Hello all! I've been lurking on and off for a couple of months now after a writing blog I enjoy recommended these forums as a great place to grow your craft as a writer.
I write a little bit of a lot of things, but somehow I always seem to make my way back to fantasy. I'm most partial to urban fantasy, but high fantasy and magical realism are also favorites. Other genres I dabble in include YA, humor, and sci-fi.
I recently graduated with a degree in English and promptly entered into an unrelated business field where I find myself unlearing a lot of what I thought I knew.
The largest of these "un-lessons" is what it means to be a writer when nobody is grading your final project, a (sometimes painful) truth I am still coming to terms with in my writing life.
More importantly, it has encouraged me to confront how undeveloped my voice, style, and handle on craft are, when turned to applications other than essays. I also went a little off the rails after school ended and no one could "make me" read, write, or talk about books, so I am somewhat drunkenly stumbling back home right now to the world of reading and writing.
This seems like a good place to pick back up.
Sorry about the autobiography. My love of rambling is exceeded only by how much I like talking about myself.
I write a little bit of a lot of things, but somehow I always seem to make my way back to fantasy. I'm most partial to urban fantasy, but high fantasy and magical realism are also favorites. Other genres I dabble in include YA, humor, and sci-fi.
I recently graduated with a degree in English and promptly entered into an unrelated business field where I find myself unlearing a lot of what I thought I knew.
The largest of these "un-lessons" is what it means to be a writer when nobody is grading your final project, a (sometimes painful) truth I am still coming to terms with in my writing life.
More importantly, it has encouraged me to confront how undeveloped my voice, style, and handle on craft are, when turned to applications other than essays. I also went a little off the rails after school ended and no one could "make me" read, write, or talk about books, so I am somewhat drunkenly stumbling back home right now to the world of reading and writing.
This seems like a good place to pick back up.
Sorry about the autobiography. My love of rambling is exceeded only by how much I like talking about myself.
to where writers gather. I think I may have learned more here than ever before. 
