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Hi!
{I didn't know what to write, so I wrote a lot. Oops... There are a bilion and two smilies, but no blushy-face? What is this?!}
I came across this site because I was looking for someplace "safe" to post my writing for critique. I picked here because the forum to post your work is password-protected. (Here's to racking up those 50 posts somewhat quickly!)
I'm a 22-year-old undergrad, political science major, with an expected graduation date of Please God, Make It Soon. Grad school is in the near future. I work part-time at two jobs.
Writing-wise: I have a natural gift for writing - I state this because I'm sort of ashamed about it, to be honest. When I picture someone who says they're an amateur writer I picture a teenager with a Livejournal full of bad fan-fiction. (There may have been some bad experiences involved here.) I'm not trying to write the next Lord of the Rings or, God help me, Twilight. I don't think I'm all that. Writing comes naturally to me. I don't write for other people - I rarely share my work and hate doing so. But I've heard it enough times from enough people that I sort of have to sigh and admit that all right, I not only love to write, but I write well. I write so well that I really must stop being a pansy and seriously pursue publication, and stop thinking that wanting to do so makes me arrogant.
I'm currently churning out a realistic fiction novel that I would like to call a "psychological thriller," but I'm not terribly sure what that term means. It's probably a "psychological novel," though again, bit shaky on the definition. It focuses on the metamorphosis of the mentally ill main character as she works her way to wellness. There's an affair with a married man, a missing person case, point-of-view changes, action-packed drama!!, and some poetry sprinkled throughout.
{I didn't know what to write, so I wrote a lot. Oops... There are a bilion and two smilies, but no blushy-face? What is this?!}
I came across this site because I was looking for someplace "safe" to post my writing for critique. I picked here because the forum to post your work is password-protected. (Here's to racking up those 50 posts somewhat quickly!)
I'm a 22-year-old undergrad, political science major, with an expected graduation date of Please God, Make It Soon. Grad school is in the near future. I work part-time at two jobs.
Writing-wise: I have a natural gift for writing - I state this because I'm sort of ashamed about it, to be honest. When I picture someone who says they're an amateur writer I picture a teenager with a Livejournal full of bad fan-fiction. (There may have been some bad experiences involved here.) I'm not trying to write the next Lord of the Rings or, God help me, Twilight. I don't think I'm all that. Writing comes naturally to me. I don't write for other people - I rarely share my work and hate doing so. But I've heard it enough times from enough people that I sort of have to sigh and admit that all right, I not only love to write, but I write well. I write so well that I really must stop being a pansy and seriously pursue publication, and stop thinking that wanting to do so makes me arrogant.
I'm currently churning out a realistic fiction novel that I would like to call a "psychological thriller," but I'm not terribly sure what that term means. It's probably a "psychological novel," though again, bit shaky on the definition. It focuses on the metamorphosis of the mentally ill main character as she works her way to wellness. There's an affair with a married man, a missing person case, point-of-view changes, action-packed drama!!, and some poetry sprinkled throughout.
