Hi everyone,
I've finally worked up the nerve to post after lurking about for a little while, and I am thoroughly enjoying the high caliber discussions I've found here. I used to write a little, WAAAAY back when, in high school and college, although it was really just fooling around. Then I trained and worked as a physician - my current day job along with raising my two little girls. Unfortunately, I set aside my writing hobby for a long time. It was only as I spent quiet hours in the middle of the night nursing my second baby that the stories began to swirl around in my head again and I started typing some things out (one handed, of course).
So in the last few years I've been working with a close group of on-line friends who are writers, and I've written a novella length and a novel length story as well as several short stories, although I look at those as my initial learning curve work. Right now I've just started the first work I plan to try to publish - a novel set in ancient Sparta that centers around a girl. Having no formal education in ancient Greece, this has been no easy task thus far. (I'm only about 4000 words in, at present.) My story will have themes of responsibility and strength and weakness and will feature plenty of manly men with scars, for which I have a terrible fondness.
I'm excited to be here because I've learned much already, simply from reading topics here at the forum. There is so much talent here!
Thanks!
c.e.
I've finally worked up the nerve to post after lurking about for a little while, and I am thoroughly enjoying the high caliber discussions I've found here. I used to write a little, WAAAAY back when, in high school and college, although it was really just fooling around. Then I trained and worked as a physician - my current day job along with raising my two little girls. Unfortunately, I set aside my writing hobby for a long time. It was only as I spent quiet hours in the middle of the night nursing my second baby that the stories began to swirl around in my head again and I started typing some things out (one handed, of course).
So in the last few years I've been working with a close group of on-line friends who are writers, and I've written a novella length and a novel length story as well as several short stories, although I look at those as my initial learning curve work. Right now I've just started the first work I plan to try to publish - a novel set in ancient Sparta that centers around a girl. Having no formal education in ancient Greece, this has been no easy task thus far. (I'm only about 4000 words in, at present.) My story will have themes of responsibility and strength and weakness and will feature plenty of manly men with scars, for which I have a terrible fondness.
I'm excited to be here because I've learned much already, simply from reading topics here at the forum. There is so much talent here!
Thanks!
c.e.
aboard. Pull up a chair and get comfy - you're in for a great ride!
c.e. lawson,