Hello From Essex, England.

Hello there!

My name is Ben, though feel free to call me Panda. Either is okay with me ^^

Seeing as there are, as far as I know, zero writing groups or anything like that in my area, I decided to look up online ones. That's when I came across this site. It seems like a pretty cool place from what I've seen so far.
A couple of weeks ago I finished the first draft of my first full length novel. It's a fantasy story, though some of it is set in the real world, and is the first part of a series. I'm currently taking some time away from the manuscript before I start the whole editing process and I hate it; I just want to be back in the world I created haha.

Aside from writing, some of my other hobbies and interests include: Drawing and art, reading, comic books, anime and manga, video games, pro-wrestling, TV and movies, photography, music.

I've never been very good at introducing myself so I hope this was okay!

See you around!

Thank you to all of you for the welcome! I'm looking forward to using this site.

As for what my story is about... I'm absolutely terrible at describing it haha. I really should work on a synopsis. It's set in the mid 90s and centres around a girl named Annabelle. She's 15 and lives in a small town in North Yorkshire. Annabelle is a fairly shy and quiet girl and doesn't have much in the way of friends but she's smart, kind, and caring and is much stronger than she knows. After falling asleep in bed one night, she wakes up to see a blue sky above her. She looks up and sees that she is on top of a hill in the countryside; she is in a different world. A kind wizard welcomes her into this world, yet she somehow already knows who this wizard is. After things have been explained to her, Annabelle meets Lauren, a beautiful vampire that is considered one of the best warriors in this world. After exploring some if this world with her two companions, a great and ancient power comes to Annabelle. The wizard believes that she has been chosen to stand against a growing darkness to the north of the world and that's why she has been given these powers. After this, a sinister figure, encased in near unbreakable jet black armour, attacks the town where the protagonists are, killing all that he comes across...
There is a lot more to it but as I said, I suck at explaining it haha.

To be honest it's quite a cliche story in some ways though that doesn't bother me a huge amount as I love writing it. It's a passion project for me. It's been said that you should write a story that you'd want to read. Well, that's what I'm doing