Hey, I've been a member for a couple of weeks here, so I thought I'd introduce myself and give a bit of background, but i'll keep it short cuz I know you guys are busy peeps!
So why did I start writing? Its probably due to (I'm copying old Lemony Snicket) a series of not very exciting events. I'm the youngest of ten children and I live in a small seaside town in Nothern Ireland called Newcastle, roughly about an hour from Belfast.
My family are all high achievers, so to be honest I haven't told my parents about wanting to be an author, for fear of killing them.
A few random facts are that I'm magnificently bad at maths- seriously, I should enter a competition at it or something, my teacher in secondary school nearly had a stroke trying to teach me! Also I like J.K Rowling, alot. In fact, I spent most of my holiday in Edinburgh last year going to the coffee shops where she wrote, scary, I know...Also I love making things up, people, universes, names for songs, ect.
I've only been a proper writer since last August, when a idea for book simply became to irritating to ignore and I picked up a pen and started writing...and then stopped, freaked out, and started again. Its such a cool experience, I wouldn't go as far as selling my mother for it, but i'd dangerously flirt with the idea if someone tried to make me give it up.
Thanks for reading!
And thanks for letting me join! I love it here, you guys are great!
Eimear xx
That's great that you've started writing, you should tell your parents about it - writing may not be a stable career, but it can let you rake in the money just by having fun! Just look at J.K. Rowling, I've heard that she is richer than the queen of England, just because she wrote a series of books! Is that awesome or what? A lot of us are J.K. Rowling fans here, and I'm sure that if you look in the fanfiction section of the writing area, you'll find several Harry Potter stories.
