My name is Lauren (or, I guess, elms; with my luck, there'll be a whole hoard of Laurens running around here!). I'm from Alabama, which you may recognize as America's unofficial leprechaun haven. This seems like a nice place, although it's been a while since I last typed without chatspeak.
(Fun fact about me: I really, really love chatspeak. I am not joking. I get a genuine thrill out of dropping caps and making random line breaks. I leave an "I" lowercase and my heart leaps. It's sad.
Hopefully, though, in a literate environment like this one, I'll get used to typing like a coherent human being again!)
I pretty much grew up writing, but I've been out of the habit for a couple of years. Now I'm making my grand return, I guess - I get so many characters and scenes and musings stuck in my head, and I want to do something about it! So I've been reading a lot, as well as doing a lot of writing exercises, and joining a writing forum couldn't hurt my progress, could it?
What else... Arrested Development is my favorite thing on Earth. I call everything "silly," and I use the same turns of phrase over and over again. I care a lot about feminism, anti-racism, rape culture, LGBTQ issues, and generally not being obnoxious. I heavily judge people by their tastes in TV. I like tomatoes more than I rationally should.
I honestly did not mean to go on for so long; props to whoever makes it all the way down here. It's nice to meet you all! Thank you for reading! And, uh, happy trails! Or something. I really don't know what I'm doing.
