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FishStampede:
My name is Robert. I used to write all the time in high school, but only now that I've gotten out of the military I've started writing again for real. I'm currently studying creative writing at UNCA, and would like to get my works published.
I mainly write fantasy, of the extremely high fantasy variety. My work started out actually as fanfiction, but it's evolved beyond that. In the class I'm currently taking we're supposed to try to get a short story published by the end of the semester. They're not expecting us to succeed, just to try. I just finished my short story, and so now I'm trying to edit and improve on what I have. If anyone is interested in doing a serious critique of it, let me know.
JJoelW:
I've been trying to be a writer since I was 14 and I may be getting close. Ish. (Whatever that means.)
I'm currently writing an urban fantasy novel set in an alternative 1950s setting with airships and twice the neon. Aside from that, I write too many short stories and have, until recently, posted them on Facebook as throwaways, or practice. I say "until recently," because I now have a blog to put them.
I'm also working on two side-by-side serials to submit to Juke Pop Serials in hopes of building something like an audience.
Aside from these things, I am incredibly boring. ;D
Torvaldr:
I have had some poems published, and I have put out a cd of my Viking Home Companion stories. You can actually buy and download my stories like iTunes. But unless Mickey tells me it is okay I wont post the link here. Currently I am writing a book that not only has all those performance stories in it, it has information about the historical information I hide in the stories, and also includes the story behind the story. That book is mostly done, but I don't have it up anywhere that I can share. I have a fantasy novel in the works that deals with angels, and I have been working on a transposition of the Saga of Beowulf into skaldic verse. That last one is a self torture project that may never get done. But lately I have been getting more work done on the angels book. Most of my poetry is written in an ancient form of Viking poetry called drottkveat though I write it in English. Here is a link to a free sample of my very first story. http://skaldic.com/skaldic-sample.mp3
Mote:
Hey- I'm Michael. Writer-hobbyist. No efforts made yet to get anything published, but who knows?
I don't know how long or biographical this is supposed to be, but... when I was a little kid, I was the little kid that all the other kids got annoyed at, because when we played He-Man/GI Joe/Go-Bots/Transformers, (sometimes all at the same time,) I insisted that it wasn't enough for the good guys to fight the bad guys- there had to be a reason. I would construct long, elaborate plots with ample twists and turns, and occasionally a few side-adventures. When I was 12 or so, I had a teacher that made us all write a 1 page story. I couldn't fit my little fantasy on one page, so I filled up the back, (which was still, I figured, technically one page,) with the letters getting tinier and tinier as I reached the end of the page and the conclusion. She liked it a lot, but I didn't think much of it until waaaay later, when someone recognized my name from the story and told me that same teacher was -still- using my story as an 'example,' years and years after I wrote it. Which was kind of flattering, but also a little weird. It was enough flattery, I guess, to make me write more, and in writing more, I realized that I actually enjoyed the process.
I've been writing ever since.
angrypecos:
Hi!
I have written several short stories (which I promptly lost, or as I say "I hid them for future creative inspiration") I enjoy writing, though it takes a long time to write or type ((not that I write or type slow but I have to get the right feeling from it) which means I write once and revise twenty or fifty times). I am still learning of course they say that you never stop learning. Hopefully I will have more time to write during the summer after I finish my senior year of high school. :P Then college will start... ::)
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