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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on Aug 22, 2018 19:23:57 GMT
Yay welcome!
Be sure to click on Get Started to get a feel for what we do here. Then head on over to Personal Progress Threads to make a thread for yourself. This is your own personal journal to talk about novel progress and life in general. Also, be sure to head over to the Bucket of Challenges to sign up for Challenges! We have FebNoWriMo, Steve the Writing Group, and the Book Club over in the General Board that we're starting soon. There's a bunch more. Feel free to sign up for whatever you want!
You'll need to hit 10 posts in order to view SYW, and 25 posts in order to post there. Even though it's a small forum, it's actually pretty easy to hit that just by playing some games and posting on other people's PPTs.
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Post by mj0923 on Sept 8, 2018 4:33:37 GMT
Hey there! I'm MJ. I've lived overseas (relative to America) for most of my life, and took to writing as a way to record just how crazy all of the moving felt. I've stuck with it ever since, and have been participating in NaNoWriMo for a few years now. Can't wait to get to know y'all!
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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on Sept 8, 2018 19:51:29 GMT
Hey MJ! Nice to meet you!
Be sure to click on Get Started to get a feel for what we do here. Then head on over to Personal Progress Threads to make a thread for yourself. This is your own personal journal to talk about novel progress and life in general. Also, be sure to head over to the Bucket of Challenges to sign up for Challenges! We have FebNoWriMo, Steve the Writing Group, and the Book Club over in the General Board that we're starting soon. There's a bunch more. Feel free to sign up for whatever you want!
You'll need to hit 10 posts in order to view SYW, and 25 posts in order to post there. Even though it's a small forum, it's actually pretty easy to hit that just by playing some games and posting on other people's PPTs.
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Post by brightandravenous on Oct 16, 2018 10:23:43 GMT
HI all! I'm Sebastian, or just Bast/Seb. I'm 28, blind, queer, non-binary and a little ridiculous. I found Steve through the NaNo forums and thought it sounded like a lovely place, so here I am. I'm...hm, well, I'm a story creature by nature, loving them in all media I can get my hands on. I write mostly speculative fiction, have one published short story and am also waiting to hear back on a few others. I am not strictly a plotter or pantser, choosing to make a bit of both when I create things. I like horror a lot, write mostly a lot of fantasy and sometimes consider poking sci-fi and then back away slowly. I have a lot of projects I want to accomplish, some of which are novel length but a lot are shorter. I tend to read short stories more often than novels, so it's the length I find myself more comfortable writing as well. If I could have any job, it would be the kind of job where I got to enable to create thins, cause I love seeing what people have living in their brains. And uhm...Yeah, that's it. Oh, I also sleep really poorly, so I"m awake at all hours and right now, I've not gotten rest if over a day, so I'm sorry if this is a little weirdly worded.
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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on Oct 21, 2018 21:29:35 GMT
WELCOME
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Nym
Clippy
I got no clue what I'm doing but I guess I'm doing that perfectly?
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Post by Nym on Oct 23, 2018 8:18:15 GMT
Hi there,
I'm Nym. Nym being my latest (still about 4-5 years old) nickname online. I have this maybe not so weird urge to not openly state my birthname and such online as Nym is just as much me as any other nick I got. I'm very open about myself but a degree of anonymity makes me feel even safer in being open about myself, does that make sense?
In a way it's also because I'm trying to keep my online presence seperate from me as I'm a freshly baked teacher and for the sake of professionality I don't wanna stumble into any of my students and have them know all there is to know about me. Unlikely maybe that it'll happen but it's not impossible since so much of a lot of our time is spent online in different forums.
So yes, I'm a language teacher, mainly Swedish and English. Depsite that, my English is horrendous at times because I'm lazy and I make mistake. Talking about grammar tho? Love doing that. Syntax issues? Super interesting. Obscure words I never heard before? I soak them up and usually forget them just as quick but I like hearing them. Also Puns. Puns are amazing. There's never enough puns.
Uhm what else.... I'm terrible at making introductions of myself but I do like to explain myself, and I never know how much is enough. Soo... I'm 26, from Sweden, I have too many interests but among those the biggest ones are reading, writing and playing certain games that just soak up all free time I got. I'm also always overly busy. Like... if I list everything I do it looks like I don't got time to sleep busy. Which I actually do have time for, mostly since i usually only need about 6h of sleep - lucky me I guess. I do not like mornings or cleaning but I like it when it's neat and organized and I do my best work with pretty much anything in the mornings. Paradoxal life for me that since it requires getting up early and keeping things clean -_-'
Uhm... what else... I got a cat. She is cute. She's a terrible hunter unless it's mosquitos or some kind of crawling bug. Those she pounces. Spiders are apparently just made for stalking and sometimes touching. But not actually pouncing. Silly cat.
I also do a lot of textbased freeform rp with a close friend of mine. We tried to rewrite into a story once but... yeah, it was more fun to produce new content. However, when I do write I usually write about my characters from those universes. I just wish I could produce that much text on my own as I'm able to do when rp-ing. Have you guys ever experienced lag when writing in google docs because the document reached a few hundred pages? Yeah, that's our problem... we got a bunch of those kind of laggy google docs, like 5 or 6. Fun times. :3
I'm also terrible at finishing things, tho excellent in getting them started. Hopefully, one day I'll finish things more often than I do currently.
Also hi. I tumbled in from the discord which I found through nanowrimo.
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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on Oct 26, 2018 23:28:17 GMT
WELCOME!
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Post by opide on Nov 5, 2018 4:06:53 GMT
Hey guys! I guess I'm new here thanks to the Nanowrimo forums and my ability to do anything possible to put of writing. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing. I am 28, I joined the discord first and then found out you had a forum so I joined that as soon as possible. I tend to write sci fi or fantasy, but also poetry if the mood hits me. It sounds cheesy but writing poetry is a good way for me to sort out my feelings when I get all worked up about things. I do play Dungeons and Dragons, as both a DM and a player. I would say that I am a better player than a dm, but my friends claim that I'm a better dm than a player. I think this is mostly so they can get out of dming themselves. At the moment I'm actually using my favourite DnD character as the main character of Nanowrimo novel. I'm not sure what else to write, I'm bad at talking to myself. I'm a pantser, not a planner. I do suffer from chronic and mental illness, so if I end up dissappearing for a while it's not cause I don't like you guys, and I'm sorry. I do plan to be here as often as possible though!
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Post by Siana Blackwood on Nov 5, 2018 6:03:11 GMT
Hi, opide, and welcome to the forum. Here, you can keep a personal progress thread (a good place for longer posts that feel too big for Discord, or for stuff about writing and life that you want to be able to find again in a few days). We also have the Show Your Work section for critique and encouragement, random games and procrastination, and... well, basically similar stuff to Discord but on a slower schedule and much easier to find stuff again later. We also used to have various challenges, but haven't started any new ones for a while. Also you get to meet the weird other admin of Steve-related things who gets too stressed out trying to keep up with Discord and basically just hides here (Oh, and the Show Your Work section has a special requirement for entry - once you've posted 10 times on other parts of the forum, you'll be able to read and reply to threads there. You'll be able to start threads of your own when you've hit 25 posts total. The post count is in the sidebar, just under your user pic.)
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Post by roccult on Dec 6, 2018 23:05:09 GMT
Hi, everyone! I'm Roccult, and I go by that username on the NaNoWriMo forums, too. I just found this forum by searching for NaNoWriMo-esque challenges to do outside of November, and had to join. Writing's easier for me with challenges/prompts/what have you.
I mostly write sci-fi/fantasy, with some horror here and there, and I'm more of a plotter than a pantser. The first story I wrote over 1-2k words was for NaNoWriMo 2011, and I didn't write for maybe 2 years afterwards. Burnout lol. I'm writing more regularly nowadays.
My hobbies are Star Trek (yes, that's a hobby lol. My favorite series is DS9), MTG, needlework (mostly knitting and cross-stitch), and reading and writing, obviously.
I might not be around too much because I'm a little flaky, but let's hope for the best!
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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on Dec 7, 2018 1:12:48 GMT
Hey roccult! BEST. HOBBY. EVER!!! So hey, you should consider joining our Discord group as well! We have members that are active there that aren't active here, and vice versa! (Also THERE BE TREKKIES THERE.) discord.gg/9eqgeZXAnyway, welcome to Steve! Check out the Start link, have a look around, and feel free to let us know if you have any questions!
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Post by satanfish on Jan 4, 2019 4:06:22 GMT
Hmmmm my lurking has been so successful, I forgot to introduce myself here, WHOOPS. Anywho! Hi gang! I'm SatanFish (or SatanKitten, if you're in the Discord group! ). I write mostly fanfic these days in the spy genre, but every now and then I'll try to work on my urban fantasy/mystery original work, get frustrated because what I am writing is not how I see it in my head, and then go back to fanfic. I first came to Steve back during NaNo - there weren't any write-ins near where I live and I was too shy/anxious to ask for one closer to my area, so I ended up looking through the forums for a writing group to join, found Steve, and, well, you guys have been stuck with me since. Lessee, what else can I say about myself... I'm 26, she/her pronouns, and bears are my favourite animals ever. I can be very shy when it comes to interacting people, but I'm getting better! I actually got my start in writing doing forum roleplay, back when I was a bby!SatanFish. I then took a hiatus from roleplay to focus on other writing pursuits, mainly poorly written Neverwinter Nights fanfic, but, y'know, we all gotta start somewhere and thankfully, I was too shy to ever share it with anyone haha. A much older SatanFish returned to roleplay out in Tumblr-land probably five or six years ago. Eventually, I got frustrated with the lack of fanfic for my rarepair ship, so I decided to write fanfic again and publish it this time around. I'm very excited to say that I finished that fanfic for NaNo this year, which is super exciting for me because I literally never finish anything, AND that I worked up the courage to share it with my fam as well as a few coworkers! I'm currently working on the sequel(s) (and a prequel!) for the Millwordy (Milwordy? I can't remember if there's one 'l' or two ) challenge. Uhh... what else about me... um.... Dragons are cool. Parentheses are cool. Emojis are cool. Spiders are not cool. Spiders are very UNCOOL.
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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on Jan 5, 2019 5:12:58 GMT
Yooo satanfish welcome! Be sure to create a PPT for yourself over in Personal Progress Threads if you want to talk about your work here! Also be sure to review Start and also the challenges!
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Post by jenpants on Jan 8, 2019 4:05:04 GMT
Heyo, I'm Jenny! *waves* I've been working on a story for a few months now that I've been wanting to get done for a while (it's proving difficult since I'm pretty out of practice with writing in general). I'm found the forum through the discord group Hoping this year proves to be the year I finally git it done! When I'm not writing, I'm usually gaming. Or streaming. Or taking millions of screenshots in Sims xD Looking forward to getting to meet everyone!
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Post by Jᴀy V. Aꜱᴛᴇʀ 💀🐍 on Jan 14, 2019 2:05:31 GMT
Hey jenpants! Welcome to Steve! Be sure to click on Get Started to get a feel for what we do here. Then head on over to Personal Progress Threads to make a thread for yourself. This is your own personal journal to talk about novel progress and life in general. Also, be sure to head over to the Bucket of Challenges to sign up for Challenges! We have FebNoWriMo, Steve the Writing Group, and the Book Club over in the General Board that we're starting soon. There's a bunch more. Feel free to sign up for whatever you want! You'll need to hit 10 posts in order to view SYW, and 25 posts in order to post there. Even though it's a small forum, it's actually pretty easy to hit that just by playing some games and posting on other people's PPTs.
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