Rollcall: writers on BB

[AnyDream]

Do you consider yourself a writer? Of prose, poetry, stories, blogs, articles, zines...anything?

Do you write for publication, or just for yourself?

How and when do you write, do you spend the time on it that you'd like?

[PumpkinZulu]

Me I'm about to go to bed, bit just subscribing so I can post back tomorrow at some stage, xox

[The[cookie]Doctor]

I am. Mostly of the poetic variety (freeform thought stylings).

I used to write very unedited and then I became interested in the way I wrote and spent a stage with a lot of rhyming. I found that PND took away my natural interest because I was usually triggered to write by emotion and those were stolen in my darker days.

I hope to get back into it soon. I have some in this section that i have shared previously. Will come back and link my favourites.

https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...alexander.html
https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...-july-1st.html

[AnyDream]

PZ looking forward to hearing about it.

Dragon - I was browsing thru the section before I posted this and noticed you had put up some threads earlier on...thought I'd go back and read them one evening when I've got a bit of time.

AFM - well I've written stuff a long time ago (ah that makes me feel old). Have always felt like a writer but don't have much to show for it, except dabblings & a few courses (good feedback). But recently I've caught onto the idea that perhaps I could fund myself a new sexy lil netbook if I can get a few things published so I'm brewing some ideas at the moment.

I feel like I'm getting to an age where I'm a little more 'seasoned' in terms of life experience, so what I write now is likely to be less introspective than some of my earlier stuff.

I'm joining a local writers group - dunno if it's any good - they're all about a million years old & retired, but they might have some interesting things to say.

[PumpkinZulu]

Ok I'm back When I was in year 10 I joined a small theatre troupe with my school (in a stage-management capacity) and ended up leaving to pursue it in a full time capacity. I ended up co-writing a play with the director that was eventually taken overseas and performed across the u.k. and u.s. Amazing experience, and I have the added (and extremely ****y) bonus of telling people that I co-writing a play that was performed on Broadway...never mind that it was a tuesday and wednesday afternoon matinee, or that I didn't end up actually going I found script writing really challenging, and also an excellent way to integrate some of the unfinished poems/prose I had jotted down over the years. If you would like I could post some, I never really considered doing it before. Dragon, your writing is beautiful!

[sneakysparkle]

I know its a bit different, but I like to think of myself as a songwriter.

I haven't written much at all since having my girls, but thats mainly because I usually write with a piano and I don't have room to set one up anymore!

I'd love to do something with my songs, but I don't think this is the season to do it.

[ElleJay]

I write short stories when I get the motivation - subscribing so I can post after DS has fallen asleep

[peanutter]

I'm considering starting journalling, to get my thoughts out a little more ... my whole world is consumed periodically by my birth injuries, but I've made a complaint now and so am hopeful that there will be a resolution soon, and then I can start moving on ... I'm wondering whether writing and painting about it will help, and will go from there ...

But long term, I plan on finishing my books, and I also want to write a series of tween books.

Not about vampires.

[AnyDream]

Yeah mine has no vampires, either, peanutter
Though it does seem like an easy way to make a buck (under a suitably neo-emo-girly-goth pseudonym, of course)

Peanutter, I have a passionate belief in the healing power of expression. I have no doubt that writing and painting will bring you insight and healing. I've been experiment with Julia Cameron's morning pages, and even though I'm not doing it daily, adn usually not first thing either, to be enormously beneficial. It's a little more stream of consciousness than the way I normally write my journal, and there is value in this.

[Inertia]

I write.. Lots. Well, a whole heap more before I became pregnant with Boo. Its fiction and more for me at this stage. I can do journalism and critique, but I prefer fiction.

ETA: Thats what happens when you try and type with people talking at you. You type random stuff and then hit submit!

Anyway, I practice on "RPG" style websites. I have one of my own somewhere on the interwebs and one of the set ups I created shall be making its way into the pages of literary novel soon enough - when I have the time.

[fionas]

A core part of my job is writing - but very dry corporatey stuff.

Or was, I'm going to change career.

So if I'm not writing professionally, then that may give me more passion to write more creatively. I've been known to write truly awful poetry after a few wines so hopefully I can improve on that. I do find that if I haven't written something that amuses me in a while, I start getting really toey and end up composing emails, Facebook entries, something/anything in my head so in that sense I "need" to write.

[thepixie]

I like to think of myself as one... but feel like a terrible fraud because i haven't written anything creative in years

[Indadhanu]

I like to think of myself as one... but feel like a terrible fraud because i haven't written anything creative in years

:yeahthat:

I haven't written since Shel and I got together. I guess I had more time on my hands back then LOL. I'd love to get back into it. All I write these days are assignments

[Starfish]

I would love to call myself a writer. In my younger days I have written the following:
- 2 fiction novels (1 was 130 pages of handwriting when I was 15 - one of my friends read it and liked it but unfortunately it got burned in a house fire a few years later. The other one is terrible and will remain in the dark depths of my old hard drive for all time.)
- 1 play that was performed at a festival in New Zealand (great audience turnout, one terrible review)
- PIlot for a sitcom plus several more episodes (submitted to TVNZ, but surprise surprise, not picked up)
- several short films
- several very bad songs
- a column for a quartely work newsletter, which I also edited during the time that I worked there
- lots of unfinished short stories

I am currently working on what began as a short story but now seems to be turning into a novel (20 pages and the plot is still not going anywhere ). I try to write each morning on the train to work. My main problem at the moment is that no matter what genre I start writing, it always seems to turn into romance/erotica (maybe I'm just not getting enough in real life...).

[Jennifer13]

I write all the time for work. Most of what I do involves writing that is published, but it's not necessarily interesting or creative (or attributed to me)! I do writing for annual reports, sustainability reports, websites, corporate brochures, newsletters, the list goes on and on.

Needless to say, my urge to write more creatively at the end of the day is all but dead. I used to be a member of the Writers' Society in NSW, but never got beyond submitting a piece or two for comps. Doing my Masters sort of killed that, because then I had essays to write and no more time!

One day I'll write something more meaningful and moving. Right around the time I get to finish the odd painting and take up theatre acting once again!

The good news is now I get to read more often, so the creative juices will be flowing eventually.

[PollyA]

Way to go mayaness. Awesome. I had a column in a journal once. About 4 articles. It wasn't meant to be creative in particular more newsy but I morphed it a bit. I'd think all the time about how to word the next column. There's something about the published word... It's pretty awesome.

[Mum2Romone]

Hi ladies

I've always consider myself to be a writer of sorts.

I always knew that's all I wanted to do other than be a mother

At 19 I went to college. Studied Journalism , loved it

At 22 I finally got a couple of freelance jobs editing and had one article published in Cosmopolitan ( Sydney) though they only had a small byline for my article and gave most of the credit to their staff writer.

I have written advertisements for Real Estate agencies too and that's what gave me the idea to try and branch into advertising as I wasn't having much luck with freelance ( I felt my age was a factor )

I began writing small advertisements for the local paper ( starfish will know the Torch )
Then became the advertising clerk ( I would put all the advertisements in the paper and edit any mistakes.

I tried to move over to the editorial department but sort of clashed with the editor ( I picked up ALOT of mistakes that he kept missing ) over time I became pregnant and left work to eventually take up freelancing again

when DS has been sleeping I have been writing a book , it's part fiction part non fiction, very tricky to keep going , and has definitely turned into part erotica ( as starfish said ) lol probably not getting enough here either !!!

I posted a thread on here before, sort of wanting some interest and therefore feedback but was sort of told this wasnt the place like I was trying to write a sex book lol

Oh well

I'll always be a writer regardless of what I'm doing, it's who you are, well who I am.
I will always pick every newspaper , magazine and written word for mistakes, sometimes I make my own but it's because I'm a busy mum not illiterate

I am a member of the Australian news and Feature Service
it's a database for writers, editors etc and you are entitled to a MEDIA PASS which can get you exclusive access. Lol
hubby always asks me to flick it out at clubs or places we see celebs to get a closer look. I'm sure it will come in handy when I really get back to it.

I plan to keep writing my book when DS starts preschool next week

[peanutter]

pick me! pick me!

I am a writer. I have written maybe 30 freelance articles, plus reviews over the years, mostly for two independent newspapers (one weekly, one monthly) and have done various reviews, photography and the occasional cartoon.

Those publications have changed hands recently, and I don't get any work from them anymore (not that I would have time to do it anyway, with a full time job and a four month old baby, and some semblance of a social life...)

My main projects are two books I'm working on - one novel, and a non fiction.

I also love poetry, but haven't had the guts to send any out for consideration for publication since highschool... wouldn't even know where to start, these days.

My writing these days is strictly business - but it does help

But I did NaNoWriMo in 2008, and am definately doing it again this year.

I would also love to start a blog, but am not sure how to make it cover its own costs, and am not really tech savvy.

I write primarily for me, but would love to make something more of it, so that I could have more time doing things that I love (like being at home with my bub and my man, and, well, writing more!)

hello, fellow writers!!