Lamar
Dreamer
Hello, everyone.
My name is Lamar. I live in Columbia, Missouri, USA, where I work for the University of Missouri-Columbia. After a number of years of various and sundry difficulties, I have decided to finally get serious about my writing again, and I thought finding a good writers forum would be good to try.
I have written three novels -- yes, that last one is, too! If you sort of squint.... -- plus a role-playing game, which was published as Imago by Multisim in France. I self-published a collection of short fiction a few years ago called Ten Minutes 'til the Savages Come, which I recently re-released as an e-book. I have also fiddled around a bit with screenplays, actually finishing one a few years ago.
I recently started up on another novel, and I'm returning to the fantasy well for this one (my first novel was fantasy; the others were mystery and horror, respectively), which is why Mythic Scribes seemed like an appealing place to hang.
Even though I have a degree in English and came just this close to finishing a degree in Journalism, my reading and writing is pretty much limited to pulp; there's nothing that will kill one's interest in something so fast as getting a degree in it, so I don't have much interest in literary fiction anymore. I am really interested in improving and developing my skills as a writer, though, and I enjoy talking about the craft of writing as much as anything.
That's about it, I suppose. My wife, Stephanie, and I live with her son, Josh, and our escape-prone cat, Cooper. I used to own part of a comic-book/game store in beautiful, downtown Columbia. At my age, I really should have more interesting stories to share. But, anyway, I'm glad to be here and I hope to make some new online friends.
My name is Lamar. I live in Columbia, Missouri, USA, where I work for the University of Missouri-Columbia. After a number of years of various and sundry difficulties, I have decided to finally get serious about my writing again, and I thought finding a good writers forum would be good to try.
I have written three novels -- yes, that last one is, too! If you sort of squint.... -- plus a role-playing game, which was published as Imago by Multisim in France. I self-published a collection of short fiction a few years ago called Ten Minutes 'til the Savages Come, which I recently re-released as an e-book. I have also fiddled around a bit with screenplays, actually finishing one a few years ago.
I recently started up on another novel, and I'm returning to the fantasy well for this one (my first novel was fantasy; the others were mystery and horror, respectively), which is why Mythic Scribes seemed like an appealing place to hang.
Even though I have a degree in English and came just this close to finishing a degree in Journalism, my reading and writing is pretty much limited to pulp; there's nothing that will kill one's interest in something so fast as getting a degree in it, so I don't have much interest in literary fiction anymore. I am really interested in improving and developing my skills as a writer, though, and I enjoy talking about the craft of writing as much as anything.
That's about it, I suppose. My wife, Stephanie, and I live with her son, Josh, and our escape-prone cat, Cooper. I used to own part of a comic-book/game store in beautiful, downtown Columbia. At my age, I really should have more interesting stories to share. But, anyway, I'm glad to be here and I hope to make some new online friends.
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