Introduce Yourself here and say Hi.

Hi Mike. Welcome e to the site. Bloomsbury, that was Zonker all those hippies, right? :)

I taught music composition at bowling green state university for 41 yrs, but have been retired since 2010. Still classical concert music but only teach master classes on the road built around residencies and concerts. I want to write short stories and am finishing my first short story.

Welcome to the site BBM. Hope you are enjoying retirement as much as I am! :)

Hello, I'm from Turkey. I can help everybody who interested in Turkish Literature. Also, I want to be a Interpreter. Accordingly, I'm improving my English and I may make mistakes (I hope this paragraph is correct grammatically). I had been searching a forum where I can read and write on literature, and I found there. Moreover, I love Russian and French Literature.

Hi my name is Alana & i am new to this site

Merhaba TLB and welcome to the site. You will find many lovers of Russian and French literature here. Please make yourself at home. :)

Hello Alana and welcome to the site. :)

Hi, I'm also new here (obviously). Like Samercury above, I also love languages. I can speak and read Japanese, Spanish, and some German and Russian besides English. I would also like to study ancient Greek, Sanskrit, Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew... <sigh> So many languages, so little time....
I actually don't much like poetry, but Japanese and German poetry in the original languages is great. I don't know what it is about English, but most of our poetry is not that good (IMHO). As for fiction, Paul Auster, Hermann Hesse, and most hard science fiction (not <shudder> fantasy, except for JRR Tolkien, who was a god)....

Hi everyone...
im from indonesia
i like to talk about french litterature and comparative literature.. :smile5:
my favorite author is haruki murakami (well he is japanese but i still love his books), albert camus, sartre, kafka etc.. :smilewinkgrin:

Hi Lurgid and Ica. Welcome to the site. Make yourselves right at home.

That's a nice idea of converting one's stories into short-movie scripts. That might be one way to test the effectiveness of the short story's plot. Welcome!

Hello guys, I'm Giuliano( yea, really no point in coming up with a nickname). Unfortunately I had already posted a thread before thinking about introducting myself, but hey, better now than never. While we are at it, I hope you will allow me to take the liberty of asking whether you'd like to provide your thoughts on my thread "Should a non-native speaker write in english?" under "general literature"( I can't post the link, apparently).

Hi Everybody. I'm a librarian, and I guess you could call me a scholar as well. I wrote my doctoral thesis on Shakespeare, and I'm in negotiations to get it published. A book on Shakespeare...now that's a dream come true. I'm about to ask a very specific question in another part of the forum. Maybe you could help me with it! Thanks much.

Hey Giuiliano and Watch-dog. Welcome to both of you! Good luck on getting published, WD. Sounds like a really exciting time. :)

Thanks Pompey! :)