Hi 
I'm 20, I'm from Portugal, yeah our economy isn't that great.
I'm going to be explaining how I am now, where I came from and where I want to go, this maybe long, TL;DR in the end
I'm unemployed, I have a Technician degree in IT but there are few if any jobs around here, and no one will hire me because I have no experience, both in IT an other areas.
I always loved reading even though I usually didn't have the possibility to do so, I always lived far away from the city so I didn't have access to a library and my parents didn't have a lot of money, however I grew up reading Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter. The Sherlock Holmes books that I read were around 30 years old, my grandparents had bought them for my dad when he was a teenager. I love old books, the yellowish pages, the cracks on the cover, the dents on the corners of the pages and stains tell a story by themselves.
Now with internet I've done a lot of research, J. R. R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Arthur C. Clarke and recently George R. R. Martin have become some my favourite writers, though I haven't read much of their work, I use glasses and try not to read too much on my laptop and I don't want to read translations or their work, now that I speak English, I don't have much money so I can't buy the books (though I saw all the LOTR movies and look forward to watching The Hobbit trilogy as well. I also watched the Narnia movies and watch the Game of Thrones series), but to read about their writing processes and who they were, it amazes me and inspires me.
About where I want to go... My dream is to create a company in domotics, I want to make intelligent houses, the kind that you can talk to, and if I had founding and a good team I believe I could make a prototype in a about one year and a half, I have hundreds of systems and thousands of schematics in my head and have though about them from the tiniest detail to the overall design and UIs.
But my hopes of realizing that are diminishing and I don't see how I could make the company.
When I was a kid I loved to read, as previously mentioned, but because I couldn't read a lot I usually wrote a lot of stories as well, most of them few pages long, sometimes I would have ideas for books and started to write them, but I had a lot of troubles in my upbringing and still do now, and I never finished the books.
I've had a depression for over 5 years, but now I really want to finish writing a book, several books actually.
So right now I'm writing 3 books at the same time, a sci-fi novel, a novel and a teenage drama/romance, I'm thinking about starting to work on a fantasy universe too and I want to do it the Tolkien way, minus creating whole languages.
So yeah, that's who I am and what I'm doing.
TL;DR: I'm 20, I'm unemployed and I'm trying to write 3 books at the same time and I think I'm going to had a 4th soon.
I hope I didn't bore you too much, thank you for reading
PS: Why is Tolkien marked as a mistake?! -.-
EDIT: Took out the description of the progress of my books, going to make new post.
I'm 20, I'm from Portugal, yeah our economy isn't that great.I'm going to be explaining how I am now, where I came from and where I want to go, this maybe long, TL;DR in the end
I'm unemployed, I have a Technician degree in IT but there are few if any jobs around here, and no one will hire me because I have no experience, both in IT an other areas.
I always loved reading even though I usually didn't have the possibility to do so, I always lived far away from the city so I didn't have access to a library and my parents didn't have a lot of money, however I grew up reading Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter. The Sherlock Holmes books that I read were around 30 years old, my grandparents had bought them for my dad when he was a teenager. I love old books, the yellowish pages, the cracks on the cover, the dents on the corners of the pages and stains tell a story by themselves.
Now with internet I've done a lot of research, J. R. R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Arthur C. Clarke and recently George R. R. Martin have become some my favourite writers, though I haven't read much of their work, I use glasses and try not to read too much on my laptop and I don't want to read translations or their work, now that I speak English, I don't have much money so I can't buy the books (though I saw all the LOTR movies and look forward to watching The Hobbit trilogy as well. I also watched the Narnia movies and watch the Game of Thrones series), but to read about their writing processes and who they were, it amazes me and inspires me.
About where I want to go... My dream is to create a company in domotics, I want to make intelligent houses, the kind that you can talk to, and if I had founding and a good team I believe I could make a prototype in a about one year and a half, I have hundreds of systems and thousands of schematics in my head and have though about them from the tiniest detail to the overall design and UIs.
But my hopes of realizing that are diminishing and I don't see how I could make the company.
When I was a kid I loved to read, as previously mentioned, but because I couldn't read a lot I usually wrote a lot of stories as well, most of them few pages long, sometimes I would have ideas for books and started to write them, but I had a lot of troubles in my upbringing and still do now, and I never finished the books.
I've had a depression for over 5 years, but now I really want to finish writing a book, several books actually.
So right now I'm writing 3 books at the same time, a sci-fi novel, a novel and a teenage drama/romance, I'm thinking about starting to work on a fantasy universe too and I want to do it the Tolkien way, minus creating whole languages.
So yeah, that's who I am and what I'm doing.
TL;DR: I'm 20, I'm unemployed and I'm trying to write 3 books at the same time and I think I'm going to had a 4th soon.
I hope I didn't bore you too much, thank you for reading
PS: Why is Tolkien marked as a mistake?! -.-
EDIT: Took out the description of the progress of my books, going to make new post.
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