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Jan. 17th, 2007 09:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blue_lotus13 Courtney tagged me to spill five things about myself that you may not know.
Here goes-
1. I didn't go to school for part of Grades 4 and 5. I had problems with friends and had a lot of fights at school. My parents pulled me out of school and I studied with a private tutor and went to a therapist. In Grade 5, I switched out of my school to the Catholic school system. My parents and I think now that I was really suffering from severe childhood depression.
2. I think I've wanted to be a writer since I was about 10. I have always been fascinated by writing and tried to write a novel at age 8. I started writing haikus when I was six and the first story that I wrote was called "Zeke the flying Zebra." At age 14, one of my poems won an honourable mention in a contest at the Saskatoon Public Library. That's when I got hooked for life.
3. Before I wanted to be a writer, I wanted to be a special effects technician or a wildlife biologist. I used to love to watch Wild Kingdom, or Lorne Green's New Wilderness with my father. I would collect bits of bone, or blood from meat my mom cooked, or strange things I found outside and look at them under my microscope. I've always loved biology and got a 96 in Grade 11 biology because of my love of animal classification.
4. I'm a bit scared of balloons.
5. When I was 19, I was asked to be a junior writer for the pilot of a television show set in Saskatchewan. I attended story meetings and a press conference, but unfortunately we never got the funding for the show. I got this gig because of author RP MacIntyre, who was one of my earliest writing mentors, and I've acknowledged his support in my upcoming book. I was also a finalist for a YTV achievement award in writing when I was 19. YTV called my house, which freaked the hell out of my dad, in the best way possible.
Tagging- Whoever wants to.
Here goes-
1. I didn't go to school for part of Grades 4 and 5. I had problems with friends and had a lot of fights at school. My parents pulled me out of school and I studied with a private tutor and went to a therapist. In Grade 5, I switched out of my school to the Catholic school system. My parents and I think now that I was really suffering from severe childhood depression.
2. I think I've wanted to be a writer since I was about 10. I have always been fascinated by writing and tried to write a novel at age 8. I started writing haikus when I was six and the first story that I wrote was called "Zeke the flying Zebra." At age 14, one of my poems won an honourable mention in a contest at the Saskatoon Public Library. That's when I got hooked for life.
3. Before I wanted to be a writer, I wanted to be a special effects technician or a wildlife biologist. I used to love to watch Wild Kingdom, or Lorne Green's New Wilderness with my father. I would collect bits of bone, or blood from meat my mom cooked, or strange things I found outside and look at them under my microscope. I've always loved biology and got a 96 in Grade 11 biology because of my love of animal classification.
4. I'm a bit scared of balloons.
5. When I was 19, I was asked to be a junior writer for the pilot of a television show set in Saskatchewan. I attended story meetings and a press conference, but unfortunately we never got the funding for the show. I got this gig because of author RP MacIntyre, who was one of my earliest writing mentors, and I've acknowledged his support in my upcoming book. I was also a finalist for a YTV achievement award in writing when I was 19. YTV called my house, which freaked the hell out of my dad, in the best way possible.
Tagging- Whoever wants to.
