I'm May, I'm in my early thirties and I live in the south-east UK, near(ish) London. Most of my career has been in editing/publishing, mainly academic books and journals, but I'm currently doing something a bit different - copywriting for a charity. I've been doing that for over a year now but am still in the process of working out if I prefer it to what I was doing before!
However, my big passion in life is fiction writing, and although it's a bit of a pipe dream, I would love to be a published author someday. I started out (at the tender age of twelve or thirteen) writing terrible fanfiction, then wrote bits and bobs of original fiction and worldbuilt for many years. It's only in the last year or so that I've got really serious about it – that's hitting your thirties for you! – and am currently finishing up my first proper novel draft, which currently stands at (*checks draft*) 127,866 words and will probably end somewhere around 150k.
As for forum roleplaying, I've been involved in it on and off since the 2000s (anyone remember ezboard and InvisionFree??). I owned a Harry Potter board and an original high school board way, way back in the day.
But it's been a good long while since I regularly posted somewhere, so like some others have said, I'm likely to be a bit rusty!As for other stuff, I'm a huge fantasy and scifi fan. I love to read – mainly fantasy but also scifi, horror, crime, young adult and occasionally other things that take my fancy. My favourite authors include China Miéville, Ursula Le Guin, Tolkien, Rowling, Donna Tartt, Tana French and the author of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. I also, like others here it seems, love to game, but only PC gaming (my husband's the console gamer
). I grew up playing Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights, so have a real fondness for isometric fantasy RPGs and D&D. I've never played D&D myself, but I do have a slight obsession with Critical Role...Wow, I wrote a lot! Better leave it there for now. It's lovely to meet you all and I really look forward to writing with you and creating some awesome stories.
