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Welcome to my special little corner for Group 14. Somewhere to settle onto the comfy sofas, make a cup of coffee, grab a cookie and chat!
Group 14 Members
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Welcome to the rest room!
ReplyDeleteI invited you all to a dinner party, so would you all like to share a starter (something about you), a main (something about your writing), and something sweet to finish.
My starter:
I am an engineer by profession and after years of dreaming stories, finally started to write them down last October, when I started this blog. I am married with two grown daughters.
Main:
I am currently working on my first (high fantasy) novel, which I am currently picturing as the first of a trilogy. I also have a fair amount of outline prepared for a sci-fi novel set in the world of asteroid mining. I have germs of ideas for two more books about the same characters after that. I have a couple of MG books tucked away in my head too. It gets a bit lively in there!
Something sweet:
Next year will be my daughters wedding, our silver wedding anniversary and my parents-in-law's golden wedding anniversary. What a year!
Starter--I majored in Molecular Biology and English for undergrad, and I have a Master of Technical and Scientific Communication degree.
ReplyDeleteMain--I'm currently revising a science fiction novella I wrote over a decade ago. I'm also trying to get the sequel ready for submission.
Sweet--My son will turn four this year, and he's a complete trainiac.
It's great to meet everyone!
ReplyDeleteStarter--I've been writing for a long, long time. :) I'm also a mom of 2 kids.
Main--I have a novelette coming out this April called "TransShifter" by Melange Books. I also hope to "Indie" publish my novel this spring.
Sweet--I went back to college for a year and will graduate this March. (Medical coding and billing...also know as the future day job.)
I work in Assistive Technology and share a passion for writing sci-fi, fantasy, dark fantasy, and/or speculative fiction. I read just about anything. It's wonderful being a part of a group of wonderful, intelligent, and talented people such as yourselves :)
ReplyDeleteDominic, what a wonderful idea! It's been fun to read what everyone is working on. I hope everyone comes by.
ReplyDeleteStarter: I'm a stay at home mom of four ages 4 to 13. Other than writing, my hobbies include baking/decorating cakes, gardening, running, and anything outdoors.
Main: I keep coming back to polish my first completed novel Sendek, but have half of the next book written with two more in the series outlined. It is a sci fi/fantasy mix with a good dose of romance. I love fast paced stories and when I submitted Sendek to a small publisher they said it felt "rushed". Thus another round of revisions to flesh it out a bit more. I also have an urban fantasy started that might end up YA or new adult.
Sweet: I've known my hubby since we were 12 years old. We went to our first dates and dances together and I waited for him when he served a two year mission for out church. We've now been married almost 15 years and it just keeps getting better.
Charity, I hope you don't mind me asking, but who was the publisher? Don't feel you have to answer.
ReplyDeleteCindy.
okay so here we go:
ReplyDeleteStarter: I am 29, no kids and still in college. My major is English. I like animals and occasionally people when they are awesome.
Main: I am working on a mafia-esque story set in an alternate universe. No powers or anything just alternate earth. I also have one that I've been writing since I graduated high school about immortality. That one has long since been put on the back burner though. I'm currently working on a dark fantasy short.
Sweet: My little brother is currently studying to be a pastry chef. and my little sister is made of candy...(though she denies it vehemently.)
GO GROUP 14!
-Gen
This is a good idea!
ReplyDeleteStarter - I'm currently an undergrad double majoring in creative writing and film. Contrary to what you may think, I have no idea what I want to do after school. I was told to major in something I enjoy, so I did.
Main - At the moment, I consider myself a short story person. I'm currently editing a one about a psychic in a coma. This will eventually be edited to take place in the 1950s. In the meantime, I'm writing about a part-human soldier attempting to integrate into human society. I also consider myself really lucky to have a creative writing instructor that is open to speculative fiction this semester (it's really a hit or miss).
Sweet - I spent mid-September through mid-January in Europe as a study abroad program that turned into the travel journey for a lifetime. Favorite countries are Norway and Germany. Favorite cities are Stockholm, Sweden and Florence, Italy.
Nice to meet you guys!
Hi everybody! Thanks for having us over, Dominic.
ReplyDeleteMy starter - I'm 35 and work as a computer programmer for a small company in Burlington, which writes web applications for companies that have lots of field technicians on the road, mostly cable and satellite install subcontractors.
My main - I've just applied to go to the Clarion and Clarion West workshops for this summer, and I'm now putting together an application for the Odyssey workshop in New Hampshire.
Sweet - I went to a writer's day workshop on writing for Children and Young Adults yesterday, in downtown Toronto, and had a great time!
Hi, everyone!
ReplyDeleteIt's great to learn more about Group 14, and find out what's happening. :) What a great idea, Dominic!
My Starter: I was adopted from Hefei, China and now live in the USA. I am currently homeschooled and love it. I have a crabby but cute cat, write passionately when I'm in the mood, (which is often) and have a great affinity for blogging.
My Main: I am working on a Young Adult Dystopian novel for fun, and revising/rewriting/editing a Science Fiction book which I recently finished and it is yet to be decided if it's a trilogy or not.
Sweet: Being a part of Group 14!
Hello all. Thanks for having me over, Dominic.
ReplyDeleteStarter: Ah, what to say about me? I'm not terribly interesting, and I keep it that way on purpose. I work as a substitute teacher by day, and the rest of the time I try to get my online shop to pull its weight. I get looks but no sales (sigh).
Main: My current project... I'm still trying to come up with a good line to describe it. It takes place on a different planet mostly populated by colonists from earth. But it's not about that.
I have two other books in the works. Both of those are straight up fantasy (probably considered high fantasy, but I hate that designation). One is on a break, the other is part way through the first draft.
Sweet: There's a cat in the house, but she's not mine. Since moving in, she sits with me when I write. Her name is Babies (yes, plural). I did not name her.
Thanks for coming everyone. It's been great to get to know you all a little more. Hoping the other five in our group will be able to drop by. Give them a nudge if you see them around!
ReplyDeleteHi Dom. Great idea - sorry I didn't get here sooner, I've been up to my ears with decorating the house. Sigh!
ReplyDeleteStarter: I've had long a career in science and engineering, and now I'm a luthier. I've always loved writing, and I find that the older I get the more I do.
Main: I'm currently editing a NaNo manuscript, and I'm getting started on a sci-fi fantasy set on Earth and another planet some time in the future. I'm very much an outliner - I can't do the pantser thing otherwise I just ramble and lose my way.
Sweet: I live with my girls. They are my lovely wife Margo and my two cats Sulis and Minerva. What more could I ask?
Hello everyone, sorry for being late to the party! It's been fun reading over all that's been going on this break room, however ;)
ReplyDeleteFor starters, I am an English undergrad specializing in creative writing. I have some of the most amazing professors in the country. I also have two jobs in addition to max credits, so if I sound scatterbrained online, it's probably because I am at the moment. ;)
For the main course, I am currently working on several short stories, several poems (these come and go), and I've been piling up on half-written projects and novels that I really should sit down and focus on. I've been writing a long time - which is not to say I've been producing anything worth writing - so I have a lot of doc files and a lot of folders, but really only a few things that I focus on at a time.
For short stories I tend to go the way of the absurd, with a touch of British humor as I've been told before; in my poems I'm even more absurd, with upside-down worlds and talking gargoyles; and I tend to take it more lightly (or is it heavily?), more realistically, in the novel. Magical realism is what I aspire to, and though I will never get there, it's fine because I will have developed my own voice along the way.
Finally, sweetly, I will be moving in with a few good friends in the summer, and we are planning on going absolutely wild on deco. I've plans to collaborate on a project with one of them. I can hardly wait.
I vote that we do something like this - every week or two weeks or month, taking turns on each's blogs so that we keep in touch with the progress of how everyone is doing. Thoughts?? =)
As an extra-special treat, Dominic, I've profiled your blog in my Crusader Spotlight this week. Congratulations! I'm sorry, I couldn't think of anything else to mention in the profile, it's late, but hopefully I plugged you enough that a few more surfers may come over and take a look.
ReplyDeleteAnd also, I support jys's notion of gathering in each other's blogs on a semi-regular basis to stay in touch. Who wants to take a turn next?
ReplyDeleteHey Dom. Thank you for the invite! This is such a wonderful idea!
ReplyDeleteStarter: I worked in finance for many years, but now I am a stay-at-home mom. I love being around my daughter most of the day. I volunteer often for her school, which I enjoy as well.
Main: Writing has become my hobby. I have always enjoyed it, but I find that I am very critical of my own work. I have yet to finish a novel, though I have worked on a couple. I keep scrapping my ideas. I know. I have been told that's a bad idea, but I'm learning as I go that nobody sees their own work as perfect. Now I am starting another idea. It's sci-fi/fantasy, and I'm promising myself not to scrap it this time.
Sweet: I have a lovely daughter and husband that I love spending time with. We also have two awesome cats that are part of the family.
This room would be way better if it was a chatroom that I could enter and hang out. I wonder how difficult that would be to encode.
ReplyDeleteReal-time chat is very much a different beast from blogs and the rest of the web, though I've seen a few 'spoof chat rooms' which are basically just bulletin boards that show only the last 30 posts, along with who posted them and when, and auto-refresh so that you can see in a few seconds when somebody makes a new post.
ReplyDeleteI do like the idea of a Crusader chat room, though - we could open it up to the entire crusade, since a group-only chat room would probably be pretty lonely for a lot of the time. Hmm... where can you get a decent chat room for free these days?
I'm not sure how many of you are in the crusaders Yahoo group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the2ndcrusaders/ , but it looks like they have a free chat room courtesy of yahoo, and nobody's really using it.
ReplyDeleteI haven't had anything to dowith yahoo, I must admit. #amcrusading on twitter gets quite a lot of traffic.
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