Bandwagons: I like hitching rides on them.

[raze]

You can add me to the "found this community via smw" list; she was generous enough to introduce my writing on here recently, so I figured I could be less a hermit and try socializing with writers beyond the two or three I've known for years. I look forward to sharing in everything this community is about.

So, about me. I'm a gender queer, pansexual vegan who is sick as a dog and crazy as a loon (and sometimes naked as a jaybird); this is my light-hearted way of saying that like some of our other members, I suffer from chronic health conditions and mental illness. I live in Alabama with my husband and enough animals to make the producers of show Hoarders stiff in the groin - except, of course, they're all extremely well cared for. ;) You may occasionally see pictures of some of these critters on my journal when I need filler on account of writer's block.

You, however, are here to talk about writing, so more importantly, this is what I do: I write primarily fiction save for when I am doing informative/instructional writing. I believe my work would count as the sci-fi/fantasy genre, though I generally keep things pretty grounded in the sense of "no epic quests, no glorious battles, no dwarves with battle axes." I'm a little bummed about that last bit.

What my fiction DOES involve is this: my primary world and series (Raze) is about preternatural beings surviving as marginalized minorities in an alternate version of the world as we know it today. Virtually all of the themes for the seven volumes started to date parallel real-life social and ethical issues, ranging from blood sports to domestic violence. The series starts with the pretty standard fare of werewolves, but as it progresses picks up a pretty colorful cast including everything from vivisected PTSD-suffering harpies to gun-toting lesbian gargoyles.

Most of what you see on my journal will be from the Raze series - including a large amount of hidden content that you can access by request. However, I do dabble in other fiction, including short stories and other longer/novel projects. I am hoping to embark on a novel idea I've had kicking around my skull for a while for NaNoWriMo that occurs in the Raze 'verse but follows a pride of Tutsi werelions during the Rwandan genocide.

I feel like I've done enough wind-bagging about myself now. If there's anything else you want to know, just ask. Looking forward to reading some of YOUR work!

Comments

[whatawaytoburn]

gun-toting lesbian gargoyles

I am so shallow but OH! How awesome does that sound to me? Absolutely brilliant. I mean I am terribly interested in the social and ethical justice aspects of the fiction as well but! But! ....8so shallow*

Anyway, hello! It's a pleasure to meet you and I hope to get to know your writing and you, since you seem like a lot of fun. <3

[raze]

Aw, why thank you. The gargoyle doesn't show up until later on in the series, but she's a fairly significant character, as is her human lover.

[intothewood]

Wow man, that's intense. Vivisected PTSD harpies? Sounds like it'd put shuffling zombies to shame!

My stuff is way tame in comparison. I even (much to my chagrin) wrote what ended up being kind of a romance-y sort of love story but I was watching a lot of sad movies at the time and that's just what came out as a result. Basically I'm tired of the majority of gay fiction ending in tragedy so mine got mushy. Normally I'm not a mush.

I haven't published anything, I have no journal of my stuff or organization of any sort but I did post a few snippets on here, and I have an oddball story on my journal. I guess I need to step it up as everyone else is so organized. Those are some of the skills I'm hoping to pick up on here, stuff everyone except me seems to do!

[raze]

I shall offer you a solidarity fist-pump of lacking organization. I am horribly unorganized and have thousands of words of seven novels plus a bunch of unfinished short stories scattered across two computers, a half-dozen flash drives, and a few 'net sites. I'm hoping to pick up organization as a skill here, too, because I need it - badly.

[clare_dragonfly]

I would just like to note that despite my absurd levels of organization (my short pieces are generally well-organized on my computer, as well as on my journal), I still have a lot of half-finished stuff floating around and I'm not sure it does me any good other than giving me a fuzzy feeling of compartmentalization!

[intothewood]

Haha well at least you can kind of find your stuff? I tend to give everything the same name, same tags if I bother at all so it's an exercise in futility, I don't know why I bother except to perhaps pretend that I know what I'm doing!

[clare_dragonfly]

I suppose being able to find it does help XD I hope you figure out a system that works for you!

[raze]

Never underestimate fuzzy feelings! My problem is that I have an extremely poor memory, so I won't even realize that I've already written part of a work, and wind up writing it again - sometimes to good effect, sometimes as a frustrating time-waster of no merit.

[scarylady]

Hmm, I think I may have fought too many annoying harpies in computer games to have sympathy with them - vivisected or otherwise ;) The little buggers have an aggro range like no other, or that's how it seems.

Anyway,welcome! Nice to meet you.

[raze]

*chuckles* I won't lie and defend my harpies as not being aggressive - though "predatory" might be more accurate in my context.

Thanks for the welcome.

[elialshadowpine]

Gun-toting lesbian gargoyles? I WANT TO READ THIS.

Mind if I friend you? We seem to have a fair bit in common :)

[raze]

Friend away! I would like that :)