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I've been reading this site for less than a week and it's already one of my favorite writing resources on the Internet. I hope I can eventually pull my own weight, financially and intellectually. I don't really know what to say here but I don't want to be a lurker, so I'll just babble for a minute:

I'm "C. S. Inman" and I go by Sän, which rhymes with John, and no, I don't care if you use the umlaut. I'm completely unpublished, and even though I've finished a handful of novels, I'm only shopping my first right now. The good part is, since I have no agent to forbid me from reading your work, if you want feedback I almost always have time for a good book (but please only send me something polished--I already read enough first drafts through my critique groups.)

I write in many genres, but usually something mixed with SF/F. Right now I'm shopping a fantasy/western. It's kind of fat at 135k because I'm not skilled at trimming my own work (though I can probably do a swank job on yours). If anyone feels ruthless with their red pen and simultaneously interested in gunslingers and natives riding dinosaurs while they shoot demons, by all means PM me so I can lose ~15K from my manuscript. I told it not to eat all that worldbuilding--it went straight to its thighs!

When I'm not being a writer, I'm being an artist (not the good kind--the indie/web comic kind, haha). If you want kind of an idea, there's a sketch dump for characters/concepts from my current book located here: http://thepussinboots.net/csinman/ill/madcatmtn

Thanks again for being here, all of you--this place is so active, fun, and informative that I keep thinking there has to be a catch. Is there a Forum Curse, like "Whosoever typeth upon these forms and clicketh 'Post' shalt suffer the growth of hair upon his tongue?"
 
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Good luck with shopping your first novel. If you look at other crits here, maybe you can find suggestions within them to help you trim your 135k. Welcome!
 

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Thanks for the welcome everyone! I knew this place was as friendly as it looked. (And my tongue, as yet, grows no hair. But we'll see.)

:welcome: to AW, San! All the best with your writing! For such an original subject, your cat has won a catnip mouse. :D

Knowing my cat, one catnip mouse and she'll be back in rehab.
 

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Hi Sän! Your cat writes, too? (Does she work yet? If so, what's your secret?) My cats have the writing thing down, not as elegantly as yours, though. One writes something and the other follows her right across the keyboard spewing edits left and write. Of course they never agree on the edits and then the fur flies. *sigh* It's a never ending struggle.
:e2cat: :e2cat:

Welcome!!!

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Hi Sän! Your cat writes, too? (Does she work yet? If so, what's your secret?)

She uh, contributes. I figure once I am famous for thirty years, I will be allowed to do edgy things like leave her contributions in the text. Hahaha! She'll be dead by then, of course, but if fine art and poetry are anything to go by, becoming famous long after your strange, possibly self-inflicted demise is common enough.
 

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If you're concerned about the bill that comes with the rehab of your cat after the free catnip mouse, you will be pleased to know that it is exchangable for one extra large mug of coffee and one muffin of your choice. :D Of course, you'll have to get the mouse from her first. :tongue
 

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Welcome to the madhouse.

Don't feed the mods. We insist that their environment remain as close to perfectly nature as it can; thus, they must forage for food.
 

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Welcome!!

Is there a Forum Curse, like "Whosoever typeth upon these forms and clicketh 'Post' shalt suffer the growth of hair upon his tongue?"

I can arrange it, if you'd like.


Go to 'Take it Outside' and find the 'Dead Thread'.

Or...you can click on the link in my sig.

The 'Dead Thread' is safer.
 

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Can I track them with radio collars or ear tags?

We encourage it, actually. They can get quite wily, and we like to keep tabs on them when we can.

So they don't eat lurkers, you know.
 
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