The "I'm Back" Thread

Aet Lindling wrote:

Whether you've been gone for a week or a year, this is the place to let us know about it.

What about over a decade? ;3

Well, I hadn’t been thinking a whole decade ahead at the time I made this thread…*checks notes* twenty freaking years ago before the site was even a whole year old. but always happy to see friends return.

I'm sort of back, but also sort of new. Used to come on here way back in my teens (I had joined in 2012ish) and was here for a year. Then for a very brief time again maybe eight or nine years ago. Mostly as a social community and fiction/prose focused back then, but now I am here primarily to - as someone who's a total unc more than most here - help offer constructive feedback, helping less experienced writers grow, and also sharing & improving my poetry.

As I am a professional journalist with both reporting and editorial experience, I do not intend on sharing any - or at least very much - prose while publishing my work here. Primarily because I do not want to risk exposing myself professionally, especially since in the area where I live and the industry I am in, everybody knows each other, style is recognizable, and we often have bylines in adjacent publications; plus, I have bylines in various places and don't want to dox myself haha.

Now, like I said, I am here as a reviewer and a poet. Anyone let me know if they need any thoughtful review of their work or just general writing advice.