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Wysteria (Member)

Posted 1 year ago

I'm Wysteria and I write Tapestry, a medieval fantasy sort of tale. I'm studying for a degree in botany right now.

-Wyste

Big Melly Mills (Member)

Posted 1 year ago

Cool. That's a great name for a botany major!

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Cicerone (Member)

Posted 1 year ago

I'm Cicerone (aka Sam), and I write Cicerone, that really long-winded over-detailed generic fantasy novel. >.> I'm 25 and live in Winnipeg, Canada.

I'm a Library Tech student, which is basically the new underpaid Librarian, without the Masters degree and more computer skills (and people skills - we're taught not to act like the old-style crotchety Librarian who thinks they know it all). I'm in my last year of it, though plan on finishing my Masters within the next few years as once I get my Tech degree and transfer the credits, those and my normal University courses should add up to most everything I need for said degree.

MeiLin Miranda (Member)

Posted 1 year ago

Halloo. I'm MeiLin Miranda and I write An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom. I am a hapless, helpless perfume junkie who writes to support her habit. I'm also just beginning to develop Digital Novelists, a hosting/development service geared specifically to web serialists. It goes live tomorrow, and I'm still writing docs for it. :)

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Donna Sirianni (Member)

Posted 1 year ago

Yo. The name's Donna and I'm the opinionated ass of the group. I'm the one that'll carve into your work which will result in you probably wanting to throw vegetables at me in various stages of decomposition. I'm stubborn as a mule (I am a Taurus, after all) but I try to keep it in check as much as I can. I am only human.

I'm 25, BA in English with a minor in creative writing, I work as an underwriter (absolutely nothing to do with creative writing, unfortunately) because Sallie Mae will send Vinny and Joey to my door with their pet sledgehammers waiting to greet my knee caps if I don't pay them. I've been writing for 16 years and, with the time lumped together, I've only bee4n truly serious about it for maybe 2 years total.

I don't write any web serials but I like reading them and supporting them (pretty much anything to do with writing I'll support) but I do have a blog where I talk about my writing and dole out advice I've gleaned from various agent blogs like Rachel Vater's, Kristin Nelson's and Miss Snark's and other writing resources like The Toasted Scimitar and SFWA. It's all information's worth repeating, I think.

I'm also an insane Lost Boys fan. If you haven't seen that movie, go watch it now or I shall hunt you down, duct tape you to a chair and make you watch it. And you will enjoy it. But avoid the "sequel." It's mulled over hog piss.

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Matthew Scharley (Member)

Posted 1 year ago

Hi, I'm Matthew, or Spotty if you prefer.

No, it doesn't, and never did have anything to do with acne :P

I'm a 21 year old guy from Australia, and I write Arcana Dium in my spare time between studying for a computer science degree. Who'd have thunk it, a math major writing an apparently decent web serial.

Donna, an underwriter eh? Is that in any way related to an undertaker?

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Donna Sirianni (Member)

Posted 1 year ago

Ha! It would depend on the claim! Actually I have a cousin who works for a funeral home so the six degrees to the job isn't that far off.

Underwriting is a bit more bland. I write insurance, pass judgment on properties and all that fun stuff. It's kind of like actuarial work but without the math and equations and stuff.

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Alex McG (Member)

Posted 1 year ago

Hi there! My name is Alex McGaughan and I write Children of the First, a fantasy webnovel which is currently having schedule issues (which has nothing to do with my compulsion to make money for trivial things like food and rent).

I'm a 22-year-old creative writing major at Tulane in New Orleans. Until recently, my focus has been poetry, and CotF is my first fiction piece over 4500 words.

I play a handful of instruments, help run a reading series and literary magazine here in New Orleans, and work at a local charter school as a TA in the creative writing department.

I hate sleeping and eating, and my best friend is a ball python named Ozymandias (yes, I am a dork).

I'm really happy to see the new forums, and I look forward to getting to know more webnovelists. Yeah.

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Donna Sirianni (Member)

Posted 1 year ago

Tulane! I almost went to that school! Very cool!

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Flak (Member)

Posted 1 year ago

Aare these introductions for established members, or are they for every day normal guys too?

Iiii go by Flak or Michael depending on whether it's webs or meatspace. Been writing "seriously" since I was nine and I am now nineteen. "Seriously" means I still have records of it/remember doing it. By any measure of effort or quality I'm hardly serious. I'm currently spending a few months doing web-type stuff at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab for ridiculous amounts of money before starting college in January, where I'll probably learn that writing is completely beyond me.

Ummm... it's nice to be here :)

Iiii was one of those people who was on Pages Unbound but wasn't really on there, as evidenced by the fact that I only read the news of its demise this morning. Said news drew bitter tears of sorrow from my eyes. Then I found out that this place existed, and I will likely fade into oblivion once more after successfully submitting a story or two and angsting over the lack of reviews. Ultra happy!!

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Kayde (Member)

Posted 1 year ago

Hi! My name is Kayde (not pronounced kay-dee, as many people have thought, but more like "braid" except substitute a k for the br) and I'm new to WFG and to the world of Web Serials in general. I've been making up stories, though, since I was five, and I've been writing since I was eight.

I am currently working on a serial that I fully intend to post once all of the kinks are worked out from the outline, and once I do I'm sure I'll become that one guy whom nobody has the heart to tell that his writing sucks. No, I jest, I'm not really that hard on myself. =)

Anyway, it's awesome to see another site like this now that it appears that Pages Unbound is closing. Not that I ever, you know, posted a single thing on Pages Unbound, but I was going to. Eventually. You take my point.

Airship (Member)

Posted 1 year ago

Hi all! My name is Trygve Thevik (Try to pronounce that you English speakers you!), and I live on the western coast of Norway. If you have trouble with my name, you can call me Airship :P.

I was sort of semi-active in the PU community, and as that closed down moved to lurk for a while over here. I'm not currently writing any serials, but as some of you may know, I did try writing a serialized science fiction novel. It didn't go to well, I never seemed to be happy with how the chapters turned out, and then I just gave up entirely after a hiatus.

I still intend to write it though. The world in which the story takes place has existed in my mind since I was a little kid, and I'm not gonna give up on it that easily. This time around however, I'll write the entire thing before publishing it, so that I know I'll be happy with the outcome.

As we say in Norwegian: "Alle gode ting er tre." (Third time's the charm.) For now, however, I'm happy just lurking around and writing reviews for stories I read here. :)