Hi all! New member here obviously. I'm 36 years old and have been writing nearly my whole life, I think my first story was at age 11 about why a hot dog dog is called a hot dog dog haha. My teacher loved it and I've been hooked on writing ever since. I write mostly fantasy and am currently in the process of having my book edited to hopefully be published. It's a series and hope that when I start the next one I can use this site for various things, mostly punctuation and comma placement, things like that. It's been a very long time since I've been in school and in having this book edited, I realize I've forgotten a thing or two. Anyway, look forward to searching the site and getting to know people.
Welcome to Writing Forums, Steph4136! I hope you find what you're looking for here, whatever your interests in writing. This forum aims to provide the best workshopping resources on the internet, and to that end we have a few rules which you should familiarise yourself with before you get stuck in. The main section of the site is the Writing Workshop, where members can post their writing in order to receive critique of their work. However, before we allow members to post their work, they must have met some basic requirments. Firstly, you must have been a member for fourteen days, and have made twenty posts on the forum overall (please note, posts in Word Games do not count towards this). This is so that members, when they post their work, have familiarised themselves with the forums and contributed to them (as well as hopefully learned something for themselves). Secondly, members must provide two constructive reviews of other people's work for each piece of their own that they wish to post. This is because we believe that the focus of workshopping should be equally upon giving reviews as receiving them, as they allow a writer to practice and improve their editing skills, which they can then apply to their own writing. Beyond the Writing Workshop, you will find that we have extensive forums for discussion of aspects of writing, as well as a community area for general discussion. We also run periodic short story and poetry contests, which are good for challenging yourself and expanding your skills. If you have any questions or problems, then the moderators (myself, Cogito, Lemex and Dante Dases) should be your first port of call. Any technical problems with the site itself should be directed to Daniel, the site administrator and owner. I would recommend you have a look over the rules so that you know what to expect, and what is expected. But aside from that, I hope you enjoy your time here. Banzai
Haha thanks. I'm actually a Yankee and moved to Canada after marrying. Been here long enough where I've adapted to the metric system and Don Cherry's jackets though.
I really wish I could find that story. I have a big box full of writing that I've saved, from junior high/high school until I finally got a computer and wrote that way. I also wrote a series called The Cat Team, which was basically my cats getting into adventures and solving mysteries (wrote this around age 12). I've moved so many times that things get lost over the years.
I am into fantasy, both reading and writing. The book that I'm in the editing process is written from the perspective of a ghost, taking place mostly in the afterlife.
Welcome to the Forums from The guy in sunny California lol I'm half your age so I would expect you to have twice the experience. I hope I can glean a thing or two from you
My biggest advice to anyone who wants to be a writer is to just write. Even if it's utter crap, who cares? It's experience and that's all that counts. Even when I'm not working on my book, I'll be writing silly fan-fic or whatever, I call it 'working out my writing muscles'. Like Huge Jackman was born all ripped and Wolvernine-like, he has to continually work out, right? Same thing with writing.
