Molly-Louise White

Female 

34

Cancer

Single

05 Aug 2020 15:15

My journey to creative writing began many years ago when I was a voracious reader as a young child. I had this burning desire to write my own stories, but was not equipped with the tools to do so. I can still clearly recall being told in primary school by my Year 6 teacher that I had no imagination. Later in high school English I clashed with my Year 9 teacher and watched my grades plummet. Yet, I was exposed to some literature that captured my heart and still remains fresh in my mind. Romeo and Juliet in Year 10, the essays of James Thurber and other classic readers were followed by King Lear, contemporary playwrights David Williamson (The Club and The Removalists) and Ray Lawler (Summer of the Seventeenth Doll), the poets Judith Wright, Geoffrey Chaucer and John Keats, and classic novelists Jane Austen and Emily Bronte. Through my own reading I discovered a range of popular novels from authors such as Wilbur Smith, Alistair MacLean, Ruth Park, Mark Twain, Colin Thiele, Jules Verne, Mary O’Hara, Ian Fleming, Arthur Hailey, Hammond Innes, Judah Waten, Marcus Clarke, and James Michener – all covering a spectrum of genres and writing styles.

But how was I to ever write a novel of my own? And where were those ideas meant to come from? High school English may have helped my appreciation of literature, but it never gave me the tools to explore my own writing.

As a teenager I began to write my own song lyrics, often adapting the lyrics to existing songs or writing my own lyrics to familiar tunes. These skills developed somewhat as I soaked up influences from popular music, rock and roll and folk songs. Later I began writing my own poetry, exploring a range of styles as I searched for my own voice. As my confidence grew I began to see myself as a poet, but not a writer of longer pieces. There was still a barrier to expressing myself in ways other than relatively short verse.

Much later, I began to explore writing longer prose pieces until that long extinguished ember burst into flame once again. As a mature age student, I now had the drive and the confidence to seek out the tools I required that would allow me to turn myself into a truly creative writer.

Cities I want to visit: London, Paris, New York, Amsterdam

Countries to visit: England, France, Italy, United States, Africa, Brazil, Russia, Scotland

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Oliver Twist
For the Term of His Natural Life
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Space
The Crucible
Down and Out in Paris and London
1984
Wuthering Heights
Pride and Prejudice
To Kill a Mockingbird
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Catch 22
A Tale of Two Cities
From Here to Eternity
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
The Shiralee
Doctor Zhivago
Anna Karenina
The Pickwick Papers
Les Miserables
High Fidelity
Sense and Sensibility
Mansfield Park
Emma
Northanger Abbey
The Book Thief
Hot Little Hands

Casablanca (1942)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
Dr No (1962)
From Russia with Love (1963)
The Pink Panther (1963)
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
Goldfinger (1964)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Thunderball (1965)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
American Graffiti (1973)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)
Storm Boy (1976)
Star Wars (1977)
Every Which Way But Loose (1978)
Grease (1978)
Mad Max (1979)
The Life of Brian (1979)
The Muppet Movie (1979)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
Footloose (1984)
Ghostbusters (1984)
Back to the Future (1985)
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
St Elmo's Fire (1985)
About Last Night (1986)
Crocodile Dundee (1986)
Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Highlander (1986)
Top Gun (1986)
Good Morning Vietnam (1987)
The Princess Bride (1987)
Cocktail (1988)
Crocodile Dundee II (1988)
Ghost (1990)
Stargate (1994)
Apollo 13 (1995)
Toy Story (1995)
While You Were Sleeping (1995)
Clueless (1995)
Emma (1996)
The Wedding Singer (1998)
Forces of Nature (1999)
Galaxy Quest (1999)
Toy Story 2 (1999)
Coyote Ugly (2000)
High Fidelity (2000)
Bridget Jones' Diary (2001)
Serendipity (2001)
Shrek (2001)
Love Actually (2003)
Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
Mansfield Park (2007)
Northanger Abbey (2007)
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
Easy A (2010)
Chalet Girl (2011)
About Time (2013)
The Book Thief (2014)
Divergent (2014)
Insurgent (2015)

Doctor Who, Emmerdale, Game of Thrones

Avril Lavigne, Jewel, Wolf Alice, Gabrielle Aplin, Adele, Taylor Swift, Echosmith, Delta Goodrem

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