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hello, im grimmajunx, but i bet you knew that already. my favorite book(s) are the dark tower series. my hobbies other besides writing are drugs, video games, and...that's about it im 24 and if i'd let myself go i'd become a junkie. but with a goal in my life, which is to become a writer, then i stay sober other than weed until i give up one day which im sure will happen.
hey everyone! I'm 18 and i'm from India. Stumbled upon this site a year or so ago but registered only today..well better late than never!! I love to read but unfortunately we dont have much exposure to good literature here so i'm really excited to start exploring :D
Hey I'm Sam, from UK.
22 years old, and always loved books, but until now was far too lazy to actually take the time out to read extensively.
Les Miserables was the first book I chose to read 'seriously' and actually pay attention to, rather than just reading to send me to sleep on a night :)
It's now my favourite book.
Other than that I love The Brothers Karamazov, anything by Thomas Hardy and Jane Austen. 1984's a favourite as well.
Really into the classics at the moment, but would appreciate some tips for more modern literature that follows my taste for dire and thoughtful prose :)
Mainly like books that focus on society, and how it affects personal relationships and peoples lives.
Now I sound like a bore, so I'll try and redeem myself by saying that i pass my spare time with photography, music, friends and cosy drinking establishments, preferably all at the same time :)
Hi, my name is Peter. I live in London, and am studying Literature for A-Level, along with mechanics, philosophy, and history. Writing has always been quite a large part of my life, whether it be through poetry or prose. I also play guitar, bass, drums, and keyboard (everything except singing haha) and am in a couple of bands.
welcome to the forum peter. :)
Hi, I'm a fiction writer and podcaster living in Brooklyn, NY with my pet goldfish, Fred. I've been doing some audiobook-style podcasts of public domain literature on my website, and I've been really enjoying re-reading some of these works, many of which I hadn't read since college.
I look forward to participating in some lively discussion here on the forums!
-Frank
Hello everybody. I’m a British photojournalist and translator. I translate poetry from Spanish into English and vice versa. From French and Italian into English and Spanish. I never use pseudonyms. By now you must have guessed that I have two mother tongues (American Indians would call me a forked tongue).
I have translated a great Salvadoran poet, Roque Dalton, into English (one hundred poems) but due to family squabbling over copyright (he was murdered in 1975, the same year another great poet was murdered: P. P. Pasolini) I am not able to publish the book.
I have also translated other Latin American poets into English but I don’t know if it is possible to publish a book. I look for the way things will turn out spiralling from a chaotic world. I hope this forum will help the interchange of literature from different countries and cultures. I believe that is the purpose of translation.
I just joined to day in my computer class! I'm supposed to be taking notes on new technologies, but this is more interesting. And worthwhile. Anyways, hoping to establish myself as a young dark-fantasy writer, I've already finished my first short story last night.
"Come away, O child"... I remember that poem. It was rather sad.
Hello, I'm a teenager and an aspiring (hopefully!) author. I'm very very artistic and distracted easily by pretty colors and interesting sounds. I absolutely can't wait to share my stories with other people all over the world!
I've started two or three novels but stopped writing all of them at around chapter Five. I am in the middle of writing a story called Flick that's based loosly on my experiences with self-infliction.
Aside from writing, I love to draw, take pictures, listen to music, sing, and pretty much do anything creative. I recently stumbled into the rather confusing world of adult literature and am loving it. I'm participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) in order to try and actually finish what I start.
I can't wait to read some stories posted by the users here!
~Flick
Hi everyone, this is my first in any forum …
I come from a creative family were I grew among poetry writers, fashion designers, and artists this made me want to become a writer … I wrote a couple of short stories but not in English …
I love history, music, fashion and reading especially historical romance … my favorite author is Judith Mcnaught …
I'm a dreamy person with a vivid imagination … I really wish to travel back in time and see for real everything that I read about it’s a dream I had and still have
HI There
I am new to this forum.... stumbbled on it this afternoon while looking for information on poetry and how to read and understand it.
I am curretnly studying a BA in Communication Science part time as I work during the day full time as an office manager for an Investment company.
I love poetery but i am so clueless when it come ti understanding it and therfore i feel I am missing out on a very special side of literature. One of my subjects in English literature and one aspect of it is reading and deciphering poetry.
Some of my hobboes include reading, scrapbooking sketching etc but these days i find I have not time to allocate to hobbies with work and studying.
Hello!
This is the obligatory introduction post. I am...
a writer, I believe, although unpublished, and I don't anymore write every single day, which I believe to be necessary. I've attended graduate school for classical languages (Latin and Greek). I taught Latin for a year to college students and another year to middle schoolers (11-14 year olds), which was awful.
Now I'm taking courses in English and a fiction workshop, dabbling in freelance copywriting for money, and eating lots of rice.
Authors? Oh, I'm a big fan of Russians. I enjoy the grotesque and black humour in literature as well as "magical realism." Authors I've read or are reading recently whom I loved include Tolstoi (fave), Borges, Gogol, Dostoevski.
hope u all are f9
hi...everyone..i'm eva 32 years old, from jakarta, Indonesia...i just got an assignment to analyze english poetry..and idont know what to do..any ideas??? maybe we can start with the simplest poem taht i can analyze..but, any tricks or steps in analyzing poetry??? thanx
Hi, I am Anna. 19 years old. I am student at local language university. I write poetry and prose both in English and Russian (I am Russian though).My works were never published. Now I am writing a story called "Web" – I hope that it'll come out to be a good one. Came here because I was assigned to make a translation of a poem, which I don't know how to analyze first, I am really good at writing but analyzing is not my thing. It is – The shape of Nothing Happening by Patrick McGuinness. Thanks for listening ( if you did)