Rollcall: writers on BB

[AnyDream]

Some fantastic and interesting responses to this thread - I have read through it a few different times and really enjoyed the diversity of responses.

Spiceoflife - wow what a challenge. Do you mind me asking what type of course you're doing at Uni?

[allycat06]

As a journalism student I spent a lot of my time writing (read as -banging my head on the keyboard) Nothing published as yet but give it time.....currently doing the research for one on homebirth and finding it very hard to stay objective!
I constantly correct peoples grammar, speech and spelling so perhaps a career in editing is just up my alley?

I write album reviews for work, which is why I love my job! Is there anything better than getting paid to listen to music?

In my spare time I blog...music, pop culture and birth/breastfeeding/gentle parenting being my topics of choice. One day I will write the story of how I came to be a mama, it's one hell of a story!

My hubby is a seasoned songwriter/musician and blogs about politics.
Needless to say our house is filled with lots of paper with half formed ideas on it!

[Early Kids]

I don't classify myself as a writer, but I guess I technically am!

I blog, I currently run 4 blogs. One is for the kids photography (Photography by Toddlers), so not much writing there. One is their premmie journey (Parenting Premmies) I have another for my own diary, it's locked and for invited members only (there's just some things that you don't need the whole world to know!) and the other is a parenting related blog. I used to blog for a premmie related parenting blog but haven't done in sooo long.

With exception to the parenting one, the rest are all done for myself. I don't write for an audience. I do have premmie related info on my prem blog along with some special needs related stuff, but it's all mostly for my own reference to look back on and if I help just one more parent out then it's totally worth it.

I have written a few articles for people too.

I usually do it in my free time (HAHA)

[Smoke Jaguar]

I'm published, wa-hey! I wrote an article for a friend's little magazine and there I am, on page 5! Unfortunately, in some kind of oversight, I wasn't listed as a contributer...but clearly, I am I'm flexing my writing muscle, once again

[Mum2Romone]

Just bumping a great thread

[spiceoflife]

Spiceoflife - wow what a challenge. Do you mind me asking what type of course you're doing at Uni?

Sure. It was an interesting decision. I couldn't find any courses In Australia that really grabbed me, and I'm so nervous about writing (not having a lit background) that I didn't want to risk my stuff in the marketplace straight up.

But, I'm a Christian, and even though I never wanted to go to bible college, I decided to start a Masters in Christian Studies at Regent College, Vancouver BC (Regent College :: An International Graduate School of Christian Studies) all because they offered a concentration in the arts - essentially I could write a novel as my thesis. And that's what I'm doing!

Allycat - lol at the bits of paper with half-finished ideas!

Jennifer - yeah, I enjoyed the Writers' Centre once upon a time, too. Funny how life so easily swamps creativity. I really hope to keep making writing a priority, but it's going to be hard.

[AnyDream]

Just wondering if there's been any activity in the writer's corner of late?

I've written stuff recently. What else have ppl been up to?

[Sopdet]

I'm back writing, at the moment just scribbling ideas down. Up until recently I had a job that I wrote every day and since finishing that job, I have missed that side of things, so I'm back pushing my creative side again.

[angelaartsstudent]

I freelance as a non fiction writer but havent had anything published for a while. Last thing published was an article on GLBT indentities in virtual worlds and last writing job was for a women's health organisation here in Perth. Worked as an editor for a few local magazines years ago. Also write horror fiction...published in zines, but nothing else yet.

[PollyA]

I've always fancied myself as a writer, Started a Bachelor of Arts at uni when I was 17, Majored in Journalism and Film and Television for 2 weeks, (Hated journalism) so then I swapped to Creative Writing...LOVED IT! Had a very grey Elizabeth Jolley as my tutor which was an exrtaordinary experience and one I am very thankful for, and shared a class with people 20-30 years older than me, They wrote such rich I wonderful stuff that I decided to go away and live, and come back and finish my arts degree when i had some grey hairs and wrinkles
Now I am living... a grand adventure.
Lately I have been craving a creative outlet so I am going to do some local "Life Writing" classes.
Recently I have been inspired my some poetry written by a kiwi doctor. I am so privileged to hear amazing stories every day in my work, I might be ready to start writing again, and I am starting to collect some wrinkles and some experiences of varied, powerful emotion

I have been involved in an internet activity called 6 word friday at Making Things Up: A woman with a husband, five kids, and the occasional witty anecdote and my latest contribution is about being a working mum (The idea is you write about a topic in 6 word lines- this week was "For the Record"
its not my most creative but defiitely passionate...

I go to work. Most days.
I like my job. A lot.
My overwhleming passion is at home.
My babies. Part of me, us.
The love I have for them
Is bigger than anything I know
Mum's can work, and love BIG
I am a great, present, Mum
For the record, working and mothering,
Great mothering, are not mutually exclusive

[Jennifer13]

I've always fancied myself as a writer, Started a Bachelor of Arts at uni when I was 17, Majored in Journalism and Film and Television for 2 weeks, (Hated journalism) so then I swapped to Creative Writing...LOVED IT! Had a very grey Elizabeth Jolley as my tutor which was an exrtaordinary experience and one I am very thankful for, and shared a class with people 20-30 years older than me, They wrote such rich I wonderful stuff that I decided to go away and live, and come back and finish my arts degree when i had some grey hairs and wrinkles
Now I am living... a grand adventure.

Polly - are you sure you aren't my long lost twin?

I had a very similar BA experience (jealous about Elizabeth Jolley *green*), did film studies, Aust and English lit, theatre (great tie-in to lit) and comms. I had a professor who was semi-retired and studied at Oxford under Tolkien. He was awesome! Tried to convince me to go down an academic path with literature and put me forward for a position at a WA uni, but I went a different way instead. I did my BA externally through UNE and got to go along to residential schools with a lot of older students who were fabulous in a literature course - brought along life experience that you just don't get when you're studying with a bunch of other teenagers.

I'm just about to have my latest reporting efforts published by two companies. But you won't find my name in any contributing section! Probably best not to, more of you would probably be falling asleep as you read about efforts to rehabilitate water courses in South Africa!

[AnyDream]

Just bumping this thread again as I have loved reading it, and would like to hear what everyone has been up to since.

I'm stretching myself with a few short pieces for my local writer's group. Also turns out I have stumbled into a writing position at work, hoping to hang onto that role even though there is a restructure in the wind.

I would love to read any links, blogs etc that anyone is working on (feel free to PM me if you're wary about posting here).