Histories and Mysteries

In the last article , I wrote about my writing in my elementary years. Today, I am going to continue that series with how I began to seriously consider writing as a hobby in my teenage years. And first of all, down below I have written about how I came to writing this story. I continued writing random short stories through junior high. In eighth grade, I met one of my closest friends, Triniti (she blogs at TAJ News Blog ), and we corresponded through letters at that time. We mostly talked about books and in one letter I mentioned a play I wrote about the Civil War (the American one, not the Captain America one). She replied with whether we could actually perform the play which we couldn't because it had too many characters to fill. But I told her that I would write a play for her family and my family to perform. I thought to a childhood game/story called "Spy Mission" that I played with a few of my friends. We would have agent names and run around with play weapons...

  It is Thanksgiving weekend once again and that means that I will be putting up my Christmas tree this week (*turns on Christmas music and starts celebrating*). So it's not Christmas quite yet, but the holidays are quickly approaching and I am just feeling all of the excitement. I seriously had a dream that I was writing Christmas cards to my friends in the middle of August. In my article last year, I wrote " 10 Interesting Facts about Plymouth ." In that article, I mentioned how some historians consider Pedro Menéndez de Avilé, a Spanish explorer, to have had the first “Thanksgiving” by inviting the Timucua tribe for a feast in St. Augustine, Florida. In that previous article, I expressed the thought that those who chose to undermine the Pilgrim's Thanksgiving were most likely just trying to ignore the religious significance of this holiday. As our culture becomes more secular, it will continue to do this. But actually when I did research on this story, I re...

   Today's article is about "My Writing Story" aka "The History of How I Happened to Begin Creative Writing as a Hobby." I was just attempting to give this article a longer title just like some of the older history books. Just pretend that this is a history article, but only about me. :) Part 2 will be posted in two weeks after a special Thanksgiving article.   My brother and I wrote scripts about our stuffed animals since I was eight years old. They were about ten pages and as I look back on them now, they are filled with a lot of strange aspects and discrepancies in the story. I may write an article on those problems later. But that was my first start in writing dialogue and even today those stories give me an example of light-hearted dialogue.    In fifth grade, I had a few assignments for Penmanship class to write a story from a prompt they would give. One of those prompts had to do with a person walking down a dark and silent hallw...

  Hello there. Welcome to Histories and Mysteries! And welcome back if you are a weekly follower! I just had the sudden urge to quote Obi-Wan/Old Ben, so there it is. Today's article marks the beginning of National Novel Writing Month. Last year, I primarily posted about books and blogging. This year, I have planned three articles about my writing. Next week and the last week of the month, I will be writing about my writing story. I will began by giving a brief history of how I began writing this novel. You may see this repeated in an upcoming article. After I will include my synopsis and other important facts about the novel (genre, progress, temporary cover, etc.) History  History: This novel was originally planned to precede the stories I was writing in my plays. I wrote a few plays (two I performed with my friends) about these secret agents who had a very bad issue with Russian double agents in their organization. These plays were inspired b...