Hello,
I found this site when I was searching for proper ways to write a phone dialogue. I'm glad to be here. I belong to a lot of different boards (like for motorcycles, for example, or gorey stuff) but never a writers' board. But I'm on a listserv of writers, which I don't usually read much because it's mostly editors on there trading intel about upcoming RFP's. But I digress.
I'll be 41 in September. To call me a failed writer would be dumb since I never finished writing anything. Yesterday I started writing something, it's fiction. I write non-fiction daily as part of my regular activities. Hopefully I will finish this one. I've lowered my objectives for now, trying to go for the short essay.
So I will be on here daily, I think it will be good to keep my motivation levels. I will be commenting and giving feedback on whatever requires it and I feel like I can make a contribution to the discussion. As a European I tend to be frank but very precise; feel free to let me know if I was too frank.
I sound calm but I'm actually super excited to be here. I think there are a lot of these kinds of writers boards out there but this one looks like a good one.
Personal anecdote: my mother is a failed writer, albeit not from lack of trying. She wrote about 75 novels and works of non-fiction and only one got published (and it's a tiny one). She wrote both in English and in French, and attempted (still does, to this day) to get published both in the US and in France, to no avail.
One day, she goes to see a clairvoyant and asks her, "will I ever be a successful writer?" The clairvoyant thinks awhile and looks up at her, saying, "No, you will not. But you have a son; he will be the successful writer."
So there's that.
It's good to be here.
Rogan
I found this site when I was searching for proper ways to write a phone dialogue. I'm glad to be here. I belong to a lot of different boards (like for motorcycles, for example, or gorey stuff) but never a writers' board. But I'm on a listserv of writers, which I don't usually read much because it's mostly editors on there trading intel about upcoming RFP's. But I digress.
I'll be 41 in September. To call me a failed writer would be dumb since I never finished writing anything. Yesterday I started writing something, it's fiction. I write non-fiction daily as part of my regular activities. Hopefully I will finish this one. I've lowered my objectives for now, trying to go for the short essay.
So I will be on here daily, I think it will be good to keep my motivation levels. I will be commenting and giving feedback on whatever requires it and I feel like I can make a contribution to the discussion. As a European I tend to be frank but very precise; feel free to let me know if I was too frank.
I sound calm but I'm actually super excited to be here. I think there are a lot of these kinds of writers boards out there but this one looks like a good one.
Personal anecdote: my mother is a failed writer, albeit not from lack of trying. She wrote about 75 novels and works of non-fiction and only one got published (and it's a tiny one). She wrote both in English and in French, and attempted (still does, to this day) to get published both in the US and in France, to no avail.
One day, she goes to see a clairvoyant and asks her, "will I ever be a successful writer?" The clairvoyant thinks awhile and looks up at her, saying, "No, you will not. But you have a son; he will be the successful writer."
So there's that.
It's good to be here.
Rogan
