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Chookfi Ishki
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STATUS: Slipped/Pinched disk in the spine - why I've been out for a week and on opiates and steroids for pain management. I still feel like someone's trying to run a pike through my back & down my arm. 8 yrs ago
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Slipped/Pinched disk in the spine - why I've been out for a week and on opiates and steroids for pain management. I still feel like someone's trying to run a pike through my back & down my arm.
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Joys of working at a University - I may do 40 hours of 8 to 5, but then I get to come in on a Saturday on occasion - hey, at least I'm getting paid Overtime. :-)
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Halito, Salve, and Howdy-do! I am a writer with elder influences, a gamer from the days when Dungeons and Dragons was "Advanced," and Star Wars only had three episodes (you wouldn't believe how the old fandom wondered where the hell the other three movies were, when the first one released read "Episode IV"). I have a penchant for prose, the occasional run-on sentence (some times I just have a lot to say), and bloody murder, mayhem, and mystery. I am, by far, not a romantic writer, I believe, as that my few glances at romance novels had me in fits of laughter, with a conclusion that there was indeed a reason why they were one-shot wonders; the genre isn't bad, and it is supposed to be formulaic rather than high literature - like Sudoku, it's an entertaining distraction for some, and there is not a thing wrong with that - it's just not my cup of tea.
So what do I enjoy writing - fantasy, adventure, things that just don't quite happen in the every day world and can take me away for a time from a trials of the day. I'm not really a fan-fic writer (to terrified to do so), but I would love to go play in the massive sandbox that is the Star Wars universe. And I have a thing for the H.B.O. show "Rome" (I have yet to watch "Spartacus"), and AMC's "Turn: Washington's Spies." In short, take history, use the underpinnings, but not get hung up on historical accuracy, and run with it.
Beyond that, I have a full time job, and projects under my belt, but it doesn't mean that I can't happily post at least once a day, if not more.
So what do I enjoy writing - fantasy, adventure, things that just don't quite happen in the every day world and can take me away for a time from a trials of the day. I'm not really a fan-fic writer (to terrified to do so), but I would love to go play in the massive sandbox that is the Star Wars universe. And I have a thing for the H.B.O. show "Rome" (I have yet to watch "Spartacus"), and AMC's "Turn: Washington's Spies." In short, take history, use the underpinnings, but not get hung up on historical accuracy, and run with it.
Beyond that, I have a full time job, and projects under my belt, but it doesn't mean that I can't happily post at least once a day, if not more.
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Halito! Savete! Greetings & Salutations from a Storyweaver & Gamer Looking for Company at the Fire
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9 yrs ago
Forum: Introduce Yourself
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[Insert Clever Title Here Because Apparently I Can't] - History, Mystery, Mythology, and Star Wars - Any Takers?
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9 yrs ago
Forum: 1x1 Interest Checks
Okay, wow, that sounds pretty muddled up, but let me straighten the Gordian knot out.
I really want to write, and team up with someone else who enjoys writing and being creative. I'm up for Fantasy Genre, or a pseudo-historical (i.e. not accurate) tale set in Ancient Rome or Greece.
Heck, I'm up for Star Wars.
I'm just about up for writing anything, anything to be creative and escapist, and fun.
I can do gods and mortals, slaves and nobles, warriors on the march, or assassins on a job.
I am rather shy about my writing, and so would like to keep to the PM as that I don't want to make anyone shudder with a run-on sentence or a misspelled word. And though I'm not a romantic by far (odd for a woman, I know), I don't mind brutality if it's needed in a tale.
Anyone up for brainstorming?
I really want to write, and team up with someone else who enjoys writing and being creative. I'm up for Fantasy Genre, or a pseudo-historical (i.e. not accurate) tale set in Ancient Rome or Greece.
Heck, I'm up for Star Wars.
I'm just about up for writing anything, anything to be creative and escapist, and fun.
I can do gods and mortals, slaves and nobles, warriors on the march, or assassins on a job.
I am rather shy about my writing, and so would like to keep to the PM as that I don't want to make anyone shudder with a run-on sentence or a misspelled word. And though I'm not a romantic by far (odd for a woman, I know), I don't mind brutality if it's needed in a tale.
Anyone up for brainstorming?
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Halito! Savete! Greetings & Salutations from a Storyweaver & Gamer Looking for Company at the Fire
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9 yrs ago
Forum: Introduce Yourself
Winds of words glide through the air, settle in the mind to stir the imagination, a raft of a hundred fireflies rising and falling on the waves of a grass sea.
So I write, and I game, and I've found my creativity thrives in like company, welcome muses to the dance.
I dare not say how many years I've gamed, sufficed to say I love my Dungeons and Dragons from the days when it was called "Advanced" and no other editions existed, back in the days when an RPG was played at the table with groups of flesh and blood people. Frighteningly enough, I've written an even longer amount of time than I've gamed, though I've never had the confidence to publish - and forget ever finishing stories.
Sufficed to say, my creativity is in need of friends, allies, folks who understand what it's like to smell the fires and feel the cool winds of autumn and want to go off on an adventure, even more so in winter, when snows bring the fanciful promise of monstrous ravagers, barbarians who feel not the cold.
I also seek those who tolerate my occasionally run-on sentences, understanding my inner editor is muzzled for a time to allow me to actually write, to let the mind play.
Anyone want to keep company at the fire, chatting, storytelling, gaming? Right now, with the world as it's been, I would truly welcome the company of the waif and the wolf, the Roman soldier and Roman slave, the Dragon-rider and the Dragon themself.
So I write, and I game, and I've found my creativity thrives in like company, welcome muses to the dance.
I dare not say how many years I've gamed, sufficed to say I love my Dungeons and Dragons from the days when it was called "Advanced" and no other editions existed, back in the days when an RPG was played at the table with groups of flesh and blood people. Frighteningly enough, I've written an even longer amount of time than I've gamed, though I've never had the confidence to publish - and forget ever finishing stories.
Sufficed to say, my creativity is in need of friends, allies, folks who understand what it's like to smell the fires and feel the cool winds of autumn and want to go off on an adventure, even more so in winter, when snows bring the fanciful promise of monstrous ravagers, barbarians who feel not the cold.
I also seek those who tolerate my occasionally run-on sentences, understanding my inner editor is muzzled for a time to allow me to actually write, to let the mind play.
Anyone want to keep company at the fire, chatting, storytelling, gaming? Right now, with the world as it's been, I would truly welcome the company of the waif and the wolf, the Roman soldier and Roman slave, the Dragon-rider and the Dragon themself.
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