Post by covewriter on Sept 24, 2008 12:14:10 GMT -5
Hello, I am covewriter because it is simple: I live in Cove, and am writer. My real name is Jessie. I am 18 and since the age of 4, have been very much obsessed with gothic literature.
I would in no way call myself an expert, but I can say I have read the majority of the canon and have a fixation and fascination for the characteristics and soul of a gothic novel.
Phantom of the Opera is, perhaps, my favorite novel. Wuthering Heights the second. Romanticism, Dark Romanticism, and Gothic literature have been a subject I have studied fairly thoroughly. Byron, Shelley, and Keats were who I grew up with, having read every work and uncompleted scrap. I have read countless biographies and adored them for years. I would consider all (but Keats really) to have dipped into Dark Romanticism, a heavy flirtation with Goth, to say the least.
This is supposed to be an introduction of myself, so I would say that I found this forum on NaNoWriMo and literally jumped up and down. I was a bit disappointed at the turnout at first, but I was thrilled as more people joined, and to see the...I guess humble could be the word, presentation of previous knowledge. I come with the same, for years I have loved it but am no expert by far.
The first (and only) novel I ever completed was a true-to-form gothic (mildly unintentional) and I have not been able to write for some time. I even trashed my manuscript. I have not been able to write for years. I still consider myself a writer and had hoped to dive right in, but I am having slight difficulties. I know that I must write this novel again. I am haunted by it and need to make it something I keep, something that is written...
I am really looking forward to participating in GothNoWriMo. Even though, for the month of October, the love of my life will be gone for some stinkin' Army training -- he is a pilot and has to do some pre-Iraq training -- I am really looking forward to it.
Plus, I write better with misery. Maybe I have been so happy these past few years in such an immense and overpowering way I can't muster the courage to write?
Oh well. I plan to put it all behind me.
Just wanted to introduce myself, which I may have overdone, but that is that.
I would in no way call myself an expert, but I can say I have read the majority of the canon and have a fixation and fascination for the characteristics and soul of a gothic novel.
Phantom of the Opera is, perhaps, my favorite novel. Wuthering Heights the second. Romanticism, Dark Romanticism, and Gothic literature have been a subject I have studied fairly thoroughly. Byron, Shelley, and Keats were who I grew up with, having read every work and uncompleted scrap. I have read countless biographies and adored them for years. I would consider all (but Keats really) to have dipped into Dark Romanticism, a heavy flirtation with Goth, to say the least.
This is supposed to be an introduction of myself, so I would say that I found this forum on NaNoWriMo and literally jumped up and down. I was a bit disappointed at the turnout at first, but I was thrilled as more people joined, and to see the...I guess humble could be the word, presentation of previous knowledge. I come with the same, for years I have loved it but am no expert by far.
The first (and only) novel I ever completed was a true-to-form gothic (mildly unintentional) and I have not been able to write for some time. I even trashed my manuscript. I have not been able to write for years. I still consider myself a writer and had hoped to dive right in, but I am having slight difficulties. I know that I must write this novel again. I am haunted by it and need to make it something I keep, something that is written...
I am really looking forward to participating in GothNoWriMo. Even though, for the month of October, the love of my life will be gone for some stinkin' Army training -- he is a pilot and has to do some pre-Iraq training -- I am really looking forward to it.
Plus, I write better with misery. Maybe I have been so happy these past few years in such an immense and overpowering way I can't muster the courage to write?
Oh well. I plan to put it all behind me.
Just wanted to introduce myself, which I may have overdone, but that is that.