Hello!

Hi there!

My name is Pia Sophia (just Pia is fine as well) and I have written my first story when I was about 6 years old. Ever since, I have been writing a lot. Most of my writings have been for myself or, when I found out how to use e-mail as a child, I over-enthusiastically shared every story I made up with my family. I am also a midwife and started a blog on my midwife-life about a year ago. I enjoy writing short stories best. I am currently in the process of publishing a small collection of them soon.

I decided to join this forum because I don't know many writers in real life and am eager to connect with some to share ideas and thoughts and therefore improve my writing. Secondly, English is not my native language and as I do like to write in English I figured this would be a good practice anyway

What else? Introducing myself is not something I'm very good at, so excuse me on this one. Other than writing and catching babies, I enjoy reading (duh). I always have 1001 ideas in my head, but tend to forget a lot of them or get them mixed up before writing them down. So... hi! I am glad to be here and to get to be a member of this apparently huge community.

Hi Kat! Thank you!

My native language is Dutch I write my short stories in Dutch to begin with, and am now translating them to English. Luckily, I have an editor-aunt who translates books to English, so I have excellent help on that front. My short stories are a combination of horror and thriller stories that make you think that the things you have read just can't be true (but they are). Some feel dystopian, but are actually set in this society we live in.

Ha, midwifery as we know it from TV shows is often far from reality, indeed! Not that it makes it less fun to watch, but still. Thank you for showing interest!

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Bridgen, Rookiewriter and regdog: thank you as well!

Kat M said:

One of my favorite professors in college was Dutch! (Still is, actually . . . I saw him yesterday.) That meaningless connection aside . . .
. . . stories that feel dystopian but are actually set in this society, that sounds painfully appropriate for the time we live in.

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Yes, I know. That's why I don't really know how to call them anyway... But you get the picture!
Ha, that's a fun fact about your favorite professor. What did (does?) he teach?

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Thanks, Lakey, L.Y. and Rufio! Glad to make you laugh

Kat M said:

Organ performance/music history. He was also my first ever choir director, which is how I came to know him.

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Nice! What did you study, then, if I may ask? Music?

Chase said:

, Pia.

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Thanks, Chase!

Oh, that's great! I would love to work with young children if I wouldn't be a midwife.

What got me into writing I honestly couldn't say. I have been writing ever since I can remember, basically. My mother once told me that I learned how to read before we were taught the alphabet in school (here in The Netherlands children don't learn to read and write until they're 6-7 years old) and started writing small stories ever since. I went to a Waldorf school and before class started we always had to write and draw about the day before, so we could tell the class about it. I always had a vivid imagination and made everything way more interesting than they actually were, and I guess that is were things started. Then, as I got older, writing became therapeutic. My mother always printed my stories out at work so I could make little 'books' of them and I would hand them out to my family and friends. So writing has always been a part of me, in a way!

What got you into writing?

Haha, so you kind of did went to a Waldorf school after all! Kind of

Oh, that is amazing! Did you ever do something with the stories you told/wrote about her?

Haha, that is just great! I love how something that started when you were a kid still is useful and inspirational to you now.

Oh, my family sure did enjoy them! Or at least they said they did. When I was around 20 years old, I got a huge box full of my old stories that I e-mailed to my grandfather when I was younger. He had printed them all out and put them together so they were book-like. It was very touching. I read them again later and it honestly wasn't as bad as I thought it would be (besides the lack of proper interpunction and often unfinished story lines--but what's to expect from a 7- or 9-year old little girl who first gets introduced to a computer lol).

I know, right! Bless his heart.