Greetings fellow writers. I'm just me, a random dude from the icy cold wastes of Norway looking for a place to hang out and feel at home. I love writing, but to shamelessly share a bit of personal information you don't care about, I had been working with a writing partner the last year and a half, only to have it end with a disaster. Let's just say she's not exactly on top of my friends list anymore. So right now I'm in the early stages of recovery and trying to get motivated enough to put together a new book or two, and maybe make a few friends in the process. And to be brutally honest, I have had far too many bad experiences with various forums, especially writing forums for some reason. I can only hope this one will be better, but I guess time will tell. I did make a friend on another forum about a year ago, and we are still friends. I guess it's possible to not screw things up too badly sometimes. But enough about me, on with the show!
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Hello, neighbor. Working with creative stuff can often be like rollercoaster and I feel ya with the hardships around it. What do you write about?
Thanks, everyone. @Cog: Don't worry, the first thing I did when I signed up was reading about the workshop. Honest! @Sang Hee: What I write about? Hard to say. Sci-fi, fantasy, horror, thrillers, drama, you name it. The currnent story is a sci-fi where we follow a guy from he's a young boy until he's a grown man, then go back to the start when he's a young girl and follow her until she's an old woman. And that's the sane part.
Heh, I write a sci-fi that follows a girl as she's growing up. All the way from being four years old to being a grown-up. And man, it's not an easy thing at all. Since this stuff requires a lot of research I've just decided to fill in the gaps of knowledge with imagination.
Put it this way: My dream novel is about Life and Death. Literally. They are two cosmic beings or some sort (think Neil Gaiman-style). For some reason Life was banised to our planet when it was still very young and have been stuck here ever since. But Life can't exist without Death, so Death was banished here as well. The story starts pre-dinosaurs and ends in the near distant future and covers pretty much everything. Literally.
