Hi! Well, I'm here because I'm new to the site... I've lived in Venezuela all my life, I've been writing since I was little but being rejected by two universities upon graduating high school led me to put writing aside and pursuit a career in illustration. After graduating there, I got finally accepted to study Social Communication... and then it wasn't good at all and it felt like a waste of time and money. I dropped out about 8 months ago. I'm... still not exactly sure where I'm going in my life, which I don't think can be considered acceptable because I'm 24 and I should have an idea already, but since I quit college I feel like I'm doing a lot of much needed inner growth. I may not know exactly what I want to be when I grow up, but I know I want to feel happy with what I've accomplished, and it has to be related to writing and illustration, not necessarily together. Well, this was long ^^ Um... I really love writing but I sometimes find it extremely hard to just get to it, I go around and around an idea, and I have one right now that may be a killer if I do it right, but I need to *work* on it first! I don't believe a lot in raw talent as in passion and determination, which is why I think that I need as much training and feedback as possible, and... this is why I joined I try to write in spanish but sometimes my wires get crossed and I end up writing in english. I'm not sure why that happens. Sometimes I even jump from one to the other in the same text, which at times I find appealing but others I think it's just unforgivable. ...I really can be pretty hard on myself sometimes. Well, I'll stop this really long introduction here, hopefully I can find the help I need and also be of help to others!
Welcome. You remind me of myself. I ended up dropping out of college when I was twenty because I was majoring in something I no longer had any interest in, and I wasn't interested in anything else enough to merit changing majors. I was depressed for a year and had no clue what would become of me. That's when I found writing, so I went back to college for it, and I'm now working on an MFA in Fiction. I never imagined I'd ever persue writing as a career, but life is funny like that. I wish you the best.
Hello and welcome to the forums Do not worry about the age deal; I'm 27 and still pretty aimless even with a college degree under my belt. I do the language crossover pretty often as well but I speak it instead of writing it, haha.
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