Hello! I'm always looking for more writerly people to talk to so I'm looking forward to spending some time here.
I started writing when I was 16 and then I spent about 6 years writing purely for entertainment with no thought of letting anyone else read my work. Now I've decided that perhaps I would like to publish some of my writing and I'm having trouble shifting my expectations and getting comfortable with letting other people read what I write.
Fantasy is almost the only thing I write, though I have fun mixing other genres in. One of my favorite things I've written is a hardboiled detective story set in the afterlife that was inspired by my love of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler novels. I love writing mystery in general but there usually has to be some kind of fantasy element involved. I just started a new worldbuilding project and I'm having a lot of fun with it. I wish I had a name for the world but I can't decide which culture should get to give it the name that I refer to it by.
I tend to write a lot of LGBT characters because I wish I had known more of them growing up, but that's rarely the main focus of the story or the characters. I like writing disabled characters for similar reasons.
As for non-writing stuff, I'm a biology student living in New York state. I love animals and want to work with them someday. I'm a huge Harry Potter fan and I also love classic literature plus anything that could be considered strange. I'm also something of a movie buff with a love of black and white movies and anything animated.
That's probably more than enough for now. Hopefully I'll talk to you all elsewhere on the forums later.
I started writing when I was 16 and then I spent about 6 years writing purely for entertainment with no thought of letting anyone else read my work. Now I've decided that perhaps I would like to publish some of my writing and I'm having trouble shifting my expectations and getting comfortable with letting other people read what I write.
Fantasy is almost the only thing I write, though I have fun mixing other genres in. One of my favorite things I've written is a hardboiled detective story set in the afterlife that was inspired by my love of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler novels. I love writing mystery in general but there usually has to be some kind of fantasy element involved. I just started a new worldbuilding project and I'm having a lot of fun with it. I wish I had a name for the world but I can't decide which culture should get to give it the name that I refer to it by.
I tend to write a lot of LGBT characters because I wish I had known more of them growing up, but that's rarely the main focus of the story or the characters. I like writing disabled characters for similar reasons.
As for non-writing stuff, I'm a biology student living in New York state. I love animals and want to work with them someday. I'm a huge Harry Potter fan and I also love classic literature plus anything that could be considered strange. I'm also something of a movie buff with a love of black and white movies and anything animated.
That's probably more than enough for now. Hopefully I'll talk to you all elsewhere on the forums later.
Myth Weaver
Vala
Scribe
