My English Achievements

I was writing stories because I could even write!  When I was little, I used to come up with many ideas for books, but was too young to be able to write them out. I would often draw pictures and leave spaces for the text, and once I'd completed a book full of pictures, I would dictate the story to my mother who would write the information on each page next to the picture.  As a child at school, I was often awarded A's for my creative writing and English became my strongest subject.  I wrote many stories based on an idea I had which was the existence of a wolf like animal with long claws called a Scratcher.  I was obsessed with the idea and soon I had created an entire universe of Scratchers. Desert Scratchers, Fork Nailed Scratchers, Cactus Scratchers, Stick Nailed Scratchers...the list goes on and on.  But like all childhood fantasies, the passion died and went onto something else.  A TV program called Dinosaucers.  I loved it and wrote fan fictional stories to do with that!  That as well, in time, faded away.  However, in the December of 2000, a TV series called Beast Wars was screened on our South African television.  I had seen the program before, and it too had grabbed my imagination, but it was only the second time (years later) when I saw it that it totally hooked me.  I never went anywhere that December and virtually the entire summer holiday was spent in my computer room.  I typed and I typed and I typed.  Before long I had typed four stories ranging from 2 to 45 pages each!  Yes, I was totally hooked.  I surfed the net and came across a Fan Fiction Archive for Beast Wars and was amazed to see so many out there loved to do exactly what I did!  Write fan fiction.  I read many of them, but was dismayed at the fact it had closed down, well, rather it wasn't being updated anymore.  The archives were still there, but I had arrived too late.  The Beast Wars craze was over and the site was dead.  Before my arrival, the site was thriving with over 400 fan fictions and there were Reader's Choice Awards where writers/readers would vote on their favourite tragedy, comedy etc. and the winning writer would receive a gold sticker at the top of their story to show that it was voted the best in a category.  I could only dream of getting one of those.  But along came a spider...  On this site known as Beast Wars Anonymous there was a hyperlink to a still active website.  A Beast Wars, Pokemon and Final Fantasy website.  And surprise, surprise, there were writers writing fan fictions and sending it to be posted on this site for all three of them.  FF, BW and PKM.  This site was Ivyna J. Spyder's Beast Wars, Final Fantasy and Pokemon website.  I sent her my stories and they were pasted up on this huge website, with over five hundred Beast Wars fan fictions and over sixty writers.  Although there were less writers for BW now, they still existed and the Fan Fictional world of BW lived on.  My favourite writer from BWA (Beast Wars Anonymous) was Taratron, and I was pleasantly surprised to see she was still writing and now her stuff was up on Ivyna's site.  So as for the Beast Wars side, I continued sending in my stuff and the rest is history.  Meanwhile, after Formula One races throughout 2001, I had been writing up Race Reports after every race and had pasted them up on a small, but nice little hosted site.  But the nice little hosted site crashed and I was left with no way to expose my work.  My role model at the time was Penelope Pitstop, an F1 British journalist writing for Formula1.co.uk and at that same time, she had stopped working for that site and had created her own.  I went to it and continued reading her reports.  They were and still are truly brilliant.  Then she updated her site one day asking readers whether or not she should continue writing her reports. I e-mailed her pleading that she kept up the good work.  She responded,  I wrote back and soon a friendly relationship developed between me and one of the most famous British Motor Sport journalists.  Lucky me!  And I was to become even luckier as she allowed me to send in my race reports, which she put up on her site in my own little section.  My web name on her site became Peter's Almost Perfect Perspective.  Quite flattering.  She liked Wacky Races, if you're wondering about the name.  Now keen to get my own website up, I built one and which eventually evolved into this site.  As for the Formula One side, I'm working on a site for that too.  So, you see, I'm not all that new to the writing world. My aim was to become a Formula One Journalist, (although now that's changed and I'd rather go into something involving travel) and who knows, maybe I'll be a part time science fiction novelist.  I hope my story proves that with passion, determination and a little luck, dreams do come true.  And it has been with those three elements that I've come this far since the little picture-drawing girl I was years ago.

Academic Achievements:

A's for just about every writing piece I've created since I started school.   (Aren't I boastful?)

I received A's for English term marks at school throughout my life including two 91%'s for two of my high school examinations.  

2001 -  for my English exam I achieved 92% for my paper, 100% for my creative piece and 94% overall.

This year I got...uh...oh hang, I've forgotten and I seriously don't feel like digging up my report card!  ;) 

I came first in the poetry speaking section of The National Creative Youth Arts Festival (2002).  (And I wrote my own poem!!)  I won 75 bucks, but my mother spent it.  :( 

A certificate of credit from the University of New South Wales English Department.

Some of my writing pieces are published on the Internet.    

I have created and still run South Africa's Lord of the Rings website

When I've finished school, I'm planning to study at Rhodes University in a journalism course.

If you'd like to ask me anything, email me at sapphire15@starplace.com

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Disclaimer:

Beast Wars belongs to Hasbro and Kenner and Mainframe and Alliance.  I am just a fan dedicating a website to the TV series they created.  I hold no rights over their characters.  All characters belong to them, except the ones I created. The ones I made are copyrighted to me!  This website and all my own created images belong to me.  Also, I own no rights to the pictures you see on this website except for the ones I created myself.  All Beast Wars images are from various websites that I have collected over the years. Should there be a problem, please e-mail me at sapphire15@starplace.com

This is a personal website and nothing is being used to make money etc.

Thank you.