[Welcome meme] Getting to know each other...

[sterling]

We're all relatively new to DW, and that means we're likely going to meet a lot of new people. But, where to start? How can we break the ice and get to know each other?

Perhaps a quick friending "meme" would be just the thing. Copy and paste the below as a reply to this thread, and let us know what kind of writer you are. Answers can be as vague or as specific as you'd like.

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<u><b>General</b></u> <b>- Name:</b> <b>- Age:</b> <b>- Location:</b> <u><b>Reading</b></u> <b>- Your favorite genre/s:</b> <b>- Your favorite author/s:</b> <b>- Your favorite book/s:</b> <b>- Your favorite character/s:</b> <b>- Least favorite book/s:</b> <b>- Least favorite characters:</b> <b>- Recommended reading:</b> <u><b>Writing</b></u> <b>- What do you write:</b> (ex: fiction, poems, songs, etc.) <b>- Your favorite genre/s to write:</b> <b>- Do you write fanfiction?</b> (if yes, what fandom?) <b>- Do you write original fiction?</b> <b>- Current project:</b> <b>- An area you'd like to improve in:</b> <b>- An accomplishment you're proud of:</b> <u><b>Other</b></u> <b>- Hobbies:</b> <b>- What's in your journal?</b> <b>- Why did you move to DW?</b> <b>- Favorite energy drink?</b> <b>- Anything else?</b>

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[nerakrose]

General

- Name: Karen
- Age: 21
- Location: Finland

Reading

- Your favorite genre/s: cyberpunk, young adult, literature classics, fantasy, archaeological fiction (if any such genre exists), historical fiction, children's literary classics, psychological thrillers, surrealistic, expressionistic, impressionistic,
- Your favorite author/s: many many... Enid Blyton, Dean Koontz, Neil Gaiman, Franz Kafka, Philip Pullman, Tolkien, Jean M. Auel, JK. Rowling, Jostein Gaarder, and many more whose names I don't remember
- Your favorite book/s: His Dark Materials, Earth's Children, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Christmas Mystery, Neuromancer, Seize The Night+its predecessor, etc.
- Your favorite character/s: I'm not sure. I like Pippin from LOTR a lot, although my all time favourite might have to be Kári from Fóstursonurinn, by Árni Ólafsson.
- Least favorite book/s: the vampire books by Anne Rice (save for Pandora). Can't say Twilight for I will not degrade myself to read those books.
- Least favorite characters: Lestat. His self-importance and blah blah blah plus Anne Rice's inability to shut up and get on with the plot made me so annoyed I didn't get further than chapter one.
- Recommended reading: His Dark Materials. I also recommend any and all Franz Kafka and Neil Gaiman's Stardust. I also recommend Dracula, not for the entire vampire thing but for the interesting views the book offers on the role of the female in a (then) contemporary society. If you're annoyed by Jonathan Harker, don't give up, he's not the only POV and won't stay for long.

Writing

- What do you write: I used to write poems, but I've stopped that now. Sometimes I write songs. Most of the time I write fiction; short stories and longer.
- Your favorite genre/s to write: I'm not aware of what genre I write... adult/young adult fiction, I assume.
- Do you write fanfiction? yes, in the finndom. (RPS) my OTP is Jack(Private Line)/Christus (ex-Negative). Most often abbreviated Japa/Kris. a photo of them together.
- Do you write original fiction? yes. :)
- Current project: Passion Colours Everything. It started out as fan-fiction but I don't think I'll keep it that way. Gay university professor who's deliberately shutting out the world ends up having a fling with a student. sounds more cheesy than it is. It's about character and psychological development.
- An area you'd like to improve in: Overall. I can't really think of an area I definitely know I need improvement in, but I'll take critique where it's given and work on it.
- An accomplishment you're proud of: when I finally finished That Kind of Dirty. It was 8 months in the making ~end result 23k words, 14 chapters. ♥

Other

- Hobbies: photography, reading books, writing, music, going to gigs, spend time with my friends, walk our dogs, play with the children, photoshop, web design, drawing, painting... many things.
- What's in your journal? Two entries. xD There's not a lot and at the moment I'm more or less synchronising it with my LJ.
- Why did you move to DW? I haven't. I'm not leaving LJ and I'm keeping DW alongside it.
- Favorite energy drink? I hatehatehate energy drinks.
- Anything else? I don't think so. Ask. :)