Sheila Bender's literary magazine Writing It Real interviewed me about my freelance and novel writing, and I'd love to be able to share it. I feel it came out well and I covered quite a few bases with it. In it I talk about how I got started writing, what I've done, and what I still hope to accomplish. Since there's still a lot I hope to accomplish, I'm seeing what I can do to publicize this interview in case it might help.
Please read it here, and thanks!
Welcome to the blog of writer Danica Davidson! Please visit me at www.danicadavidson.com.
Showing posts with label YA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label YA. Show all posts
Friday, December 24, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Why I Write and What Is My Process
I know this may sound like a cliché to writers, but I never chose to write. Writing chose me. I started telling stories not long after I could talk, and, by the time I was three, my parents starting writing down the stories I would dictate.
They were simple stories, and usually about cute animals or dinosaurs, but they had plots. Back then, I didn’t think of myself as a writer. I just knew there were stories going through my head and I would tell them. Eventually, I started writing the stories down myself. They kept getting longer and longer. When I was in second grade, I wrote a long story called White Beauty. It’s not something that I would ever, ever think of publishing, but it was good practice, and it gave me more confidence in myself.
I’ve never really had a schedule for writing; the words just come, and I have to get them down on paper. As a sixth grader, I turned in a vampire chapter book for my English Halloween assignment. It got read to the class and they were completely caught up in it. It made me feel great that I wrote something other people liked. From there I brought my stories to school and passed them out to a growing number of students and teachers who requested them.
When I was an eighth grader, both the Burbank Leader and Los Angeles Times stepped in and wrote articles about me. Since then I’ve become a professional freelance writer. I’m no longer in school, and it pays the bills.
I’ve lost count of how many articles I’ve published, though I know it’s in the hundreds, and I’ve also done freelance work writing the English adaptation for Japanese graphic novels. But none of this has changed my love for fiction and storytelling. I still write fiction regularly and am actively pursuing a career in that, networking and trying to meet as many people as I can in the publishing industry.
The piece I’m attempting to sell first is a YA novel that’s something along the lines of “mythology meets high school.” There’s nothing out there that’s been as personally rewarding to me as my writing, and I’m glad it’s such a big part of my life.
*This was previously published on writer Anjuelle Floyd's site, http://www.anjuellefloyd.com/. The invitation was for me to describe why I wrote and my writing process.
They were simple stories, and usually about cute animals or dinosaurs, but they had plots. Back then, I didn’t think of myself as a writer. I just knew there were stories going through my head and I would tell them. Eventually, I started writing the stories down myself. They kept getting longer and longer. When I was in second grade, I wrote a long story called White Beauty. It’s not something that I would ever, ever think of publishing, but it was good practice, and it gave me more confidence in myself.
I’ve never really had a schedule for writing; the words just come, and I have to get them down on paper. As a sixth grader, I turned in a vampire chapter book for my English Halloween assignment. It got read to the class and they were completely caught up in it. It made me feel great that I wrote something other people liked. From there I brought my stories to school and passed them out to a growing number of students and teachers who requested them.
When I was an eighth grader, both the Burbank Leader and Los Angeles Times stepped in and wrote articles about me. Since then I’ve become a professional freelance writer. I’m no longer in school, and it pays the bills.
I’ve lost count of how many articles I’ve published, though I know it’s in the hundreds, and I’ve also done freelance work writing the English adaptation for Japanese graphic novels. But none of this has changed my love for fiction and storytelling. I still write fiction regularly and am actively pursuing a career in that, networking and trying to meet as many people as I can in the publishing industry.
The piece I’m attempting to sell first is a YA novel that’s something along the lines of “mythology meets high school.” There’s nothing out there that’s been as personally rewarding to me as my writing, and I’m glad it’s such a big part of my life.
*This was previously published on writer Anjuelle Floyd's site, http://www.anjuellefloyd.com/. The invitation was for me to describe why I wrote and my writing process.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
About Me
My name is Danica Davidson and I started writing before I even knew how. That's because back when I was about three I was dictating or just telling stories to myself or to other people. Flash forward to the present and I'm working to make writing my whole life. Since 2004 I've been a professional writer (that means they actually pay me to do what I love!) by contributing to more than thirty magazines, websites and newspapers. Each day I write articles that go on to be published, and now I have a few hundred articles to my name. I've also written the English adaptation of Japanese books.
All this is fun, but my main goal is to be a professional novelist. Yes, it's true. And it's not a new goal, either. I do have a complete YA novel I want to sell, and while I don't feel comfortable describing it online where anyone can read it, please feel free to email me if you're a professional and you're curious to hear more.
Before I go, I wanted to share an article that was published about me in the Los Angeles Times:
http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jul/12/local/me-51579
Thanks for reading!
Warmly,
Danica
All this is fun, but my main goal is to be a professional novelist. Yes, it's true. And it's not a new goal, either. I do have a complete YA novel I want to sell, and while I don't feel comfortable describing it online where anyone can read it, please feel free to email me if you're a professional and you're curious to hear more.
Before I go, I wanted to share an article that was published about me in the Los Angeles Times:
http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jul/12/local/me-51579
Thanks for reading!
Warmly,
Danica
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