As if any of you are interested. (Let's not kid ourselves.) So, how about starting with the obvious so that we can get it out of the way.
I'm a twenty-one-year-old male, as you can about guess from the lovely information table on the left, here. (A big round of applause for information at our fingertips.) And I'm a writer. Yay, obvious.
Now for some less-obvious stuff.
I go to school in Iowa and I know Galatea and A.O. Avalon - 'twas Galatea who invited me. While I am a junior in college in Iowa, my hometown is in North Dakota - a little town of 200 people. I gradutaed with a high school class of 28. Small town, USA, you might say.
I write nearly everything; I've done novels, short stories, poetry, regular fiction, teen fiction, fantasy, sci/fi, nonfiction, and mixes thereof. It'd be better to say what I *haven't* done yet: Flat-out romance, mystery, and horror, though I add elements of romance and mystery to many of my novels. Horror I just plain don't like. So I probably won't experiment anytime soon.... but I will eventually. Needless to say, I like to be diverse - I think all writers should try to expand their horizons.
I'm working on really trying to imprint pictures on my readers' minds. If I could have a writer's creed it would be "Show, not tell." Then again, I also think all writers need to work on that - definitely self included.
I like to read any prose that can keep my interest, and I like both rhymed and unrhymed poetry, so long as it is creative and says something. I dislike poetry that feels like a verbal laxative spilled onto the page, and I'm as guilty of having written some such poems as the next guy. I don't like those either. I don't like everything I write, so a lot of it stays on the page and doesn't see the light of forums like these.
More about me as a person instead of me as a writer: I have a girlfriend who also goes to school with me. I am active in the Chess and Games club, Medieval/Rennaisance Club, and Consoles and Desktops Clubs on campus, and I sing Tenor 2 in Choir, even though I'm a Baritone by nature. Aside from writing I enjoy reading, video games, listening to music, bowling, movies, and Dance Dance Revolution, to name a few hobbies.
I also RP extensively, and I administrate an entire forum for RPing, though it's been a bit slow lately. (http://www.bpestudios.com/vbb if you're interested. /shameless plug). I'm also involved in a project called the World of the Tabula Rasa. It's mainly going to be a web-published collection of art and short stories that all take place in the same fantasy world - a fantasy world based largely on our Earth. We plan to expand into print after a while as well. Look for it in February. If you're interested in helping out, let me know by PM or contacting me on AIM.
I may as well end with contact info, then.
Name: Josh
Email: Eaglefan007@excite.com
AIM SN: antialias02
And if this wasn't enough information, I now shall field questions.
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