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Author Craft / Re: Author In Progress
« on: January 10, 2009, 10:58:47 PM »
Hey,
I must say that I am delighted I found this site. I just picked up three much needed books for some lazy reading at the weekend yesterday and I have read two of the codex alera already and am on the third, absolutely and totally hooked! I decided, I must check this guy out, Jim Butcher, and looked him up and saw that not only is he a talented writer but he actually cares for the (hopefully) up and comers as well!! A rare find!
I am a writer before I am anything and I do everything with the aim of giving myself the time and the space to write. I worked on a ship,(week on/week off) I lived on the dole (everyday off) and now I am in my fourth year of teacher training (just so I can get the three months off every summer to write!) I have finished one book which I have never shown anyone in entirety and is sitting on an old laptop that will no longer turn on! I write short stories and poetry and enter every competition I hear of - and won a few too! (Yes, I know, I am also annoyingly enthusiastic) But on the bright side, knowing that this site is in existence has put a smile on my face in the middle of teaching practice and may I say - that in itself is a feat of epic proportions.
Anyway, I really couldn't contain myself, so good luck to you all, and hopefully we can spur each other on to grand heights in the future!
xxxxxx
I must say that I am delighted I found this site. I just picked up three much needed books for some lazy reading at the weekend yesterday and I have read two of the codex alera already and am on the third, absolutely and totally hooked! I decided, I must check this guy out, Jim Butcher, and looked him up and saw that not only is he a talented writer but he actually cares for the (hopefully) up and comers as well!! A rare find!
I am a writer before I am anything and I do everything with the aim of giving myself the time and the space to write. I worked on a ship,(week on/week off) I lived on the dole (everyday off) and now I am in my fourth year of teacher training (just so I can get the three months off every summer to write!) I have finished one book which I have never shown anyone in entirety and is sitting on an old laptop that will no longer turn on! I write short stories and poetry and enter every competition I hear of - and won a few too! (Yes, I know, I am also annoyingly enthusiastic) But on the bright side, knowing that this site is in existence has put a smile on my face in the middle of teaching practice and may I say - that in itself is a feat of epic proportions.
Anyway, I really couldn't contain myself, so good luck to you all, and hopefully we can spur each other on to grand heights in the future!
xxxxxx