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Hello all! I've been lurking around these parts on and off for years, so it feels good/weird to finally be participating. This site's awesome; just reading through the forums these past years has helped me immensely in improving my style, enough so that I don't feel like an utter idiot actually de-lurking and dipping my toes in the water. (I'm stupidly shy, so it takes a looong time for me to build my confidence up.) Now that I'm here, though, I can't wait to start participating... it's always great to talk to other writers!
So... about me... (gulp)
I've been writing semi-seriously since high school, but it's only been in the past two years that I've gained enough discipline to finish and edit an entire novel... well, that is, a novel that I actually like and could envision being published. That book's titled Heaven Beside You. It's literary fiction-- genre-wise, it best fits under the umbrella of gothic romance I think, but I'm not sure if that's how I should characterize it once it's ready to be subbed. Still have got a while to make up my mind on that, because it's still going to have to go through at least one more round of revisions before I start seriously thinking about finding an agent. I've been working on it so closely for so long I can't tell anymore what's good from what's crap.
I've decided to take a break on the first manuscript and try something different in the meantime, so I'm currently enjoying the early phases of writing my first draft of The Sixth Station, which is shaping up to be breezy, informal, and conversational in tone-- the complete opposite of Heaven, which is full of Big Themes and Huge Emotions. Let me tell you, that stuff gets pretty darn exhausting after two years. It's a relief to write something where the words can just fly from my fingertips! Plus it's just fun flexing my muscles as a stylist and trying something I haven't done before.
I guess the most interesting thing about the whole venture is discovering more about what makes me me as an author. Like, what the two projects have in common despite bearing very few surface similarities. Quite a lot, as it turns out! So, yeah, it's been kind of exciting to learn that about myself...
Meh, anyway, that's enough about me.
I'm looking forward to seeing you all around the boards! Cheers~
So... about me... (gulp)
I've been writing semi-seriously since high school, but it's only been in the past two years that I've gained enough discipline to finish and edit an entire novel... well, that is, a novel that I actually like and could envision being published. That book's titled Heaven Beside You. It's literary fiction-- genre-wise, it best fits under the umbrella of gothic romance I think, but I'm not sure if that's how I should characterize it once it's ready to be subbed. Still have got a while to make up my mind on that, because it's still going to have to go through at least one more round of revisions before I start seriously thinking about finding an agent. I've been working on it so closely for so long I can't tell anymore what's good from what's crap.
I've decided to take a break on the first manuscript and try something different in the meantime, so I'm currently enjoying the early phases of writing my first draft of The Sixth Station, which is shaping up to be breezy, informal, and conversational in tone-- the complete opposite of Heaven, which is full of Big Themes and Huge Emotions. Let me tell you, that stuff gets pretty darn exhausting after two years. It's a relief to write something where the words can just fly from my fingertips! Plus it's just fun flexing my muscles as a stylist and trying something I haven't done before.
I guess the most interesting thing about the whole venture is discovering more about what makes me me as an author. Like, what the two projects have in common despite bearing very few surface similarities. Quite a lot, as it turns out! So, yeah, it's been kind of exciting to learn that about myself...
Meh, anyway, that's enough about me.
I'm looking forward to seeing you all around the boards! Cheers~
...probably doesn't count. On the other hand the MC experiences vivid fever dreams, True Love[SUP]TM[/SUP], and being kinda/sorta buried alive... so, yay!