Bisky's Twitterling's Scribbles! discussion

Was it when your book was published?

Have you had someone special love your work?

Let me know :3

There was a guy I worked with who enjoyed The Scarlet Ribbon when it was a short story with a chapter every month in my school paper over a year ago. :3

I also had a 3-chapter short story the year before, and my boss loved it. :3

That's a tricky one. Either speaking at the Sydney Writers Festival this year or when Kate Forsyth (a famous Australian Author) sent me a message asking me to talk at another writers festival.

@Josh yay! that sounds so cool! Only one person has read Vermillion and they loved it! It was so nice :3

@Dionne wow! thats amazing! :D

Bisky wrote: "@Josh yay! that sounds so cool! Only one person has read Vermillion and they loved it! It was so nice :3

@Dionne wow! thats amazing! :D"
Thanks :). I might have had my best times already LOL. It was fun while it lasted ;).

Im sure thats not true ;]

@Bisky - Just one reader makes it worth it! :3
@Dionne - That's awesome! It's fun reading in front of a group, but very terrifying.

I just remembered I went to an Open Mic Night back in Fall 2010 with much of my Creative Writing class. I read the first chapter of my old, old novel, and the people there liked it. x3 A guy from the school paper (this is before I joined) was there writing a story for it, and he said in the article that my chapter had an anime-feel to it. :3

Probably when Greg Bear invited us to the Clarion West party at his home, introduced us as authors and told everyone we were doing 'fine work.' It was a great ego-boost, but humbling to have writers good enough to attend the workshop look up to us as published authors.

@Josh That is a compliment! :D

@Micheal so you were sitting in the back wearing sunglasses being all cool and pro ;P

I get these little n9tes on my desk every Monday from a coworker who's now on the 3rd book of my trilogy. The note is usually a line or phrase from one of my novels with a comment after saying "love it!" "beautiful" "genius" etc.

its the little things. :)

aww thats nice! :D

D A wrote: "I get these little n9tes on my desk every Monday from a coworker who's now on the 3rd book of my trilogy. The note is usually a line or phrase from one of my novels with a comment after saying "lov..."

That's awesome! And those 'little' things are what keep us smiling as we go.

It's the little things...holding a copy of a book...getting positive feedback...but I think the best moment was being asked for an autograph by someone. They loved the book, sought me out, rained praise upon me and asked for my goofy signature. I didn't stop smiling for a week. lol.

So this is going to sound slightly silly and overwrought compared to all of these stories of published authors and great feedback, but I'd have to say my favourite moment is when I took the time to write in a park on Vasilyevsky Island in St. Petersburg, Russia. I spend 45 minutes there with my laptop, and it was the best writing I've ever done. I don't know whether it was the roses or the fountain or the peace and quiet, but I felt like every word I wrote was pure gold. I'm constantly striving to recreate that moment.

Gareth wrote: "It's the little things...holding a copy of a book...getting positive feedback...but I think the best moment was being asked for an autograph by someone. They loved the book, sought me out, rained p..."
That's so cool, Gareth!

@Gareth ahh thats great!

@Ethan I wrote 30k on a balcony in Greece that overlooked the sea... Best writing time. Ever.

Funny how where we are effects us :D

@Bisky: Absolutely agreed. I find my writing's the best when I have some sort of connection to natural beauty. I wrote a bunch when I was in Alaska overlooking the snow-coated mountains, and I'm always so inspired when camping, even though my laptop's never there with me.

I want to go there :O

Two things: either getting a tweet from an author I admire (who follows me on a different site) saying "Congrats on your book"...

Or sitting in the pub one night with a few friends and friends-of-friends and one started talking about the book...only for everyone to join in. A few people were talking about it as if I wasn't there and it was just great to see them argue with each other about who they loved/hated.

thats so cool :3 I want my friends to do that soon :]

My highlight is when I pursuaded BettyKrocker to send me cookies from the states :x

But I think thats more of a Twitter achievement :p

Too many highlights. Each time I won a short story competition was special (because they usually came few and far between, and I always thought it would be the last); having my first novella accepted by my publisher when I was convinced it wouldn't fit anyone's list; holding my first self-published, real live book in my hands last week.

I can't wait to see what my next highlight is.

@Ken - wow, that must have felt surreal and perfect at the same time!

They all sound lovely! :3

When some of my poetry was published in a journal, that was a nice one. This year I've taken a huge leap away from teaching English to write full-time and share my work with others. My hope is that I'll have plenty more highlights in my journey as a writer.

I hope so too :]

Bisky wrote: "I hope so too :]"
Thanks Bisky!

The original best moment was realizing I had finished my first novel "Groundfog". It was very hard to write & a steep learning curve.

Thats awesome :3

I had a really weird weekend where I went to a (small...ish) comic con, where I just happen to know the lads that organised it. This con means a lot to me, cos it was going there last year that gave me the kick up the ass I needed to finish writing a book (and publish it.)

This year...I got introduced to ~people~ (pretty high up in the industry) as an author/novellist (the word "awesome" got dropped in there once), I got given out to for not promoting myself better and got guilt-tripped into promising I'd have three books at next year's.

And then got invited to the after-party. I think this gazzumps all other writing highlights.

Thats really cool :3

So far I think my highlight is the review of my novel Missing Time that appeared on nerdspan.com. It's a really good review, check it out!

http://www.nerdspan.com/bookworms-mis...

Last year at a reading I connected with the drunken, poetry-loving audience. At one point I paused and a guy yelled, "Preach it!"

Awesome! :D

Today, a GR reviewer compared my writing style to Joe Abercrombie. As he is one of my favouritest authors, I am in awe to be considered anything like him.

Thats so cool .__.

I have yet to be published. My biggest moment in writing was when I was I had creative writing in college. I had submitted a poem and we had to discuss everyones writing. My professor said " it is not often that someone so young creates a masterpiece, but today we are going to read one, by Vanessa ( my last name) " I was so shocked
And when everyone discussed it, instead of asking what certain parts meant they asked me how it felt to write something like that. I had never before or sense felt so proud or talented as a writer.

Ahh that is amazing! :D I would love that ^-^

I think whenever someone makes me some art out of a tweet/character, that makes me feel all warm and writerly, I'd love some lovely feedback when its out like that :3!

Vanessa wrote: "I have yet to be published. My biggest moment in writing was when I was I had creative writing in college. I had submitted a poem and we had to discuss everyones writing. My professor said " it is ..."


That's awesome...

Thanks ladies. :)

Years ago I had an interesting experience, I entered my book A Foxtrot Through India into a competition in Yorkshire England and I rocked along to the presentation, I hadn't won. All the judges were crowding around the winner when I walked in and one of them asked me who I was I told them my name and she turned to the other judges It's 'Anthony E Thorogood' and everyone of them abandoned the winner and swarmed around me telling me what a brilliant book I had written. After my arrival the winner was just ignored there was plenty of red wine, everyone was drinking white, I tried to drink all the red and answer question after question. They loved my book but I hadn't won because it was too short!!!

Great stories.

Love these stories :)

I once read for the President of Ireland & guests but I still think that first print book in 1996 was the moment I knew this was all I wanted to do