Hey folks,
I bumped into a couple of interesting people at Eastercon this year and, now that I've sobered up enough from that most Illustrious event, it's only taken me four weeks to remember what site they were allranting on about recommending. I'm sure it was this one. I blame the real ale.
So to those I've already met, it was good to see you in the flesh and I'll try and remember what you looked like now that I'm staring at your avatars. For those that - were unable to attend/are still too hung over to remember what the hell happened/are unwilling to admit to frequenting such a den of iniquity/don't know or care what Eastercon is (delete as appropriate) - I greet you instead with a virtual grin and a ghostly shake of the paw.
I've had a scout about these forums (I'm terrible at lurking, the keeping quiet element always eludes me – I was the one that always gave the game away by snickering in the closet while playing hide and seek as a child) and am pleased to find that I'm not alone in writing fantasy and sci-fi. I'm an absolute amateur even though I've been thrashing away at the computer for so long that all the letters have worn off the keys.
Utilising the over-exuberant imagination that only the seriously inebriated can command, I have created some startling characters in some very weird places indeed. It is my goal in life to prove that sci-fi and fantasy are simply different sides of the same coin and, as Jeff Goldblum once uttered, that nature finds a way. To that end I am a solid chunk of the way through a ten book series starting 4 billion years ago and concluding with the total annihilation of the universe some 100 billion years from now. And what happens after that.
Now, if I could just find the cigarette packet that I scribbled all this down on, I'm sure I'll be on to a winner...
Oh yeah, I have some flaws - other than the ones glaring at you from this text as you read. Over-writing is my first love, run-on sentences are my mistresses, adjectives and adverbs are my playthings and yet, I'm a gentleman – I rarely start with a bang, preferring a slow build instead. In short, I appear incapable of following the rules generally accepted for writing fiction.
So I'm here learn. And to help where I can.
I bumped into a couple of interesting people at Eastercon this year and, now that I've sobered up enough from that most Illustrious event, it's only taken me four weeks to remember what site they were all
So to those I've already met, it was good to see you in the flesh and I'll try and remember what you looked like now that I'm staring at your avatars. For those that - were unable to attend/are still too hung over to remember what the hell happened/are unwilling to admit to frequenting such a den of iniquity/don't know or care what Eastercon is (delete as appropriate) - I greet you instead with a virtual grin and a ghostly shake of the paw.
I've had a scout about these forums (I'm terrible at lurking, the keeping quiet element always eludes me – I was the one that always gave the game away by snickering in the closet while playing hide and seek as a child) and am pleased to find that I'm not alone in writing fantasy and sci-fi. I'm an absolute amateur even though I've been thrashing away at the computer for so long that all the letters have worn off the keys.
Utilising the over-exuberant imagination that only the seriously inebriated can command, I have created some startling characters in some very weird places indeed. It is my goal in life to prove that sci-fi and fantasy are simply different sides of the same coin and, as Jeff Goldblum once uttered, that nature finds a way. To that end I am a solid chunk of the way through a ten book series starting 4 billion years ago and concluding with the total annihilation of the universe some 100 billion years from now. And what happens after that.
Now, if I could just find the cigarette packet that I scribbled all this down on, I'm sure I'll be on to a winner...
Oh yeah, I have some flaws - other than the ones glaring at you from this text as you read. Over-writing is my first love, run-on sentences are my mistresses, adjectives and adverbs are my playthings and yet, I'm a gentleman – I rarely start with a bang, preferring a slow build instead. In short, I appear incapable of following the rules generally accepted for writing fiction.
So I'm here learn. And to help where I can.
Welcome, hope you like it here! 
