A "How ya goin'?" from Van Dieman's Land

Greetings.

I am an American born, California-bred chick who has been living in Australia (Tasmania) since 2010. I happened to find this group by chance when looking up a question for a bit of writing, and thought it might be fun to join.

Most of my writing consists of fan-fiction... which some will no doubt think is a bit of a cop out, but I enjoy it. I have a few of my own little pieces, very short, and am also currently working on a few other ideas.

I am a flaky writer at best (as far as writing things down, anyway), but I love it and have been creating stories since I could string words together into coherent sentences.

I enjoy fantasy/sci-fi the most, but have taken an interest in post-apoc stuff and educational lit recently too. I have many hobbies and activities that influence my writing, and I'm always looking for experiences to write about.

Pleased to meet you.

-Eup

It's a lovely, wild place to be, for sure. (Tasmania, that is... although this forum may be so as well, lol)

sb118 James said:

Hi and welcome! I'm pleased to meet you.

I have only just joined this community myself and was taking a look to see who else is new around here. I'm actually glad to see that you're into fan fiction as I am into that too, and role playing.

I am also primarily interested in fantasy/sci-fi and a bit of horror.

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Ah yes! I've done a fair bit of role playing myself. From about 2003 to about oh... what 2007? 2008? Then I suffered a massive creativity crash 'n' burn after three very hard years of employment (two jobs, six days a week... I only knew what day of the week it was because I only had one day off and I was always desperate for it to arrive!) This not only affected my writing, but also my art (I enjoy drawing), and even cooking became a chore (I am technically a certified baker, but haven't used my skill set since I moved down here).

My favorite part of role playing was the character and world building. I have/had so much fun with that, and my character collection is nearing 200 I think. (Mind you, most haven't seen the light of day in years, so I dunno if I'd be able to play them well anymore, seeing as my personality has shifted over those years as well).

To be honest, most of the things that can kill you have more common sense than humans do, and you hardly ever see them, lol. In four years here, I've seen one Tiger snake. I've seen a few spiders, but I either squash them or see them outside and just leave them alone. I've been bitten once by a jack jumper, and that was because he was biting the paw of my friends dog, and I accidentally brushed the ant onto me when I was trying to figure out what was wrong with the dog. And even that was only about 30 minutes of discomfort.

It's not nearly as bad as folks think.

Most of those pretty exaggerated, lol. There are orb spiders that will take down snakes and birds, sure, but... oh, are you running away? Come back...