The Writers' Group introduction thread.

[shoeshine]

Hello.

 

Welcome to the Sheffield Forum Writers' Group.

 

Use this thread to introduce yourself to the other members and tell everyone a little bit about yourself.

Edited October 2, 2010 by Mantaspook
Removed obsolete membership list.

[lucymamba]

I have always loved reading, and writing to an extent though its started with basic things in English class at school!

 

I can get totally lost in almost any well-written book. I particularly like John Grisham, have read almost all of his, and a lot of other crime-type novels. More recently I have been reading Cecelia Aherne... pretty much 'chick-lit' but nicely done I am a complete Lord of the Rings addict, could read it forever, and am working my way through Harry Potter for the 10th time.

 

I also read a lot of 'fan-fic' on the net, from all sorts of fandoms like LOTR, to Buffy (I am a sci-fi nerd I think!), and have had the odd go at writing fan-fic before but never put it anywhere for public reading.

 

I am definately more of a fiction than a non-fiction fan, though I love good biographies, particularly funny ones, like Billy Connelly's and Graham Norton's!

[taxman]

I remember the first time my mum took me to the library when I was 3/4 ish and the first book I read - about dolls trapped in the attic or something.

 

By age 6 I could read encyclopaedias and was well ahead of everyone else in my class.

 

Since then I have avidly read and collected. Read a lot of politics books at Uni but I prefer fiction.

 

Have the entire Disc World series and the complete works of Iain / M / Banks.

 

Also enjoy detective novels, classic ones such as Ngaio Marsh.

 

Just finished My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk and before that Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

 

I regularly take 5-6 books with me on holiday and leave them in hostels, hotels etc when finished.

 

I used to write really good stories at school but I suspect any of my offerings on here will be in the form of travelogs

[TwoFour]

Almost a complete novice at writing, I have always been a bit anxious about showing other people what I've done. I have almost forced myself to join this group so that I can hopefully get over this fear with help of supportive criticism.

 

I enjoy most styles of novels..

 

Ian McEwan

Haruki Murashami (almost certainly spelled wrongly)

Philip Pullman

Bram Stoker

Barbara Kingsolver

Anne Tyler

 

etc.

 

Have done a couple of poems but nothing more than that.

 

Cheers

[Thasc]

I've always loved reading, the first book I must have read was Bears In The Night by Stan and Jan Berstein, which I still have a copy of.

 

I enjoyed writing stories at school

 

My favourite books are horror and murder mystery

 

I have written several fan fiction stories which do tend to be rather long but I am quite sure I can get into the habit of writing shorter tales

 

I am currently reading Entombed by Linda Farnstein which is a murder mystery story encompassing Edgar Allen Poe

[Jabberwocky]

I was the only 5 year old to be allowed to use the adult section of The Library, I wasnt allowed to read smutty stuff, but by the age of 6 I was reading Edgar Allen Poe and H.G. Wells.

I then progressed to Asimov, Clarke and by the age of 8 I had lost the ability to discriminate. Basically I read whatever I could get my hands on.

At the moment I`m Re-reading The Diskworld sieries, but slowly, very slowly because basically I`m losing my sight and expect to be blind sometime in the next decade or so.

The stuff I write, are basically memories of things that I did in the past, I have several already written and saved to the computer, which is lucky because I`m not really allowed to spend too much time using my eyes.

All I have to do is edit a lot of swearing out of my stuff, and once I do that, I`m ready to go.

[Rich]

I'm Rich aged 30 from Stannington, I enjoy reading sci-fi books although I don't read these days as much as i used to.

 

My contributions to this group will be mainly in the sci-fi genre of writing probably, as I used to regularly write my own Star Trek themed stories in Word with me as a Starship Captain and crew based on friends I know and stuff.

[Zinger549]

I like reading biographies and some fiction stories. Most of the time i'm not reading a book i'm reading a magazine or the newspaper. I have written a few short stories which have been ok

[cherry cake]

Hi im not gonna bore you with an essay i love going out with friends quiz night uv got 2 live for quiz nite im gonna win lottery 1 day unless its a fix then maybe not does anyone actually come on this site in the day cuz nooones in the live chat room i dont get it ????? help me out im new 2 this x

[absynthfairy]

I'm Joey, I'm 27 and I'm an RE Teacher (and not an alcoholic!)...I don't read as much as I used to but I was a proper bookworm in my younger days. I like reading books that my friends recommend to me (usually about lurve and romance and that have pink covers) but I also enjoy the more intelligent works recommended by Richard and Judy (recent favourites have been The Time Travellers Wife and The Lovely Bones).

 

I'm a sucker for anything with a vaguely religious theme (but reject anything by Dan Brown) and adored the Philip Pullman Dark Materials trilogy - also enjoy the odd Harry Potter. As a teenager and an adult I guess I really enjoy/ed books by Christopher Pike - my favourite book "Sati" is written by him.

 

I wrote my first novel when I was 19 and am still re-writing it now - am determined to at least try and get it published. Think I've got a couple more in me but will post some of my short stories to hopefully get some help from new found "critical friends".

 

Shoeshine: Can we make a little rule about stories being written in proper english please? I can't bring myself to read anything in text speak and I might miss something good...