WHO are YOU?

[TheEndIsNigh]

Aes

Race: Half demon, half vampire, half dragon, half demigod, half angel, half machine

You really have mastered that divide by zero business haven't you. Along with the old quart in a pint pot.

Despite my age, I refuse to let the kid in me die, because that's exactly what The Man wants; another soulless golem working in the slave pits to put money in his pocket for the rest of its tortured existence.

Ah a kindred spirit. Worry not, for the time cometh shortly.

[Beast]

Hello. I am brand spanking new - just discovered this site about 20 minutes ago.
I write fantasy and I'm in the process of finishing a book I actually began 30 years ago, hoping to get it into shape by early 2010 to pitch to agents. I have about 20,000 more words to go and I just can't tell you how totally great and strange it is to have this book almost wrapped up.

Cheers!

[Spectrum]

Hello.

I am Spectrum. My real name is Claus. I am a 24 year old dude from Denmark.

I study computer science at DIKU in Copenhagen, when I am about to begin my master's thesis and expect to graduate next summer.

My fantasy interests are the darker, more epic side of fantasy. Favourite works include Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen, George Martin's Song of Ice and Fire, Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné and Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time. Favourite authors and works in other genres include H.P. Lovecraft and Frank Herbert's Dune.

I am a big fan of metal music. Favourite artists include Blind Guardian, Bal-Sagoth, Nile, Emperor, Virgin Steele, Limbonic Art and Iced Earth. Metal lyrics also serve as a significant influence on my writing.

I am writing a series of dark, epic fantasy with elements of Cthulhu horror. The series is tentatively entitled Sentinels of Mith. I am about halfway done with the first book, Twilight Angel, Remember (about 100K words written).

On the forum I mostly frequent this section, but I occasionally post elsewhere.

[shadowbox]

I'm 21, living in the US, in the Corn state. If you know what state that is, your weird. I was from the Mitten. If you know what state that is I LOVE YOU. Hello my name is Shadowbox, and I am addicted to witting, and this forum if you haven't all noticed. When I am not writing, I'm making miniatures. Even made one of me, her name is lily, she's eight months old. Yep, I'm a lady. If you didn't already know. Betcha did.

I like web comics, and and I frequent a well known LOLcat website and laugh my bottom off. I use to be smart, then I graduated, and I have no idea where I went. If you have checked my stuff, you know I am grammatically disinclined. I like cake. More then an average person should. Ain't no cake I don't like.

Other then real-live peoples in my life the only things I like more then cake is reading.


i sure do likes me some books.

[Ursa major]

Originally Posted by shadowbox

I'm 21, living in the US, in the Corn state. If you know what state that is, your weird. I was from the Mitten. If you know what state that is I LOVE YOU.

Okay, so some of us here are weird (but you can't mean me, as I thought that the Corn State was Illinois, not Indiana - but who's here knows that ).


As for knowing the name of the state that contains, rather obviously, the University of Michigan, I think the disparity in our ages should cause you to cool your Arbor ... er ... ardour somewhat.

[shadowbox]

Indiana is the corn state.

But dead on on Michigan.


Lived in that mitten for a good 19 years.

[Aes]

Originally Posted by TheEndIsNigh

You really have mastered that divide by zero business haven't you. Along with the old quart in a pint pot.

I couldn't resist the urge to roll just about every terrible background cliche into one gigantic monstrosity. I suppose I should say that "I'm dark and brooding due to a tragic past" to complete it all.

Originally Posted by shadowbox

and I frequent a well known LOLcat website

"Yes, you can has cheezburgr," says teh Ceiling Cat, u no srsly!!

It's good to know I'm not the only person who gets kicks from things that make ordinary people want to /facepalm.

[Ursa major]

I hate to argue with people who live in a place about that place, but these are only two out of many sites that name Illinois as the Corn State (and Iowa, for what it's worth, as the Tall Corn State):

List of U.S. state nicknames - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

American State Nicknames

Indiana is, variously, the Hospitality State, the Hoosier State and the "Cross Roads of America". (It is also a corn state, but that's something different.)

[WafflesToo]

During the day I am a 34-yr-old parts-and-supplies manager for the City of Spokane Fleet Services Dept. in Washington, USA.

When I'm not doing that (which is as frequently as I can manage it) I am variously:

-An amatuer stage actor in TAC (currently in "Christmas Every Day", will be auditioning for "Robin Hood").

-A sail boat captain (I build and race Puddleduck Racer dingys, took 2nd place in our national championship this year). Next year I plan on taking a PDR dingy on both the TX200 and the Columbia 150 (google is your friend if you want details on any of these).

-An avid Gamer (not as avid as I was during Highschool, but that's okay. If you're ever on the 'Shadowsong' server in WoW look for a dwarven warrior by the name of 'Hamner').

-An avid RPGer (my highschool gaming group just came back together recently to start a 'Ravenloft' campaign).

-Divorced Father with two wonderful children and a workable, if not ameable relationship with the ex-spouse.

-A cartoon artist (never published)

-An independant computer game programmer (never finished anything, look for stuff by Unstable Orbit on Youtube.com if you're all that curious).

-A woodworker (I really should get around to building that computer desk for my Mum).

-A gavel (Banging my head on my desk as my fellow countryman finds new ways of embarrassing us on the international stage.)

-and of course, an amatuer writer. I found this site after writing a short-story that was originally intended as flavor-text in a boardgame I was working on and just felt the need to publish it somewhere, anywhere. So, here I am. Currently working on the steampunk novel 'Into Harm's Way' (5k words and counting).

[shadowbox]

Originally Posted by Aes

"Yes, you can has cheezburgr," says teh Ceiling Cat, u no srsly!!

I lol'd so hard.

when I was preggers, I really wanted a cat. Not sure why. I would send pictures to my hubby every day from LOLcat heaven.

love em.

[Stephen Aryan]

Hello,

I'm new here so thought I should say hello. I'm Stephen Aryan, I live in Yorkshire in England but am really a visiting Geordie from Newcastle in the North.

My day job is marketing, at the moment its a health / technology company but I've done marketing for all sorts.

I've written for many years, my two loves are fantasy, and urban/supernatural horror/thrillers like Koontz, King, Herbert etc. I'm an enormous fan of David Gemmell and I consider myself extremely lucky to have met him once before he sadly passed away. They say you should never meet your heroes but he didn't let me down.

I love comics, have read them for years, I'm self publishing and writing an indie comic at the moment, first trade done, working on the next chapter in the story.

I'm also a comics podcaster, as people weren't talking about the type of comics I was reading, so I started doing it myself and we've been going for over a year and a half.

I'm a gamer too, although not hardcore, but I've played or owned most games consoles and played a lot of games on the PC, and am currently re-addicted to World of Warcraft.

In terms of writing, I've just finished a supernatural horror/ thriller and am currently submitting it to agents, and have made a decent start on a new crime thriller, but am also working on a pilot for a TV programme for a writing competition.

Um, can't think of anything else at the moment.

Steve

[Boneman]

Blimey, Waffles, when do you find time to write? I guess all those activities and life experience give you so much to draw on, though?

So, since my avatar is Boneman, I am male and I will admit to being an Osteopath (that's a bit like a chiropractor, for those of you abroad, only much better.....)

My great, great, great grandfather was Captain Marryat (Children of the New Forest etc), and storytelling has always been strong in my family: my father had it..... I have it.... and my sister ha..... oops, wrong flight of fancy!

As I said in another thread, my older sisters used to read Enid Blyton books to us 'The Faraway Tree, the Secret Seven etc', so fantasy was inculcated in me from an early age. I used to read so avidly that I had to go to the library and read the book there, because their system of stamping the front of the book couldn't handle somebody bringing back their book on the day they took it out. (Wow, one sentence and three 'book' in it...)

I started writing back in the late 80s and it was mostly for fun, and my kids (now 25 and 23), and then I did some writing courses for fun,and got a bit more serious, entered a scriptwriting competition, and actually got short-listed. That encouragement still carries me on, and I write about three days a week now, doing about six hours a day. I fiddle with what I wrote at other times.

I play steelstring blues guitar badly, and ride a harley-davidson, but only when the weather is good, and I'm in my 50s, well and truly into a decent mid-life crisis ( my third. Or was it fourth?).

I love these forums, you can learn soooo much just reading through, but I also enjoy participating. 'Nuff said.....

[shadowbox]

Originally Posted by Boneman

I play steelstring blues guitar badly, and ride a harley-davidson, but only when the weather is good, and I'm in my 50s, well and truly into a decent mid-life crisis ( my third. Or was it fourth?).

Ah the mid life....my dad is doing that. But Ithink it's doing him some good. He's a spot older then you. What kind of Harley you got Boneman?


I went through a quarter life crisis....it lasted two years.

[Natasha_Rogue]

Wow...well it seems like most of you posted for a fairly long span of time before getting up close and personal but as is the norm of my genre I tend to be bare fached and brutily honest (That is when I'm not being sneaky and underhanded )
I am 28 and will be so for altleast another few years, decided I liked the age before tradition tried to shove another at me a few months back and I had to run for cover. I'm currently an Autobody Mechanic student and hope that I can use the education for pleasure rather then to keep myself and my children fed...but incase it takes me longer to become anything more then a starving artist it is another of my lesser passions.

I am also an addict...I am addicted to Urban Fantasy's, Medival fantasy's and for some strange reason the odd Mystery or Medical drama novel (I trip out of the norm sometimes...must be something in the ink) I have a hard time not making all my protagonist sarcastic and mean, sometimes have to spend time around nice people to have an easier time writing for my non jaded characters and have the most difficulty giving my characters any down time.

You're right...WAA. So who's ever writen so long they've replaced food with coffee for more then 12 hrs straight?

[Boneman]

[quote=shadowbox;1199980]Ah the mid life....my dad is doing that. But Ithink it's doing him some good. He's a spot older then you. What kind of Harley you got Boneman?


I got a Heritage Softail Classic, pearl blue and chrome, chrome, chrome...... 14 months old and only 4,800 miles on the clock....well, we've had a crap summer, again!