WHO are YOU?

Anyone who looks on my website will get all the info but just a quick resume:

I'm female and supposed to be officially retired - therefore I rank among the "oh, you can forget about them - they've had their day" - but I think that's the little green monster lifting its head as I now have miles of time to do everything I want. For those who think I'm now dead read no further (byeeeeee).

However, now I have time to write. I am on my fourth book in a series of five - though I really do wish I could get an agent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even though, the first 3 are published. However, like Hoopy, I write as I enjoy it and my small fan base also enjoy it and range from age 12 to 92! Amazing!

I have a gorgeous border terrier who is now 2 years old (yep Chrispy and Ace - she's 2 - tempus fugit eh) and you can see her as my avatar - ahhh. She keeps me fit as we do lots of walking and running (well, she does the running) together.

I do a fair amount of reading - my favourite author is Wilbur Smith and I've read all his stuff. I've read all Jane Austen and Darles Chickens (as my son calls him) (apart from a couple of his works), to name but a few.

I have a large family and loads of friends, mainly at church, and have a great time with all of them, especially when we holiday - we've been to nearly all the Med countries, Wales, Scotland, Israel, Egypt, Singapore, Sydney, NZ and Canada to name some of them so, as you have guessed, I also love to travel.
 
My name is John, and I'm a 38 year old living in Ayrshire, Scotland.

In the real world I work for BT, and have done so for 11 years. Prior to which I was a Security Manager in a Nightclub.

Away from my wife (Married for 9 years), writing and my work my main interests and hobbies revolve around Martial Arts. I've been studying Karate for 31 years and I'm a 4th Dan studying Okinawan Karate. My base system was Shito-ryu but over the years I've researched the systems which influenced the development of Shito-ryu such as; Shorin-ryu, Goju-ryu, and Ryuei-ryu. I'm also a Judo 1st Dan, although I've not stepped onto a Judo Tatemi for about 3 years. I've written tournament reports and commentaries for a few UK Martial Art publications such as TRADITIONAL KARATE, COMBAT, FIGHTERS, and MARTIAL ARTS ILLUSTRATED.

I'm also a bit of a gym junkie lifting stupidly heavy weights. (I'm 6'1 and weigh 19 stone or 240 lbs)

My other me-time thing is theme parks.

So, Me in a nutshell.
 
Okay so a man, I am the fourth child of parents who were farmers of a small piece of land in Gloucestershire and was precocious enough to try to write a novel at 14 which was a piece of proverbial….

At 19 I hitch-hiked around Europe which was one of the most amazing experiences of my life.

Despite loving writing and reading especially Dickens, Dostoyevsky and Balzac I was waylaid by the acting bug and spent 20 years running and touring with a commedia dell'arte company. Great fun and would not have missed it for the world but touring for 10 months of the year takes it toll.
Closed it down last year partly because was writing again and partly age.
Written one book and about to start the all serious big edit (ie cut and cut and cut for me.)

As with all actors keep the wolf from the door with the odd bit of directing, teaching, performing, acting and anything that brings in the wonga.

At 44 part of me feels that my life has led me to this point where I feel I want to write and the feeling of actually finishing my first novel was incredible, but it is much lonelier than acting and that makes it very hard.

I am single, gay with two cats and someone who looks at the world as an opportunity. Very much a glass half full type, which is great 'cos I enjoy a drink.
 
dustinzgirl said:
I write Web article content and have had the opportunity to be a co editor on some textbooks nothing fancy or great but hey, it pays the bills. I wrote a few books but they pretty much sucked, so I'm still working on them because I'm tenacious like that. I did really boring corporate research market crap for a while and before that I worked at Dell for a very long and sad scary time. It was Hell. Really.
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Dustinzgirl, I also write web article content, web page content, E-Books etc.

I used to work for a retail company, but they were shocking (I've posted a few of the pathetic debacles I've had with that company, yargh!), and I just got fired a couple of weeks ago for no reason and with no notice. (Also, they are refusing to pay me for the last 3 weeks of work that I did, or pay out my 2 years worth of annual leave, AND they have been underpaying my superannuation. Crazy stuff!) I have just accepted another, much more corporate job, but I am always doing business writing on the side. I'm lucky I had that to back me up, or else I would have been in a bit of trouble when I lost my last job!

I try to write as much as possible, but I don't do all that much these days. I am working on a short story idea that I've had, but it is still very rough. Most of my time these days is taken up by work, business writing and study. I am doing a degree in English Literature and Composition, which is unbelievable fun for a nerd like me! It does take up all my reading and writing time though, I only read Uni books these days! And my writing tends to be all essays (which I am meant to be doing right now, but I am procrastinating!).

Other interests include artsy things like going to museums, art galleries, the opera etc. I am also a dance student, I study Street Latin - ie Salsa, Street Cha, Merengue, Argentine Tango etc. It is a lot of hard work, but a lot of fun too. Other than that, I just hang out, go out to dinner, watch DVDs etc. I live alone and spend a lot of time alone / online, so I may or may not be just a little bit weird!
 
I'm a twenty-six year old girl. I'd tell you my name, but when I get published you will all know it. :D I have two books started, one has about 20,000 words the other is just started. I read sci-fi fantasy with some action novels thrown in.

I only write thirty minutes to a hour at night. It's the only time I have to do so, just to busy during the day. I work and home, and crochet during the day. Stuffed animals mostly, but blankets and clothing items also.

I have one dog, and two horses, and still live at home (forever hopefully, people can be scary out there) in a little town in Texas. Home of the largest rattlesnake round-up, just to give you a hint. The city to the east of us usually allows us to catch their rattlers, but didn't do it this year. Now they have a problem with them.
That's enough about me, I think.
 
HoopyFrood said:
I couldn't help thinking as I read through this, that we sound like a Writers Anonymous group.
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ahem. i'm Chopper, and i've been a writer for donkey's years.
although i fell off the wagon a few years back due to a different addiction: computer games. couldn't get enough of Pro Evo or The Sims. with them firmly boxed away, the notepads are back out....

i went to Sheffield Polytechnic...and graduated from Sheffield Hallam University. the best thing to come out of those three years of iniquity and fuggy memories was Mrs Chopper. no kids, but the neice and nephew are royally spoilt. i'm mad enough to have directed a Pratchett play (the first ever done in Sheffield, fact fans - trend-setter!) and my claim to fame is that i was in a play with Jane Horrocks and Niamh Cusack, back in '85.

i specialise in unfinished epics - there's one detailed on my website, while another is simmering gently away at approx 41000 words - but last year i joined a new Writers Group and that's encouraged me to start writing short stuff too. like chrispy, i'm monitoring and prodding the Collaborative thread, and there's a 10k-plus story baked to near perfection.

the most exciting part of all this is the Writers' Groop, which has pulled together enough material for a self-published anthology. we hope to have that ready on lulu by Christmas (if i ever finish editing it....

owt else? oh yes - up the Wolves!
 
Name: Aes
Age: Over 9000 years
Sign: Stop (Hammertime!)
IQ: You must succeed at division by zero to determine this.
Race: Half demon, half vampire, half dragon, half demigod, half angel, half machine
Special Power: I can charge and fire my laser.

As the above suggests, I'm rarely serious, and I especially love weaving in humor that flies by most people without them even knowing. What's the point in that? Well, it feels that much more rewarding when you finally happen across someone who does get it.

I'm a 31 year old student (aka no-job-having bum) in Washington state, going for an associate's degree in computer programming. Many of you may not know who I am--that's because I tend to come and go to this place in phases; I guess you could say I'm drawn here when I want to try and stimulate my (dying?) creative spark. Despite my age, I refuse to let the kid in me die, because that's exactly what The Man wants; another soulless golem working in the slave pits to put money in his pocket for the rest of its tortured existence.

My hobbies include:

Writing. Or rather, attempting to write, because I'm 1) lazy and 2) never satisfied with an idea for long, be it character design, plot design, or any mix of the two. For the longest time, I had a real problem where I'd come up with what I thought was a great idea for a character or two, and an accompanying plot, but then everything would fall apart. Usually, it was because I'd come up with another character/plot that seemed more interesting to me, so I'd put the previous one on hold indefinitely. I recently found a solution, and for those of you with a similar problem, you can solve it by just merging them all together into the same world and general storyline. The plot itself doesn't matter much, as I've realized it's the characters that really make the story worthwhile or not. Right now, you could say I'm working on building the world for my giant mass of characters to play in.

Music. Okay, this is more something I'm trying to get myself to learn more than anything else. I understand the basics, but getting ideas from my head into a playable format is where I get stuck. I also crawl all over the internet (myspace is actually pretty useful for this) to try and find music that appeals to me, but it seems to get harder and harder by the day.

Gaming: Yes, I'm a gaming nerd. I love video games of all types: console, computer, online, etc. My top series include final fantasy, touhou project (my avatar is from this), and...world of warcraft. Yes, I'm wow addict, and I suspect a lot of time that could be spent pursuing creative goals gets funneled into the warcraft timesink instead.

There you have it, more than you probably cared to know about [Random Person]. :D

Edit: As for my presence in this place, I usually only look at the writer forums, gaming forums, and sometimes the music forum even though actually connecting with someone who enjoys the same type of music as me is pretty much not going to happen.
 
I am Lucy, The first Duchess of Prozac. I am 29 and I live in a crummy town in Shropshire with my girlfriend and five cats.

I don't have a job as people are loathe to employ me for some reason, although I have had to look after my disabled partner for the past six years so it's not been much a worry for a while.

I have written for as long as a I can remember, although my writing wasn't as good as it is now. So far, I've had two short stories published, I have a handful of others I'm polishing and I have two novels I have been writing for the past couple of years.

I am what I consider to be Pagan, although I still celebrate the 'Christian' festivals, but only because I know they're just pagan festivals in disguise.

I was kicked out of school at the age of 15 due to my beliefs and my writing, so I lost out on any chance of going to university and instead went to Telford College of Arts and Technology where I spent 9 months faffing about with computers before leaving with a qualification worth nothing.

I have spent time homeless, which I would not recommend to anyone.

I have many interests, although the only ones I consider hobbies are computer games and movies. I try to read but I rarely get the oppurtunity to do so these days.I Love music, too and spend most of my day listening to it. I listen to all kinds of stuff, right now I'm listening to Amanda Palmer, which has been in my cd player since September, although I listen to lots of rock and metal.

And there you have it. That's me in a nutshell.
 
Aes
Race: Half demon, half vampire, half dragon, half demigod, half angel, half machine
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You really have mastered that divide by zero business haven't you. Along with the old quart in a pint pot.



Despite my age, I refuse to let the kid in me die, because that's exactly what The Man wants; another soulless golem working in the slave pits to put money in his pocket for the rest of its tortured existence.
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Ah a kindred spirit. Worry not, for the time cometh shortly.
 
Hello. I am brand spanking new - just discovered this site about 20 minutes ago.
I write fantasy and I'm in the process of finishing a book I actually began 30 years ago, hoping to get it into shape by early 2010 to pitch to agents. I have about 20,000 more words to go and I just can't tell you how totally great and strange it is to have this book almost wrapped up.

Cheers!
 
Hello.

I am Spectrum. My real name is Claus. I am a 24 year old dude from Denmark.

I study computer science at DIKU in Copenhagen, when I am about to begin my master's thesis and expect to graduate next summer.

My fantasy interests are the darker, more epic side of fantasy. Favourite works include Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen, George Martin's Song of Ice and Fire, Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné and Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time. Favourite authors and works in other genres include H.P. Lovecraft and Frank Herbert's Dune.

I am a big fan of metal music. Favourite artists include Blind Guardian, Bal-Sagoth, Nile, Emperor, Virgin Steele, Limbonic Art and Iced Earth. Metal lyrics also serve as a significant influence on my writing.

I am writing a series of dark, epic fantasy with elements of Cthulhu horror. The series is tentatively entitled Sentinels of Mith. I am about halfway done with the first book, Twilight Angel, Remember (about 100K words written).

On the forum I mostly frequent this section, but I occasionally post elsewhere.
 
I'm 21, living in the US, in the Corn state. If you know what state that is, your weird. I was from the Mitten. If you know what state that is I LOVE YOU. Hello my name is Shadowbox, and I am addicted to witting, and this forum if you haven't all noticed. When I am not writing, I'm making miniatures. Even made one of me, her name is lily, she's eight months old. Yep, I'm a lady. If you didn't already know. Betcha did.

I like web comics, and and I frequent a well known LOLcat website and laugh my bottom off. I use to be smart, then I graduated, and I have no idea where I went. If you have checked my stuff, you know I am grammatically disinclined. I like cake. More then an average person should. Ain't no cake I don't like.

Other then real-live peoples in my life the only things I like more then cake is reading.


i sure do likes me some books.
 
shadowbox said:
I'm 21, living in the US, in the Corn state. If you know what state that is, your weird. I was from the Mitten. If you know what state that is I LOVE YOU.
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Okay, so some of us here are weird (but you can't mean me, as I thought that the Corn State was Illinois, not Indiana - but who's here knows that :rolleyes::eek:).


As for knowing the name of the state that contains, rather obviously, the University of Michigan, I think the disparity in our ages should cause you to cool your Arbor ... er ... ardour somewhat. ;):)
 
TheEndIsNigh said:
You really have mastered that divide by zero business haven't you. Along with the old quart in a pint pot.
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I couldn't resist the urge to roll just about every terrible background cliche into one gigantic monstrosity. I suppose I should say that "I'm dark and brooding due to a tragic past" to complete it all. ;)

shadowbox said:
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"Yes, you can has cheezburgr," says teh Ceiling Cat, u no srsly!!

It's good to know I'm not the only person who gets kicks from things that make ordinary people want to /facepalm.
 
I hate to argue with people who live in a place about that place, but these are only two out of many sites that name Illinois as the Corn State (and Iowa, for what it's worth, as the Tall Corn State):

Indiana is, variously, the Hospitality State, the Hoosier State and the "Cross Roads of America". (It is also a corn state, but that's something different.)
 
During the day I am a 34-yr-old parts-and-supplies manager for the City of Spokane Fleet Services Dept. in Washington, USA.

When I'm not doing that (which is as frequently as I can manage it) I am variously:

-An amatuer stage actor in TAC (currently in "Christmas Every Day", will be auditioning for "Robin Hood").

-A sail boat captain (I build and race Puddleduck Racer dingys, took 2nd place in our national championship this year). Next year I plan on taking a PDR dingy on both the TX200 and the Columbia 150 (google is your friend if you want details on any of these).

-An avid Gamer (not as avid as I was during Highschool, but that's okay. If you're ever on the 'Shadowsong' server in WoW look for a dwarven warrior by the name of 'Hamner').

-An avid RPGer (my highschool gaming group just came back together recently to start a 'Ravenloft' campaign).

-Divorced Father with two wonderful children and a workable, if not ameable relationship with the ex-spouse.

-A cartoon artist (never published)

-An independant computer game programmer (never finished anything, look for stuff by Unstable Orbit on Youtube.com if you're all that curious).

-A woodworker (I really should get around to building that computer desk for my Mum).

-A gavel (Banging my head on my desk as my fellow countryman finds new ways of embarrassing us on the international stage.)

-and of course, an amatuer writer. I found this site after writing a short-story that was originally intended as flavor-text in a boardgame I was working on and just felt the need to publish it somewhere, anywhere. So, here I am. Currently working on the steampunk novel 'Into Harm's Way' (5k words and counting).
 
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