Hello, everyone. I've been lurking for awhile, signed up for an account about two weeks ago, and am now finally posting my introduction since I finally have a breather moment from work. I am a health care professional with a passion for writing. What little time I have after I've recuperated from a stressful week at work, I focus on writing and hence my lack of love life, but that's another story altogether. I've been writing for as long as I can remember.
While most kids wanted to dance, sing, and act (I was heavily involved in theater growing up), I've always wanted to be a writer. I blame my county for awarding me third place in the Young Author's Fair when I was eight. Since then I've been delusional about one day getting published. In my late teens and early twenties, I bought books upon books on breaking into the market- this was before the internet and internet publishing. Took a major break from writing to focus on my studies. Returned to writing after the death of my beloved grandmother. Writing and my latest muse kept me sane during my time of sorrow. Now, I can't stop writing and would love to take it to the next level. I submitted three different short stories for submissions to an anthology and was rejected on all occasions, citing that my stories were not a fit for the publisher. I am now focused on self-publishing because I've come to realize that there's no market for my writings. I don't write romance although all of my stories contain a romantic element. I write m/m dark/tragedy and sadly no one publishes this genre anymore:-( Every m/m publishers want erotica and for the life of me I can't write it. Honestly, I feel like while it's nice to have a romantic scene and/or sex scene here or there, these scenes should not be thrown in gratuitously. Well, here's hoping that I'll learn a few pointers from others on this board, make some friends, and become a published author along the way. So hello, again, everyone from California! Best of luck to all of us!
susz
While most kids wanted to dance, sing, and act (I was heavily involved in theater growing up), I've always wanted to be a writer. I blame my county for awarding me third place in the Young Author's Fair when I was eight. Since then I've been delusional about one day getting published. In my late teens and early twenties, I bought books upon books on breaking into the market- this was before the internet and internet publishing. Took a major break from writing to focus on my studies. Returned to writing after the death of my beloved grandmother. Writing and my latest muse kept me sane during my time of sorrow. Now, I can't stop writing and would love to take it to the next level. I submitted three different short stories for submissions to an anthology and was rejected on all occasions, citing that my stories were not a fit for the publisher. I am now focused on self-publishing because I've come to realize that there's no market for my writings. I don't write romance although all of my stories contain a romantic element. I write m/m dark/tragedy and sadly no one publishes this genre anymore:-( Every m/m publishers want erotica and for the life of me I can't write it. Honestly, I feel like while it's nice to have a romantic scene and/or sex scene here or there, these scenes should not be thrown in gratuitously. Well, here's hoping that I'll learn a few pointers from others on this board, make some friends, and become a published author along the way. So hello, again, everyone from California! Best of luck to all of us!
susz
