Amanda Nelson Biography

I really only got into writing poetry very avidly in the beginning of 2009 (this year.)
English has always been one of my favorite subjects and I find it quite easy and enjoy it. I had my first webs.com blog for awhile before I shut it down. Only my best friends read it but they seemed to find it amusing. Then I went on to have several other blogger.com blogs.

And I've always daydreamed constantly, chattered on and on, and always had dozens of opinions I was so very eager to voice. And whenever we were required to write little poems, haiku, or anything related to writing mine were always rather good for my age.

One summer when my family had moved into a new house, we didn't have the internet hooked up for awhile or the TV. I was bored out of my mind and just swimming all day didn't cut it for my short attention span. I began messing around on Word Document on the computer.

I couldn't e-mail, IM, rant, blog, or express myself in anyway other than writing on Word Document. I ended up starting a novel (still unfinished) and writing dutifully for it everyday until we had internet access again.

I'd always written little rhyming parts of lyrics in all my notebooks before, but I never thought so much of it.

I forgot all about the novel (called Pink=Puke) and only later, next year, did I pull it out again after my teacher had written on both my 1st and 2nd trimester comments about my writing. Things about how I take chances in it and he's eager to see how far I can go.

I sent it to one of my best friends and she replied back wanting to know who it was by. I was utterly shocked that she thought it was an actual excerpt from a real published book. I explained that I had written it and she said she'd sent it to some of her other friends and they all thought it was magnificent.

Another best friend, who I mainly contact through e-mail since we go to different schools, said she thought I would be a good author just randomly. By then, I'd started writing and had a few poems and unfinished novels. I'd never mentioned my writing to her or showed her any of my work but I wrote tons in our e-mails back and forth about this and that and the most random things.

So, I told her that I did write and the next thing I did was gather all my writing, sum it up in one message and forward it to all my besties.

They were all impressed and agreed that writing was a talent of mine.

Since then, I've written a lot and have gotten much better. I write poetry and have a ton of unfinished novels.

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