't like good poetry, and that I would never be anything but mediocre in the form. About five years later I sold a poem, for the quite good sum of $2.00, yet still felt I was at best mediocre.
2. The opening of my first novel, when I was in the fourth grade:
Chapter 1.
Two boys played happily in a village. It was an out-of-the-way village.
Chapter 2.
[There was a line or two in this chapter, too, but then it fizzled out.]
I was trying to write up a game I had just played with my Raggedy Andys, George and, well, Andy. I decided that writing a novel was just too complex for me right then.
