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.