I'm super excited to have found this group! I'm suddenly feeling shy and weird, so I'm gonna try to push on past that and tell you a bit about me.
I used to obsessively write literary fiction, memoir, poetry, and essays. About six years ago I fell in love with roller derby. Skating and roller derby league management took over my life. I've stopped skating, and I'm getting back into writing now. I've spent the past year writing bits of crap off and on (and OFF), but inspiration recently struck, and I'm really feeling the groove again. I still feel desperately rusty, but the physical and mental aspects of writing no longer feel uncomfortable and foreign. Woo!
I'm currently working on a dystopian project, and I'm suspicious I would enjoy writing YA. I'm also suspicious that I've delved into YA in the past without intending to do so...
I'm on Skype a lot (when I play Mafia Wars on Facebook). Skype has its own set of emoticons. It's gonna take me a little while to get used to the ones we have here, heh. I also have the bad habit of typing with no caps. As a teenager I thought that using that kind of minimalism made me *deep*. Twenty years later, it's just embarrassing. Here's hoping I don't slip.
[I know you're dying to ask.... Yes, the recent WI protests that were nearly in my backyard were an amazing source of (writing) inspiration!]
smooches,
Joanna
I used to obsessively write literary fiction, memoir, poetry, and essays. About six years ago I fell in love with roller derby. Skating and roller derby league management took over my life. I've stopped skating, and I'm getting back into writing now. I've spent the past year writing bits of crap off and on (and OFF), but inspiration recently struck, and I'm really feeling the groove again. I still feel desperately rusty, but the physical and mental aspects of writing no longer feel uncomfortable and foreign. Woo!
I'm currently working on a dystopian project, and I'm suspicious I would enjoy writing YA. I'm also suspicious that I've delved into YA in the past without intending to do so...
I'm on Skype a lot (when I play Mafia Wars on Facebook). Skype has its own set of emoticons. It's gonna take me a little while to get used to the ones we have here, heh. I also have the bad habit of typing with no caps. As a teenager I thought that using that kind of minimalism made me *deep*. Twenty years later, it's just embarrassing. Here's hoping I don't slip.
[I know you're dying to ask.... Yes, the recent WI protests that were nearly in my backyard were an amazing source of (writing) inspiration!]
smooches,
Joanna
