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Hi,
I’ve been writing conscientiously but umm, avocationally, since retiring as a professional scientist (biomedical research) a few years ago — no more scientific papers or grant applications. Although I did a degree in my youth in English as well as Biology, it was only after I became a grandfather that I started writing for fun in earnest while recovering from cancer in 2018. I embarked on a daily journal of life in our local Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (see signature) from our smallholding here in the Border Region of England’s last wilderness. But I really wanted to write a novel.
So after the ‘year in the life of a village,’ I embarked on a science fiction adventure (hard, not fantasy, that turned into climate fiction — who knew?). As an expatriate Canadian, my favourite writer is Margaret Atwood, but I read a lot of nonfiction like Yuval Noah Harare or Richard Dawkins, and my next big read really should be James Lovelock’s Novacene.
After attending an Arvon Foundation writers’ retreat for some helpful advice from a pair of wonderful novelists, I joined a local Creative Writing group with which I’ve shared critique and empathy over the past two years. During that time I completed my first novel, and following advice from JerichoWriters on independent publishing, I wrote another, initially a freebie. I’m beginning the third of the series and hoping to complete it, with helpful support on characterisation, narrative arc, and enhanced craft, early in ’22.
I want this third volume to be the best, really, and I’m looking for a novel-writing community to share larger projects with. So I hope I’m prepared to help other struggling writers on their journey, and also to be receptive to some good advice at the same time.
Looking forward to exploring the forums, and thanks for the welcome Mac!
cheers
Larry Winger
AllendaleDiary.org
BiomeNE47.com
I’ve been writing conscientiously but umm, avocationally, since retiring as a professional scientist (biomedical research) a few years ago — no more scientific papers or grant applications. Although I did a degree in my youth in English as well as Biology, it was only after I became a grandfather that I started writing for fun in earnest while recovering from cancer in 2018. I embarked on a daily journal of life in our local Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (see signature) from our smallholding here in the Border Region of England’s last wilderness. But I really wanted to write a novel.
So after the ‘year in the life of a village,’ I embarked on a science fiction adventure (hard, not fantasy, that turned into climate fiction — who knew?). As an expatriate Canadian, my favourite writer is Margaret Atwood, but I read a lot of nonfiction like Yuval Noah Harare or Richard Dawkins, and my next big read really should be James Lovelock’s Novacene.
After attending an Arvon Foundation writers’ retreat for some helpful advice from a pair of wonderful novelists, I joined a local Creative Writing group with which I’ve shared critique and empathy over the past two years. During that time I completed my first novel, and following advice from JerichoWriters on independent publishing, I wrote another, initially a freebie. I’m beginning the third of the series and hoping to complete it, with helpful support on characterisation, narrative arc, and enhanced craft, early in ’22.
I want this third volume to be the best, really, and I’m looking for a novel-writing community to share larger projects with. So I hope I’m prepared to help other struggling writers on their journey, and also to be receptive to some good advice at the same time.
Looking forward to exploring the forums, and thanks for the welcome Mac!
cheers
Larry Winger
AllendaleDiary.org
BiomeNE47.com
