Intro Post

[scarylady]

Hiya, I'm Karen and I've been writing for less than  year. Everything I've ever read or watched, every game I've ever played has triggered ideas in my mind, but I tried writing about 25 years ago and gave up in disgust after one page because my dialogue was so goddawful. Somewhere in the last 25 years of not practicing, I improved; so when the game Dragon Age got so far into my imagination that I couldn't resist any longer, I found that, actually, my writing's no longer so bad that it made me want to ritually sacrifice it at midnight and bury the remains on unhallowed ground.

One year and 300k words of fanfic later, I cautiously stuck my toe into the waters of original fiction and wrote an erotic short story.  Much to my astonishment it sold instantly to an online anthology.  Hopefully more to come soon!

I'm 46, married and I live in England. No kids; I cheerfully had myself removed from the genepool at the earliest opportunity. I've been a live-role-player for a good 15 years or more (hence the icon, that's me at an event), so character immersion comes quite naturally now.

I like to write complicated politics, character growth and smut.  Preferably non-het, non-vanilla smut.

So, that's me in a very small nutshell.  Nice to meetcha!   *waves to everyone*

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Comments

[analect]

You delurked! The meaningful squinting took effect! ;)

Thanks for being here, m'dear. I think the connection between LARP and writing - with a particular view to character and development - is a really interesting one. Expect questions. Mwahaahaa.

[scarylady]

You appear to have mistaken my laziness, and inability to focus on a task, for lurking.

I've never lurked in my life, I'm far too gobby for that :)

Question away, old bean, either here or on gchat.

[analect]

Yes, but it would have been rude to call you a lazy old bat.

Oh, wait... ;-P

And I will. Definitely. Consider yourself warned. *evil grin*

[noctuary]

Yay! :D

You should submit your smut to Filament mag or something. They love smut at Filament! :D and I think they have short story competitions or something.

[scarylady]

You see, this is why I love communities. I didn't even know about this magazine as a consumer, let alone as a writer.

Thanks!

[noctuary]

You're welcome! :D