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Offline TheEighthRenewal

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Hello!
« on: December 11, 2020, 04:19:06 PM »
Hey guys, new to the forum wanted to say hi and nice to meet everyone.  I've been reading fantasy since I was 12, (I'm 40 now!) and I'm an author of fantasy as well.  Nice to meet other writers.  Tell me a bit about yourselves. 
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Re: Hello!
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2020, 04:56:15 PM »
Hi, welcome to the forum :D we're all very nice

I'm just a reader, not a writer, but we have all sorts hehe
Feel free to browse and contribute to the threads, maybe even our monthly writing contest?
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Re: Hello!
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2020, 06:47:47 PM »
Quote from: ScarletBea on December 11, 2020, 04:56:15 PM
Hi, welcome to the forum :D we're all very nice

I'm just a reader, not a writer, but we have all sorts hehe
Feel free to browse and contribute to the threads, maybe even our monthly writing contest?

Writing contests sound fun! I'll take a peek at it, thanks
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Re: Hello!
« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2020, 06:55:24 PM »
Welcome to the forum. Feel free to write any thread, even the old ones! We love threadcomancers :)
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'Yes' said Caladan Brood. 'You never learn'

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Re: Hello!
« Reply #4 on: December 12, 2020, 02:51:24 PM »
Welcome! There's a fair few of us writers on here :)
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Re: Hello!
« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2020, 01:37:05 AM »
Welcome welcome! I have a similar timeline - discovered fantasy at age 12, have been reading and writing it ever since, now 40. :D
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Re: Hello!
« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2020, 04:22:24 AM »
G’day! I can’t remember exactly when I discovered fantasy as such, but I was reading Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree and Wishing Chair books, as well as Tove Jannsin’s Moomin books when I was 6 or 7 and that lead me into things like The Hobbit. I write, although I don’t think I’ll ever be published, and I read a lot. Hope you enjoy your time here. We”re a pretty friendly bunch.
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I will expand your TBR pile.

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Re: Hello!
« Reply #7 on: December 14, 2020, 09:07:02 PM »
Quote from: cupiscent on December 13, 2020, 01:37:05 AM
Welcome welcome! I have a similar timeline - discovered fantasy at age 12, have been reading and writing it ever since, now 40. :D

Did you start on Feist also?  ;D  I got into it because of a game called betrayal at Krondoer, and I was big into dragon warrior at the time. From there it just expanded to a bunch of the D&D novels and I never looked back 
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Re: Hello!
« Reply #8 on: December 14, 2020, 09:09:13 PM »
Quote from: Elfy on December 13, 2020, 04:22:24 AM
G’day! I can’t remember exactly when I discovered fantasy as such, but I was reading Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree and Wishing Chair books, as well as Tove Jannsin’s Moomin books when I was 6 or 7 and that lead me into things like The Hobbit. I write, although I don’t think I’ll ever be published, and I read a lot. Hope you enjoy your time here. We”re a pretty friendly bunch.

With the (hopefully obvious) exception of the hobbit I hadn't heard of those.  I think when I was that age I was reading the Ramona books, and a set of books by an author named John Bellairs 
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Re: Hello!
« Reply #9 on: December 15, 2020, 04:40:42 AM »
Quote from: TheEighthRenewal on December 14, 2020, 09:09:13 PM
Quote from: Elfy on December 13, 2020, 04:22:24 AM
G’day! I can’t remember exactly when I discovered fantasy as such, but I was reading Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree and Wishing Chair books, as well as Tove Jannson’s Moomin books when I was 6 or 7 and that lead me into things like The Hobbit. I write, although I don’t think I’ll ever be published, and I read a lot. Hope you enjoy your time here. We”re a pretty friendly bunch.

With the (hopefully obvious) exception of the hobbit I hadn't heard of those.  I think when I was that age I was reading the Ramona books, and a set of books by an author named John Bellairs
It may be my age, but when I was pre teens there wasn't a whole lot of fantasy around. My mother bought me Finn Family Moomintroll and that kind of hooked me. They're a bit deal in the author's native Finland, and no, I'm not Finnish. There's a sort of whimsy about them, especially the earlier books in the series. I also got into T. H. White's The Once and Future King at a fairly tender age.
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I will expand your TBR pile.

http://purpledovehouse.blogspot.com
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