tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post3863506485926862628..comments2024-03-18T17:05:21.126+00:00Comments on An Awfully Big Blog Adventure: The Child is Father (Mother) to the Man (Woman) - by Katherine LangrishUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-62494671533774711262011-03-28T12:29:55.062+01:002011-03-28T12:29:55.062+01:00Thanks for this, Kath. My blog's charting my a...Thanks for this, Kath. My blog's charting my adventures as I move through these phases. It takes a bit of courage to be so public about it because I'm sure I'll look back and cringe, but it's inspiring and encouraging people so I keep on daring to show where I'm at now... and now. <br />It's a treat to read about this growing experience from the perspective of a published author.<br />I do it better every time :o).Lunar Hinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12649116426473034929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-82241545130652216052011-03-24T15:17:29.536+00:002011-03-24T15:17:29.536+00:00Thank you for your nice comments about Midnight Bl...Thank you for your nice comments about Midnight Blue and thanks, too, for looking me up on Facebook.Pauline Fiskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11826696982301252524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-35577933382952852722011-03-24T12:44:48.237+00:002011-03-24T12:44:48.237+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09893130868372847176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-33495191157090211402011-03-21T19:03:38.656+00:002011-03-21T19:03:38.656+00:00Pauline, I know Midnight Blue - it's absolutel...Pauline, I know Midnight Blue - it's absolutely lovely! Thanks for commenting.Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-8130415595982477452011-03-21T12:51:02.383+00:002011-03-21T12:51:02.383+00:00I love what you have to say here. I've been a...I love what you have to say here. I've been a published author of novels for young people for over twenty years now [my novel MIDNIGHT BLUE won the 1991 Smarties Book Prize] but it all began at the age of nine, and the apprenticeship I went through was just the same as what you describe, loving books and trying to write just like the 'proper authors' who had written them. I'd have given anything to have been Emily Bronte and written WUTHERING HEIGHTS. And, like you say, I lived with criticism as a daily fact of life. Doing better next time was what drove me on. <br /><br />Do look me up on paulinefisk.co.uk. I'm new at blogging, and am enjoying discovering what's out there. AN AWFULLYBIGBLOGADVENTURE looks like a great site.Pauline Fiskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11826696982301252524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-8169477193177748382011-03-21T09:04:39.096+00:002011-03-21T09:04:39.096+00:00Kath, what a great post. I am so glad you still ha...Kath, what a great post. I am so glad you still have access to that writing and that you can live in peace with it.<br /><br />And just think, when the University of Texas, Austin, comes knocking on your door for your archive, what a lot you'll have to show them! <br /><br />Me – the archives are empty. I was so self-conscious about my juvenilia that I even wrote my diaries in the third person. Then destroyed them.<br /><br />Now Asgard is out of the stable ...too late to bolt the doors. You'll have to let him be written.michelle lovrichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01026972300195225090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-53714126747237373312011-03-20T20:32:11.093+00:002011-03-20T20:32:11.093+00:00Okay so I am now officially a very 'sad ' ...Okay so I am now officially a very 'sad ' person ....<br /><br /> U.N.C.L.E. stood for the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement. Just don't ask me where that came from, some long forgotten pocket in my brain. <br /><br />Yes, I was an Ilya Kuryakin fan,too. I like the way he has weathered into 'Ducky' in NCIS!<br /><br />I wrote very little when I was young, some angsty teenage poetry that was pretty dark at times and I do have a couple of attempts at science fiction that deserve their place in the bin.Linda Strachanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04354324158228109351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-57561875070570749192011-03-20T16:28:14.738+00:002011-03-20T16:28:14.738+00:00Emma! He is one of my favourites along with Rosema...Emma! He is one of my favourites along with Rosemary Sutcliffe and Andre Norton and a couple of others.Nickyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15442269757463713048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-29264970868103293312011-03-20T14:06:52.319+00:002011-03-20T14:06:52.319+00:00Lovely post Kath - the evolution of a writer. I&#...Lovely post Kath - the evolution of a writer. I'm a always a little surprised though that people genuinely enjoy Alan Garner - when I was a child I couldn't get on with him at all and was convinced it was all a plot hatched by teachers (ours read us The Wierdstone of Bringamen). Maybe I was just the wrong age and should have another go.Emma Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02718171070716804800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-6953471320922351602011-03-20T11:44:11.220+00:002011-03-20T11:44:11.220+00:00But of course! All red-blooded women loved Ilya th...But of course! All red-blooded women loved Ilya the best, eh? You've got me wondering about UNCLE now. I think I used to know but I've forgotten. Was it United Nations something something Espionage?Gillian Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01143802491301982960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-69051113128454612712011-03-20T11:26:00.150+00:002011-03-20T11:26:00.150+00:00Aha - a sort of ur-Seth McGregor, Gillian!
Re t...Aha - a sort of ur-Seth McGregor, Gillian! <br /><br />Re the man from UNCLE (btw what DID that acromym stand for?) I hope you were an Ilya fan?Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-79931779260965509292011-03-20T11:16:49.436+00:002011-03-20T11:16:49.436+00:00PS I too rather like the idea of Asgard. And the S...PS I too rather like the idea of Asgard. And the Space Horses...Gillian Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01143802491301982960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-89840301193561828902011-03-20T11:15:58.146+00:002011-03-20T11:15:58.146+00:00Cat, you've got me worried now! I must ask my ...Cat, you've got me worried now! I must ask my mother where my ancient attempts at fiction are... Kath, you're so right. I like remembering how, as a child, I just started to write and didn't give a toss where it was going - I was having adventures. I stole shamelessly too - the Silver Brumby, Captain Scarlet, the Man From Uncle. (When I tell school classes this, I have to apologise for my extreme age). Then eventually I made up my own Russian spy, and a right babe he was too. It was all AWFUL but I'd still like to see them again, to find out what, if anything, survived into Reel Books... What a fabulous post - I'm fairly wallowing in nostalgia!Gillian Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01143802491301982960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-45146144108055310032011-03-20T09:04:14.889+00:002011-03-20T09:04:14.889+00:00That's awful,Cat! What a very intrusive and h...That's awful,Cat! What a very intrusive and high-handed thing for your mother to have done. I'm so sorry!Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-76288376272152080842011-03-19T22:36:30.879+00:002011-03-19T22:36:30.879+00:00I do not have any of my childhood writing - and th...I do not have any of my childhood writing - and there was rather a lot of it. My mother threw it away, along with all the things I wrote in my early adult life as well. She went ruthlessly through everything that belonged to me while I was far away. Later she destroyed computer disks and, once, an entire book manuscript that was ready to be posted to a reader. She always told me "You will thank me for it one day." <br />I do not. I wish some of it had survived. I have vague memories of some of the earliest writing. I would certainly cringe but I would still like to see it.catdownunderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06959328192182156574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-89476315334279138722011-03-19T17:33:38.937+00:002011-03-19T17:33:38.937+00:00Space Horses, Katherine! Now there's a new id...Space Horses, Katherine! Now there's a new idea! <br /><br />Lynn, I think the reason my bits of writing have survived may be because I was unreasonably secretive about them and hid them away at the bottom of drawers, etc. Anyway, I'm glad thery're still around, and I don't feel the need to burn them - unlike my journals: those are TRULY embarrassing.<br /><br />Liz, I know some of your childhood writing has survived! Poetry, too! :-))Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-29701609039665689092011-03-19T14:03:59.585+00:002011-03-19T14:03:59.585+00:00Thank you for a lovely post, and for sharing snipp...Thank you for a lovely post, and for sharing snippets of "Asgard's Revenge".<br /><br />I think you're absolutely right about this wonderful confidence that children have, which allows them to create without worrying in the moment how it will appeal to others. They just do it, and their enjoyment of the process - something which I think is essential in all arts - gives their writing a freshness and feeds that confidence. <br /><br />(The few pieces of old writing of mine that survived our many, many moves have by now all been burned, shredded, scrunched, or otherwise banished. Now I rather wish I'd kept them, even just to see what was of interest to my young self.)Lynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01674923395134039554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-30508047923856561912011-03-19T14:02:15.127+00:002011-03-19T14:02:15.127+00:00Oh, I love Asgard the Sea Horse! I'll have to ...Oh, I love Asgard the Sea Horse! I'll have to introduce him to the mist horses in my new series sometime... for now the unicorn says hello!<br /><br />I think the writing we do for fun as children is the freest kind, because there are no worries about editors or readers liking it and trying to make a living from it. I based my earliest stories on Black Beauty and other pony stories, later followed by science fiction. Ended up writing fantasy... since very few horses in space!Katherine Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-47492396144694716352011-03-19T13:29:35.507+00:002011-03-19T13:29:35.507+00:00Beautiful post Kath!Beautiful post Kath!Liz Kesslerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12675259815023413448noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-68183019620082903342011-03-19T12:39:24.955+00:002011-03-19T12:39:24.955+00:00Kath, thank you for sharing your early work with u...Kath, thank you for sharing your early work with us. It's brave and inspiring! Mine was all lost in a house move, but even if it hadn't I'm not sure I could share it with the world! I had a world like Narnia that I created when I was about 11 years old - though mine was a terribly dark and unforgiving land. I guess my writing hasn't changed that much after all...<br />Thank you for sharing.Savita Kalhanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07977368691995933130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-58448534704299295212011-03-19T12:22:24.877+00:002011-03-19T12:22:24.877+00:00So true, Kath. And it's lovely to have your fi...So true, Kath. And it's lovely to have your first attempts to look over. I recently found all but the first of mine - and I started with picture books, which I illustrated inadequately. Most are rubbish, of course, but I took the central character from one last year and put him in a new story which might even be published. (Thirty years to write a book 400 words - is it a record?)<br /><br />Thank you for sharing your early writing with us, too - very brave :-)Stroppy Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16560035800075465845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-18944569534739017992011-03-19T12:09:50.102+00:002011-03-19T12:09:50.102+00:00Sorry, messed up my previous comment. Miriam, tha...Sorry, messed up my previous comment. Miriam, thankyou, and I'll bet some of your early lines aren't at ALL bad - like I say, the child is mother to the woman! Love the idea of the illustrations too. <br /><br />Nicky, thanks, but there you go, you probably didn't need quite so much practice! And at least you didn't mangle your favorite authors' styles the way I did...Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-65204681727709350012011-03-19T12:00:40.857+00:002011-03-19T12:00:40.857+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-69049355066429183212011-03-19T11:47:25.746+00:002011-03-19T11:47:25.746+00:00Wow I am so impressed - I read and loved the same ...Wow I am so impressed - I read and loved the same books but was far too lazy to attempt to write any !Nickyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15442269757463713048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7780182174577095197.post-90955555484636851982011-03-19T11:25:15.032+00:002011-03-19T11:25:15.032+00:00Lovely lovely post Kath and I quite agree that its...Lovely lovely post Kath and I quite agree that its great that children just write and don't worry if they are imitating their favourite authors. I have a books of poems I wrote ( and often illsutrated) all through school and I love looking back at them and seeing all those passionate dreamings. One or two of the lines are almost ok too!Miriam Halahmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04935448538608020877noreply@blogger.com