Hi all...
Doing the obligatory greeting/intro post.
I've been writing off and on my entire life, but have recently decided to spend a lot more time on it. I find it makes me happy and relieves some of the stress of the day. I found this forum as a link in a friend's blog.
My last literary publication I used to write was for a Equine Club newsletter. I was told I 'write above people's heads', and am 'too wordy'. Well. I can tell you that actually put quite a damper on my enthusiasm since I had considered myself a decent writer. (I can't type worth a damn tho, consider yourselves warned!)
I also used to be very involved in another forum for personality types (a hobby for me), but opted out a few months ago when it changed for the worse and I no longer felt productive there. Since then I have greatly missed that sense of community I had there and have been looking for another way to connect. I have no idea why I didn't think of a writing forum! But it seems to have found me, and so here I am.
I write many different things, tho not a blog. For some reason I simply cannot write a blog. If you find a dead blog out there it si probably mine. I write poetry, short stories, unbelievably horrible fanfic, sappy love stuff, and more recently, what I have never had the courage to write: a first novel in the suspense genre. If I am to be truthful with myself, I have been writing full stories for years.... in my head. I fall asleep working out the twists and turns, the characters, the feelings and motive of it all... now I'd like to try to get it all on paper.
I know writing is a craft, and for many a honed skill. I need a serious amount of honing. I have good ideas, but not necessarily the skill to express them adequately on paper. I hope to be able to learn.
And with that incredibly wordy intro, I have to get back to work!
~A
Doing the obligatory greeting/intro post.
I've been writing off and on my entire life, but have recently decided to spend a lot more time on it. I find it makes me happy and relieves some of the stress of the day. I found this forum as a link in a friend's blog.
My last literary publication I used to write was for a Equine Club newsletter. I was told I 'write above people's heads', and am 'too wordy'. Well. I can tell you that actually put quite a damper on my enthusiasm since I had considered myself a decent writer. (I can't type worth a damn tho, consider yourselves warned!)
I also used to be very involved in another forum for personality types (a hobby for me), but opted out a few months ago when it changed for the worse and I no longer felt productive there. Since then I have greatly missed that sense of community I had there and have been looking for another way to connect. I have no idea why I didn't think of a writing forum! But it seems to have found me, and so here I am.
I write many different things, tho not a blog. For some reason I simply cannot write a blog. If you find a dead blog out there it si probably mine. I write poetry, short stories, unbelievably horrible fanfic, sappy love stuff, and more recently, what I have never had the courage to write: a first novel in the suspense genre. If I am to be truthful with myself, I have been writing full stories for years.... in my head. I fall asleep working out the twists and turns, the characters, the feelings and motive of it all... now I'd like to try to get it all on paper.
I know writing is a craft, and for many a honed skill. I need a serious amount of honing. I have good ideas, but not necessarily the skill to express them adequately on paper. I hope to be able to learn.
And with that incredibly wordy intro, I have to get back to work!
~A
When we finally have the tech to pull all those stories out of our heads on to paper I'll have my own library. 
