Quillstine
Troubadour
You can’t stay on the shore forever, so I guess it’s time I got my toes in the surf! I've been writing since before I could walk, well okay that’s a rather drastic embellishment, but isn't that a liberty writers are allowed to take?
I have been writing for myself for as long as I can remember. I love it, to create a world and escape into something so fully. To sit at the end of a long day and scroll past thousands of words that’s have emanated from the tips of my very fingers, it’s amazing. That and I like my written friends a lot more then my real ones! But I am one of those, as I am sure all have once been, who suffer from the idea that to take it any further is just an ill-considered dream. Best leave that desire in its scabbard, where the pointy end can’t get anyone hurt.
So my stories sit and gather virtual dust once I am done with them, slowly chocking up a hard drive that’s now so old, it whirrrrrs like a record whenever I plug it in!
A few months ago however, on my birthday, my amazing wife (also my single audience member!) bought me a card. It has that brilliant Mark Twain Quote:
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
and inside, she simply told me to start writing. My gift was a copy of Julia Cameron's “The Artist’s Way”, I knew there was a reason I married this woman!
We were going through a major relocation at the time, so I had several months of good excuses primed and ready to use in order to put it off! Now there expired, so here I am.
What I’ll say upfront, my grammar and spelling are below par, my ideas are horrid and my writing makes you feel like someone nearby is scraping long nails up a blackboard. But what I lack in skill and finesse, I more than make up with passion and willingness to improve.
Guess I am here to find a group of others like me, those who love fantasy and mystery and science fiction, those eclectic nerds, who love to write it.
In advance, thank you for welcoming me to your forum. I have been watching over it for months now and can’t tell you how anxious, yet excited I am to be here. It feels like I am on a first date!
I have been writing for myself for as long as I can remember. I love it, to create a world and escape into something so fully. To sit at the end of a long day and scroll past thousands of words that’s have emanated from the tips of my very fingers, it’s amazing. That and I like my written friends a lot more then my real ones! But I am one of those, as I am sure all have once been, who suffer from the idea that to take it any further is just an ill-considered dream. Best leave that desire in its scabbard, where the pointy end can’t get anyone hurt.
So my stories sit and gather virtual dust once I am done with them, slowly chocking up a hard drive that’s now so old, it whirrrrrs like a record whenever I plug it in!
A few months ago however, on my birthday, my amazing wife (also my single audience member!) bought me a card. It has that brilliant Mark Twain Quote:
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
and inside, she simply told me to start writing. My gift was a copy of Julia Cameron's “The Artist’s Way”, I knew there was a reason I married this woman!
We were going through a major relocation at the time, so I had several months of good excuses primed and ready to use in order to put it off! Now there expired, so here I am.
What I’ll say upfront, my grammar and spelling are below par, my ideas are horrid and my writing makes you feel like someone nearby is scraping long nails up a blackboard. But what I lack in skill and finesse, I more than make up with passion and willingness to improve.
Guess I am here to find a group of others like me, those who love fantasy and mystery and science fiction, those eclectic nerds, who love to write it.
In advance, thank you for welcoming me to your forum. I have been watching over it for months now and can’t tell you how anxious, yet excited I am to be here. It feels like I am on a first date!
Auror
Myth Weaver
