Cathy Covington's Homepage

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I wrote my first children's book for my little sister when I was very young. I made drawings on white paper and stapled them together... I can remember making at least three books this way.

At the end of elementary school I self-published (with the help of Kinko's) a collection of short stories. The most memorable ones included a mouse who journeyed to the moon and a boy who shrank to the size of an action figure while on vacation. Most of it can be classified as "flash fiction," but when written on notebook paper, my classmates thought it looked like an epic.

Around 1998 my websites really started to take off, and I began featuring some of my writing on them. Most of it was related to artificial life games.

In 1999, when I was in 8th grade, an article that I wrote about programming virtual pets in C++ Builder was published in Visual Developer magazine. It was the first piece of writing that I sold, and I was the magazine's youngest contributer ever, which got me a lot of attention.

In 2000... nothin'. I'm sure I wrote some fiction... but everything I can remember stank on ice. Some journalism for the school paper... I was made the Features editor when the 2000-01 school year started.

In 2001

I became the head editor of The Spartan Review (school paper), inheriting an unprecedented drop in interest in the club...

I participated in National Novel Writing month for the first time, and finished my 50,000 words in a month.

I won an english medal at the end of the school year.

I attended the Georgia Governor's Honors Program in Communicative Arts (that's English, folks.)

I remained editor of the school paper but shared the duties with Ann, a junior. I revised the structure of the club and wrote, typeset, and delivered papers... I decided that perhaps journalism was not for me.

National Novel Writing Month again! I finished my second novel draft.

I was one of 18 students in the state of Georgia to be awarded the National Council of Teachers of English Achievement Award in Writing, which was pretty cool.

I won the top school award for the study of English at Honors Day. :)

Woodworks, the Elfwood community ezine, published one of my essays as a feature article. As far as I can determine from feedback, as many as three whole people may have read it there! ;) No, it was actually very exciting. I really enjoyed the editing process --- I think that more editor-author interaction occurs in a good ezine than in a lot of real magazines.

I graduated from high school and moved on to UGA... I am considering a job with the Rude and Bleak... although I suspect that art classes will leave me with little free time on campus. Lots of writing, but it's all for classes... for the sake of my sanity, no NaNoWriMo.