Hello From The UK

Another Londoner! Welcome! Don't slip on the snow, and help yourself to a cuppa. I've got Jaffa Cakes too.

I'm in West Yorkshire, hello all!

... And on the complete opposite end, I'm from Somerset! Hi everyone!

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... And on the complete opposite end, I'm from Somerset! Hi everyone!

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Hello!

A Londoner here, hey everyone!

Suffolk girl here transplanted to Essex, planning on uprooting to Nottingham (maybe, if it all works out, you know how it is) in the future.

Hi all, checking in from sunny Hull, formerly of Leeds/Bradford, wessie at heart X

Hi all, I am from leafy Hertfordshire, which is the forgotten county just above London and between Essex, Cambridge, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. It is nice here, we get mild summers and winters and we have large areas of countryside and big woods. The perfect place for a young budding Fantasy Author to group up, if you are good at entertaining yourself.

Hey guys, I'm a mongrel being half Scottish, part Irish and English or a half blood as some recent stories would have it. I live in the north of England now near Manchester where people claim to be tough about the weather ..... Until it snows

JWRainsford said:

Hi all, I am from leafy Hertfordshire, which is the forgotten county just above London and between Essex, Cambridge, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire.

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Beautiful area. You can tell I'm jealous...

Defos said:

Hey guys, I'm a mongrel being half Scottish, part Irish and English or a half blood as some recent stories would have it.

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Plenty of us proud mongrels running around. If I ever have to untangle my lineage, it would take some doing...

Defos said:

I live in the north of England now near Manchester where people claim to be tough about the weather ..... Until it snows

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Hopefully there isn't too much snow there.

Hello to all you UKies. I'm originally from Slovenia but I'm currently in Bristol, studying at UoB. Was just wondering if you have any regular get-togethers I could come to.

Not from UK, but am English. Hope I belong

The UK meet-ups get discussed here: http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=157

MartinV said:

Hello to all you UKies. I'm originally from Slovenia but I'm currently in Bristol, studying at UoB. Was just wondering if you have any regular get-togethers I could come to.

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I shall probably be at Bristolcon...

CeeJam said:

Hi - I'm a newbie from Devon, but was born in Shrophire, grew up in Germany, schooled in Kent, Universitied (OOoh look, I made a word) in Sussex, lived in Hertfordshire and Yorkshire, and work in Cornwall. Not well travelled, just tired.

Hello everyone!

CeeJam

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Somerset here - hi!

Hello y'all. I'm a newbie down in Devon too, as it happens. Originally from Cardiff but took a short detour through Oxford.
Glad to meet the thread.

HumSci

Hello all, just signed up. I'm from the Peak District.

Hello from Inverness

Hi

Introduced myself already in the Newbie forum, but didn't realise there was a little UK sub-group lurking on here

I've lived all round the UK, from the Lake District to the south coast, but I'm now back in Inverness, where I went to school.

Writing-wise, I've just finished my first novel, a psychological thriller aimed at the quality women's fiction market - not so much an Aga saga, more a rusty Rayburn with something nasty luring in the grate

I've sent my first full manuscript out, so am confidently expecting it to coming winging its way back very shortly...

Looking forward to getting to know folks here and swapping writing sagas.

Hello.

I'm in Yorkshire, Essex originally.
I'm writing a YA historical - just finished 2nd draft.

Good luck with your submission, MM Kirk!

Thanks, Spinningwheel! I went to the Festival of Writing in York last September - it was run by the Writers' Workshop and included in the price were two x ten minute sessions with agents (had to submit a synopsis and first chapter beforehand).

To my amazement, both agents I saw said they wanted to see more, so I've sent off the first of these this week. Not convinced anything will come of it, but you never know

YA historical sounds really interesting - which period?

MM Kirk said:

I went to the Festival of Writing in York last September - it was run by the Writers' Workshop

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Congrats on the agent interest!!

What's the deal with the Writers' Workshop? Do people often use them for editing etc? Is it a good idea?

Also - the Festival of Writing - worth going to, d'you think? I'm not sure I'd know what to do there!

Heh, sorry, questions

That's brilliant MM Kirk!

I'm doing Tudor - 1537.
My characters are northern Catholics rather than these rational southern Reformist types who feature so heavily in various successful books about the period. They believe in relics.

Ooh, the Percys? Great period. It's one of those 'what if' periods, isn't it? What if Anne Boleyn had been allowed to marry young Percy a few years earlier, etc., etc?

Sounds fascinating - best of luck with it!

Hi

I would very much recommend both the Writers' Workshop critiques and the events they run.

The critiques are...not cheap, but they compare favourably with most other agencies, and they have a good range of people working for them, with a fair sprinkling of published authors.

The events - again, they're not cheap, but the workshops and agent panels are interesting, and once you feel you're ready to submit, I think a couple of one-to-ones with a real, live agent have got to be worth investing in.

I would say, wait until you think you've taken your work as far as you can yourself, maybe get a beta-reader or two if possible, and then see what you think about attending an event.

All I have to go on is my own experience, but so far my dealings with them have been very positive.