Introduce Yourself here and say Hi.

Hi everybody, I´m a 23-year-old girl from Madrid, Spain. I was looking for a forum about books and literature and found this one, so here I am.

Greetings from Spain! :p

hi all, how are you doin... am new to this forum, i was sufing the net for literature forums and i found urs... I wish i have a nice stay with u.

Hello,
I wanted to give a quick introduction so here goes. I am 36 years of age and have been writing fiction off and on for some time now. During the day I work as a systems administrator in pale, and somber IT office and at night is when I change into (insert favorite superhero here) and all the fun begins.
I'm hoping to get some critiques on some short stories that I plan on posting and improve a bit on my writing skills. I am also looking forward to building relationships with other writers here.
For now I must return to the somber hell that is my office where I shall be flogged until I turn in a TPS report to my 3 boss.
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Beau Gauthreaux
Writing blog: http://fictionspot.net
Art blog: http://rhyminggoat.com

i need to say hi to you all here. i from guangzhou city of china. i happened to meet this forums a few days ago and login without thinking too much,'cause i love literature, and more friends who keen to literature too. to be frank,i am a new to english literature because of english is not my mother language. i sincerely hope all of you give me a favor in the part if you like.thanks firstly.

welcome everybody!:)

Bibliophile's are increasing according to my recent calculations!:)

Hi everyone!

I'm David from Ireland.

Looking forward to doing a lot of posting here.

Slainte

Hello everybody :yawnb:
My name is Lina and I am new here so it would be nice to hear something from you. I live in a small country up north, called Sweden. Literature is a somewhat new interest to me, so I would appreciate many tips.

Thanks for reading
Have a nica day
/Lina

Hello! Pryderi Agni, back after a long, long away!

Hi to everyone!
I am Olga from Hungary, my native language is Russian and I love Russian literature.
I hope to talk to intelligent people here, improve my language and get some advice what to read.

Hey. I'm a secondary school student from Ireland. I came to this site to be able to talk to people love all the same books I do.
Hopefully, I'll be sonn posting a good bit here.

Hey my name's Katherine, AKA justfrinny.

I'm 15, live in England and I (obviously) love literature.
I joined to find out about some more books and have discussions about the ones I've read.

Can't wait to talk to some of you :)

Hello, I'm Thomas. I currently have less than 2000 books in my apartment, which makes me sad. I love to read, and occasionally write, I will read anything from historical documents to Middle English to the occult and science fiction, or, if necessary to sleep, a newspaper.

Greetings to all.

hello
I am a new member to the forum, love reading and sharing

Hi! I'm a recent college grad, looking for great literature. I especially love reading poetry and fantasy. I'm interning for Fogged Clarity, so if anyone's looking for poetry or short stories from new authors (mostly in the Great Lakes region), check it out (www.foggedclarity.com)! Let me know if you know of any other good publications of this type for budding authors!

Yo, I'm not very familiar with forums, so I'm not sure if I'm doing this righ--

Oh, who cares...?

My name's Matt (aka Insomniac -- if you can't tell...). I'd like to say hi to everyone who's introduced themselves before me and also to those who've been here prior to this introduction ceremony.

Hi.

I'm from the notorious redneck state of Minnesota -- and I can prove Minnesota's notoriety of redneckness is justified.

Author's Note: This is a rant; there is no need to pay attention to most of the following paragraphs.

I just graduated high school about a month ago. Before I graduated, however, our class (of 2009 BABY!) realized something. We had not been taught grammar. Somehow, in nearly every year that our grade was supposed to have been taught grammar, we missed that important section. Fortunately, are English teacher realized this our senior year. Unfortunately, most of the grade had no idea what grammar was. That entire quarter of school was then devoted to grammar.

Most of my classmates sentences were composed thus, "Me and Billy swam to the pontoon and dived off it and kept doing it because it was fun and it was hot out and someone lost there swimsoot and cried because everyone saw his ****." This is a fictional example but many (and by many I mean most) of the seniors literally wrote similarly to this.

I'm lucky, as I loved to read books and therefore picked up most of my grammatical skills accidentally. Still, I'm unable to differentiate between interjections and conjunctions. Wait, that's a lie. . . ummm, *singing to self* Conjunction junction, what's your function? Bla bla-bla bla and bla-bla-bla... *thinking* Oh yes, conjunctions hook-up sentences...

This proves (in my opinion, anyways) that Minnesota is definitely THE redneck state. Well, there's Wisconsin and those **** packers...

Oh, my point of this rant was to lead up to me asking you guys to help with any grammatical errors you may find in my stories.

I really want to learn how to better my writing, and grammar is one of my sore spots. Transitions, interjections, pronouns. . . uh, conjunctions. . . um. . . interjections, semicolons. . .

You get the picture. . .

Author's Note: End of rant.

Anyway, I have a few previously written short stories (and short-short stories) that I'll try to post on here sometime. I'll also try to write (uh, type. . .) up some new ones.

What I'm really looking for from you guys as I write -- aside from praise and awe -- is help with grammar, punctuation (colons, semicolons, these things -> -- (dashes? Oh, uh, can I put parentheses within parentheses? (Is that how you spell that? (What's the plural for that? (you get the picture. . . (oops, I keep doing parenthesizing (and again. . . (okay, I'll stop. . . (seriously, I'll stop this time))))))) , and anything else it looks like I need help with.

Actually, I'm a terribly lazy procrastinator so there's a high chance that you guys won't ever see me again. I'm totally serious. It's hard enough to get myself to brush my teeth twice a day. I mean, really. . . twice?

In conclusion (<- haha. . .), that's all.

Thanks guys.