Hi, nice to meet you all. I'm a history grad student and have been writing fiction (short stories, mainly historical fiction or alternative historical fiction) for some time now. I haven't done much lately, so joined to hopefully get back to doing it. I also write nonfiction, both for school and for myself. I've just moved to California from France, where I lived for three years after undergrad. Beyond writing, I love cooking, world music, and travel. Looking forward to getting to know people here
Hi and welcome to the site This site has certainly inspired me to keep on with my writing; I'm sure you'll find it to be a useful resource. Your writing sounds interesting, hope to read some of it in the future!
Welcome to Writing Forums, principessar16! 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 requirements. 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
I like to turn my hand to a bit of everything, really. At the moment I seem to be concentrating on post-apocalyptic/sci fi themes, but in the future I want to write a historical-fiction book set in the Crusades (have yet to decide which crusade exactly) as well as publishing some academic papers. I just love writing whether it's fiction or academic
Thanks, Banzai! RHK, that sounds really interesting Mine is mostly set in the 19th or 20th centuries -- some earlier, but not much. I'm sort-of drifting to more straight-historical fiction but I like to make up countries and such I haven't written any fiction since I wrote my masters' thesis last year, so I guess this is an attempt to not let academic writing totally supplant the other
