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Hi - I'm Shelley.
Budding author, designer and sometimes fine artist - but mostly these days, when not doing the corporate design shtick, I'm writing. Oddly I was writing way before I started doing the art thing but somehow or another I became known for the art. I am working on changing that.
I've always been a writer, or more correctly, a story teller. I was telling big stories before I could write. I can remember sitting on my grandmothers lap as she would point to things and tell me to tell her "their story". I would make up grand tales for inanimate objects, or birds that nested in the honeysuckle outside the window and rattle on for hours about them. My grandma rocked - it was not until later in life I realized what an amazing gift she had given me by encouraging me to make up such fantastical tales with no limits to my imagination.
When I figured out the whole pencil on paper thing it opened up a whole new world! Fast forward to Jr. High and my introduction to the books of S.E. Hinton and the young adult style of writing (long before it was ever coined as such I am sure) hooked me. I love the rawness of a youthful voice.
Through the years I would dabble in writing here and there but never got serious about it until my mother became ill. She was an amazing writer and had always encouraged me in my writing. I'm not sure why she never finished her work, I think the fear of failing and that "why even bother" mode we can all fall into from time to time derailed her. In me she saw that which she had wanted and wanted it for me as well.
I began to write and send her my work but was still pretty sporadic with it. When my mother passed away a few months later, I realized how short life is and began evaluating the things I had done, and not done, in my own life. Writing a book was high on that list and since then I have been fairly serious about it. I still tend to drag ass from time to time, but I've kept a fairly decent pace and am at a little over 10K words on my novel.
I am at a point in my writing where I am looking for critique groups to be in. I have been involved in a local group that is just getting organized (really excited about that) but being a creature of the internet, I wanted to explore one online as well. This looks like a pretty active group, so I am, as they say in world of poker, all in.
Looking forward to getting to know many of you.
s
Hi - I'm Shelley.
Budding author, designer and sometimes fine artist - but mostly these days, when not doing the corporate design shtick, I'm writing. Oddly I was writing way before I started doing the art thing but somehow or another I became known for the art. I am working on changing that.
I've always been a writer, or more correctly, a story teller. I was telling big stories before I could write. I can remember sitting on my grandmothers lap as she would point to things and tell me to tell her "their story". I would make up grand tales for inanimate objects, or birds that nested in the honeysuckle outside the window and rattle on for hours about them. My grandma rocked - it was not until later in life I realized what an amazing gift she had given me by encouraging me to make up such fantastical tales with no limits to my imagination.
When I figured out the whole pencil on paper thing it opened up a whole new world! Fast forward to Jr. High and my introduction to the books of S.E. Hinton and the young adult style of writing (long before it was ever coined as such I am sure) hooked me. I love the rawness of a youthful voice.
Through the years I would dabble in writing here and there but never got serious about it until my mother became ill. She was an amazing writer and had always encouraged me in my writing. I'm not sure why she never finished her work, I think the fear of failing and that "why even bother" mode we can all fall into from time to time derailed her. In me she saw that which she had wanted and wanted it for me as well.
I began to write and send her my work but was still pretty sporadic with it. When my mother passed away a few months later, I realized how short life is and began evaluating the things I had done, and not done, in my own life. Writing a book was high on that list and since then I have been fairly serious about it. I still tend to drag ass from time to time, but I've kept a fairly decent pace and am at a little over 10K words on my novel.
I am at a point in my writing where I am looking for critique groups to be in. I have been involved in a local group that is just getting organized (really excited about that) but being a creature of the internet, I wanted to explore one online as well. This looks like a pretty active group, so I am, as they say in world of poker, all in.
Looking forward to getting to know many of you.
s