Post by aearwen on Jun 19, 2008 15:59:52 GMT -5
Well, lemme see if I can tell you folks more about me than I did in the newcomer's thread...
I'm 54 and have been a stay-at-home mom to three great kids - all of whom STILL live at home, if you can imagine. After the kids were all were out of high school, my elderly parents went into a decline - and they both passed away last year. I'm kinda sitting a fence now, thinking about getting gainful employment outside the home on the one hand and perhaps learning to write and actually make money at it at home on the other. I also play several musical instruments, arrange music for a small group as a hobby, and participate in interfaith discussions here, there and elsewhere.
I think the Lord of the Rings universe - both Tolkien's and that portrayed in fan fiction - drew me in because of the life-and-death stuff I was working through at home at the time. Having the movies come out and make the books more understandable to me didn't hurt, though. I also have a learning-disabled son, not autistic but rather a high-functioning young man who simply cannot understand things like reading, money or other things. So dramas that touch on life-and-death or ethical dilemmas are of great interest to me - both to read as well as to write.
I have been writing one thing or another since I was a kid. I penned my first original short story when I was 7, and my first fan fiction, written before such a term was even used, was a The Avengers shipper fic between Steed/MrsPeel written a few years later. While I was pregnant with twins and then going through the fun of getting them healthy, I wrote a fantasy novel that I now know I'd have to dissect, eviscerate and vivisect before it would be even half-ways presentable. No wonder it and a number of fantasy short stories written at about the same time were rejected!! :-D
Then, about eight years ago, I discovered FFN in the guise of the universe that had caught my eye at the time - that of The Pretender. I was hooked! I started with short stories, and graduated to a series of novels that were well received. But then I discovered LoTR and got a gander at the increased quality of fics in this universe - especially on archives other than FFN. I've been reading for the past two years (my writing muse took a hike while my parents slowly declined) and am only now beginning to test the waters writing-wise.
I'm also still very much interested in working on original fantasy fiction - I have that horrible first novel and a reasonably horrid second one finished, a first attempt at romance 3/4s done on my hard drive, another fantasy that may never see light of day 3/4s done, and now a completely new one in the process of starting. This time, however, I'm looking to do a MUCH better job of storytelling.
For what its worth, you guys can blame NiRi for my finding this place - she mentioned it in her YaHell maillist, and I was over here lickety-split. I'm still working on getting the hang of how things go here, but as I figure things out, I intend on being VERY active.
And as I said in the other forum, thank you all so very much for allowing me join you.
I'm 54 and have been a stay-at-home mom to three great kids - all of whom STILL live at home, if you can imagine. After the kids were all were out of high school, my elderly parents went into a decline - and they both passed away last year. I'm kinda sitting a fence now, thinking about getting gainful employment outside the home on the one hand and perhaps learning to write and actually make money at it at home on the other. I also play several musical instruments, arrange music for a small group as a hobby, and participate in interfaith discussions here, there and elsewhere.
I think the Lord of the Rings universe - both Tolkien's and that portrayed in fan fiction - drew me in because of the life-and-death stuff I was working through at home at the time. Having the movies come out and make the books more understandable to me didn't hurt, though. I also have a learning-disabled son, not autistic but rather a high-functioning young man who simply cannot understand things like reading, money or other things. So dramas that touch on life-and-death or ethical dilemmas are of great interest to me - both to read as well as to write.
I have been writing one thing or another since I was a kid. I penned my first original short story when I was 7, and my first fan fiction, written before such a term was even used, was a The Avengers shipper fic between Steed/MrsPeel written a few years later. While I was pregnant with twins and then going through the fun of getting them healthy, I wrote a fantasy novel that I now know I'd have to dissect, eviscerate and vivisect before it would be even half-ways presentable. No wonder it and a number of fantasy short stories written at about the same time were rejected!! :-D
Then, about eight years ago, I discovered FFN in the guise of the universe that had caught my eye at the time - that of The Pretender. I was hooked! I started with short stories, and graduated to a series of novels that were well received. But then I discovered LoTR and got a gander at the increased quality of fics in this universe - especially on archives other than FFN. I've been reading for the past two years (my writing muse took a hike while my parents slowly declined) and am only now beginning to test the waters writing-wise.
I'm also still very much interested in working on original fantasy fiction - I have that horrible first novel and a reasonably horrid second one finished, a first attempt at romance 3/4s done on my hard drive, another fantasy that may never see light of day 3/4s done, and now a completely new one in the process of starting. This time, however, I'm looking to do a MUCH better job of storytelling.
For what its worth, you guys can blame NiRi for my finding this place - she mentioned it in her YaHell maillist, and I was over here lickety-split. I'm still working on getting the hang of how things go here, but as I figure things out, I intend on being VERY active.
And as I said in the other forum, thank you all so very much for allowing me join you.