Post by danixiewrites on Mar 22, 2015 14:34:46 GMT
Edit: TL;DR: Hi, I'm Dani, I write stuff. Nice to meet you! *flails*
About Me:
I'm Dani/Sarah/Cera--well. Whatever you want to toss at me I'll respond to, I'm sure--and I'm 31, a mom, a crocheter, a Marvel fan, a roleplayer (forum and MMO and tabletop), a drinker of both coffee and tea, a musician, a NaNoWriMo ML, a world builder, a character torturer, and a creativity coach. I like...a mishmash of random things. Board games, MacGyver, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, The Green Hornet, 60's Batman, Angel, Big Bang Theory, Once Upon a Time, Xanadu, the color green, dancing really badly....ad nauseum. I write romance in varying degrees of heat (paranormal, sci-fi, steampunk) and missions/quests for an MMO video game. Apparently my intro posts ramble and abuse punctuation, as do my rough drafts. My polished stuff...hopefully does not. XD I read loads of things science fiction, fantasy, paranormal, 'punk, and/or steamy. I have some guilty YA pleasures as well. Not a fan of 1st person, but I can and do (and have) critique it.
About My Writing Path:
I wrote my first book when I was five. It was about a sheep. Who ran away. Pouvre sheep!
It also had handdrawn pictures.
I still draw like I'm five.
On the writing front, though, I like to think I improved, thanks to secretly practicing with tons more stories for class and amateur, journaled fanfiction; fantastic English teachers in middle and high school; history, math, and various other teachers who put up with me when, instead of a cold, dead report, I handed in fictionalized accounts of someone who'd excavated a set of remains, or someone who actually knew the father of calculus; and yes, even the terror that was college creative writing. (Clearly had picked the wrong school. Had no interest in writing literary fiction, and that was apparently all that was acceptable.) Outside of class, my writing moved into the forum RP arena, and I ran an RP site for...a long time. I continued to write my own stories, but I also switched my focus from creative writing to technical writing for my BA in English. (And worked as assistant editor of a newspaper. Copyediting skills, ftw!)
In 2006, I put the degree to work as a tech writer for a software company, and last week was my last day there. Not because I've got a paranormal romance novel coming out next month. I wrote several during my working career, and have spent tons and tons of time on the query trail, meeting and carousing with agents/editors, and have even held 2 contracts in my hand. It's my first release. It's also a self-pub, but I'd planned to release it while I was working anyway--if only health and stress weren't blowing up in my face. The time off is more to heal than to write--but of course I see my writing AS healing, soooooo...there will naturally be a lot more of it.
Which I'm looking forward to.
And my muse is happy-dancing about.
Know what else I'm looking forward to? Meeting new writing peeps. *waves* Nice to meet ya!
About Me:
I'm Dani/Sarah/Cera--well. Whatever you want to toss at me I'll respond to, I'm sure--and I'm 31, a mom, a crocheter, a Marvel fan, a roleplayer (forum and MMO and tabletop), a drinker of both coffee and tea, a musician, a NaNoWriMo ML, a world builder, a character torturer, and a creativity coach. I like...a mishmash of random things. Board games, MacGyver, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, The Green Hornet, 60's Batman, Angel, Big Bang Theory, Once Upon a Time, Xanadu, the color green, dancing really badly....ad nauseum. I write romance in varying degrees of heat (paranormal, sci-fi, steampunk) and missions/quests for an MMO video game. Apparently my intro posts ramble and abuse punctuation, as do my rough drafts. My polished stuff...hopefully does not. XD I read loads of things science fiction, fantasy, paranormal, 'punk, and/or steamy. I have some guilty YA pleasures as well. Not a fan of 1st person, but I can and do (and have) critique it.
About My Writing Path:
I wrote my first book when I was five. It was about a sheep. Who ran away. Pouvre sheep!
It also had handdrawn pictures.
I still draw like I'm five.
On the writing front, though, I like to think I improved, thanks to secretly practicing with tons more stories for class and amateur, journaled fanfiction; fantastic English teachers in middle and high school; history, math, and various other teachers who put up with me when, instead of a cold, dead report, I handed in fictionalized accounts of someone who'd excavated a set of remains, or someone who actually knew the father of calculus; and yes, even the terror that was college creative writing. (Clearly had picked the wrong school. Had no interest in writing literary fiction, and that was apparently all that was acceptable.) Outside of class, my writing moved into the forum RP arena, and I ran an RP site for...a long time. I continued to write my own stories, but I also switched my focus from creative writing to technical writing for my BA in English. (And worked as assistant editor of a newspaper. Copyediting skills, ftw!)
In 2006, I put the degree to work as a tech writer for a software company, and last week was my last day there. Not because I've got a paranormal romance novel coming out next month. I wrote several during my working career, and have spent tons and tons of time on the query trail, meeting and carousing with agents/editors, and have even held 2 contracts in my hand. It's my first release. It's also a self-pub, but I'd planned to release it while I was working anyway--if only health and stress weren't blowing up in my face. The time off is more to heal than to write--but of course I see my writing AS healing, soooooo...there will naturally be a lot more of it.
Which I'm looking forward to.
And my muse is happy-dancing about.Know what else I'm looking forward to? Meeting new writing peeps. *waves* Nice to meet ya!
