In the Booth with Ruth – Darren Sant, Author
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In the Booth with Ruth – Christine Stark, Author & Visual Artist
I loved to write at a young age. In elementary school, I wrote pages and pages of stories, such that one of my teachers finally limited me to one sheet per story. When I filled up both sides, I just went on looping the story in the margins. Also, since my parents were not fit to parent, I basically looked to stories to teach me about the world, about how to be in the world, as I did not want to be like my parents...
In the Booth with Ruth – Ed Griffin, Author
In the Booth with Ruth – Tom Gillespie, Author
I’m really not a fan of the word ‘genre’. There’s something rather obscene about compartmentalising creativity into neat and conveniently dull categories. Genres are the evil machinations over ambitious marketing graduates, and are designed to make it easier for publishing houses and film companies to sell their wares and boost flagging profits. I think...
In the Booth with Ruth – Debra Jayne East, Author
In the Booth with Ruth – Martin Reaves, Author
I’ve been a voracious reader as far back as I can remember. Stories captivated me. Eventually, I realized that writing my own stuff was the ultimate “choose your own adventure”. The realization that I could make up my own stories was (and is) intoxicating. The first thing I clearly remember writing is a horror story titled The Thing in the Closet. This would...
In the Booth with Ruth – Ashley Nemer, Author
I started writing when I was a teen, around 7th grade, but I didn’t write fictional prose until the past few years. My previous works were poetry, things that were on my mind at the time and feelings I had to express. My emotions inspire me the most. Some days I can write 5000 words just because I needed a good cry or had the best news and can’t stop laughing...
In the Booth with Ruth – Victoria Watson, Author
In the Booth with Ruth – Martin Crosbie, Author
I like the grand, sweeping stories of a person’s life, or at least a significant period of the person’s life. I want to read The World According to Garp, or Life of Pi, or David Copperfield. And when you read those types of books, sometimes there’s a little bit of everything in them. That’s what I like to read so I guess that’s why my writing ends up there too...
In the Booth with Ruth – Andrew Scorah, Author
Ever since I can remember, I have read books. A comment from one of my early school reports stated I was quite happy to sit in the little class library reading. The first story I ever wrote, I must have been about twelve I think, it was for a school writing competition. The winner got his story in the school magazine - my story won. I used to write a lot of stuff..
In the Booth with Ruth – Sharon McGovern, Author, Broadcaster & Anti-Abuse Campaigner
I have no formal background in writing at all. I first began writing poetry and words as a child - it helped me cope with the abuse. My first poem was written at seven years old, a very morose and depressed poem of a soul destroyed. I remember mum reading it and telling a neighbour that she was worried I always seemed to look at the negative side of life...
In the Booth with Ruth – Steve Christie, Author
I’ve never really been one for setting a particular time of day aside for writing. It doesn’t work for me. You can’t just expect inspiration to hit you when you want it to. So, I prefer to write on the go so to speak. I use my iPod to jot down pieces of my story throughout the day then I spend the evening expanding on it...
In the Booth with Ruth – Tom Evans, Author
I met a chap who gave me four DVD's of esoteric information a few years ago. He said, "You'll know what to do with this" - and then kind of disappeared. I am driven at reverse engineering how we got here and came to ask the question, "Why are we here?". I am getting close to some answers and am finding the truth is stranger than we think...
In the Booth with Ruth – Andrew Peters, Author
I got a Kindle in May and downloaded some stuff, including some VERY highly rated “laugh out loud” stuff, which I though was about as funny as piles. I discovered later that the “laugh out loud” thing is a guarantee of humourlessness. Being an arrogant swine, I decided to write my own comedy book and make millions, since it seemed so easy...
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