Hi. I am OceanMadness and super excited to be here!
(''Ocean madness is no excuse for ocean rudeness!'')
I have been a writer all of my life, though I took nearly a decade hiatus from writing fiction while I was a student. Having fiction back in my life has been a sort of reawakening for me - it's both old hat and brand new. Certainly this is the first time in my life I have ever actively shared my work or written seriously for publication. It is really strange and wonderful to be able to talk to other writers about the process, and to share what I'm doing. That is something I've never done before. I have a minor panic attack every time I share something, but I am getting used to it.
I've been working on a novel for the last year, voraciously (several hours a day) since September 2014. It's long, complex, and definitely the most challenging thing I have ever written. I often feel like what I'm doing is impossible. There have been times I've wanted to throw my laptop out the window. But I keep going anyway because writing is my life, and there is nothing I love more than writing fiction. Me, Scrivener, and a cardboard box to live in - this is all I require for life satisfaction.
The book is a romance, it's fantasy (the first fantasy anything I've ever written) but my style tends more toward realism, with a heavy emphasis on dialog and character development. This isn't a world with magic, just a world where I can play around with the politics and culture at will, so I get to write about poverty, racism, genocide, civil war etc. without boxing myself into reality. I have written 27 Chapters and supposedly have 6 chapters left to write before I finish the first draft, so naturally I am going back to compulsively rewrite everything rather than just finish the damned thing.
Anyhow, I could probably write a novel about writing my novel, so I'll shut up now and let someone else have the floor. Thanks for popping in!
Christy
(''Ocean madness is no excuse for ocean rudeness!'')
I have been a writer all of my life, though I took nearly a decade hiatus from writing fiction while I was a student. Having fiction back in my life has been a sort of reawakening for me - it's both old hat and brand new. Certainly this is the first time in my life I have ever actively shared my work or written seriously for publication. It is really strange and wonderful to be able to talk to other writers about the process, and to share what I'm doing. That is something I've never done before. I have a minor panic attack every time I share something, but I am getting used to it.
I've been working on a novel for the last year, voraciously (several hours a day) since September 2014. It's long, complex, and definitely the most challenging thing I have ever written. I often feel like what I'm doing is impossible. There have been times I've wanted to throw my laptop out the window. But I keep going anyway because writing is my life, and there is nothing I love more than writing fiction. Me, Scrivener, and a cardboard box to live in - this is all I require for life satisfaction.
The book is a romance, it's fantasy (the first fantasy anything I've ever written) but my style tends more toward realism, with a heavy emphasis on dialog and character development. This isn't a world with magic, just a world where I can play around with the politics and culture at will, so I get to write about poverty, racism, genocide, civil war etc. without boxing myself into reality. I have written 27 Chapters and supposedly have 6 chapters left to write before I finish the first draft, so naturally I am going back to compulsively rewrite everything rather than just finish the damned thing.
Anyhow, I could probably write a novel about writing my novel, so I'll shut up now and let someone else have the floor. Thanks for popping in!
Christy
