Looking for local writing friends

Heya, would love to befriend you if that's okay.. I had a look at your profile and you're doing what I wanted to study at QUT.. nice :D Well hope it's okay to be a new friend ;-) I'm kind of north brisbane and hope I'm not too far away to be you're friend :P

Hi there!

I run a Creative Writing Group every month in the CBD - lots of writing-type people come along to that! Why don't you come along and join us? We often head out for dinner somewhere afterwards, for more socialising.

Next meeting is on Friday 13th Nov - it's on the calendar. :)

~Mel
ML for Brisbane, Australia
Captain of the Purple Ninja Nightowls (of Death)

2007 - Queen of Diamonds
2008 - Shuriken
2009 - The Apocalypse Blog - the final installment

Hey, I second the above. :) I had no writing friends a year ago, but through Nano and Creative Writing Group, I have heaps. And it's RAD. Writers are the best. Plus, writing group is great.

Sure thing! Everyone's welcome! It's one nice big happy group. Group hug! Come on! Do it! DO IT! *waves a knife around* lol...

Princesskt: I'm on the extreme northside (out near strathpine) so that's cool. North side, represent, yo. *Shoots self... with the knife.* Seriously though... are you a QUT'er too?

Kess: fyi, I'm into fantasy mainly, though I read sci fi too (just starting to get into it; recently finished the first sci fi series I've read since Animorphs). I don't know if that group's general or genre... but I think I know the group you're talking about. American Books? (or something to that effect) I'm in the Vision Writer's Group (we do speculative fiction stuff and go for lunch afterwards... oh man, I REALLY need to submit something, it's been a long while) so I don't know if that city one will really benefit me as such, plus I'm already on a few forums, which is kind of redundant... but I could at least go along and see how I go with meeting people etc).

Ooh, Friday 13? Scary! :p

I know you more from Riverside than anything else. You do the apocalypse blog, don't you? Also I think I know what you look like... vaguely... between the Pancake Manor and the KOP, albeit briefly (I got there just as it ended... curse my stupidity for not setting my alarm and for drinking moderately the night before). I'll probably know you when I see you next.

Ellaluna: Cool, we're the same age! I used to work in government too. Good profile. I'm sarcastic and irritable too... mostly just irritable though.

Jordan: Hi! It was cool to finally meet you at the KOP :)

You and I go way back. We roll in the same circles and have been friends on FB for months now.
Your friends and my friends are the same people! Hehehehe. Hope to see you come along to a write in soon.

I think that I saw that you were going to the BSFF meet up tomorrow so maybe next weekend...
Take care.

Whip cracking ML - Defender of the 50K mark...

You can email me... yes you!!!!
My email is: jordan.lee@live.com.au

I don't promise to reply but I will promise to at least read it before I delete it... ;p

Quicksilver_Wolf- Wow Strathpine? That's closer then I thought! I'm at Caboolture ;-) I'm studying at Griffith and was intending on transferring to QUT next year but I'm actually enjoying the course so I thought I'd finish it and who knows.. maybe do the other degree later on? Surely can't hurt ;-)

Yes, the Creative Writing Group is at the American Bookstore. :) We have a lot of genre writers in the group - scifi and fantasy feature pretty highly. You certainly won't be in the minority in that!

And yes, I do the Apocalypse Blog. :) Wheeefun.

Hope to see you soon, at the group or a write-in!

~Mel
ML for Brisbane, Australia
Captain of the Purple Ninja Nightowls (of Death)

2007 - Queen of Diamonds
2008 - Shuriken
2009 - The Apocalypse Blog - the final installment

Jordan: Yep, we sure do :) BSFF buddies for the win! Granted, some are closer friends than others. Melinda and Syam are closer than John and Rachael, for example. I went to the meet today, but I was feeling like shit - should have just stayed home honestly. It started with only 4 hours sleep and a hangover and it didn't get much better. Haven't gotten a word down either. I've been in one of those terrible moods today. Oh well. The write-in sounds promising. Tomorrow should be better than today, at any rate.

Princess: Caboolture, represent! :p I met my best, worst and craziest friends there. Interesting cross-section really. Two single mothers - one an english/history teaching student, one I'm assuming music; one smart, one... less so lol - and the WISEST bastard of a guy out there. He's like the wise old mentor in fantasy novels... only he's got cancer, a journalism backgroound, a smoking addiction and a potty mouth. Interesting character, Pete. If I decide to have such a character role, I'd probably write them like him.

Kess: Woot! I'll give it a go, then. Vision works best for me, though. That's all. I'm up to Jan 14 or thereabouts on Apocalypse Blog.

Quicksilver_Wolf - I'm actually in Strathpine :) I'm writing YA though and doing it while writing report cards (must write the right thing in the right place) so I'm a bit stretched for time.

Cool! Gloria Jeans addict?

So, the end of my time at the write-in was rather uncanny - Jordan and Kess I already know from prior write-ins and in the case of the former, the KOP and facebook, but the real funny part was when I asked a certain girl what her username was... and it was ellaluna! I was talking to you all along... how crazy is that? :p Of course now that I check your profile picture again, I can see how similar you looked in real life.

PS: Ellaluna, I like high fantasy too. More the epic quest variety though. Not sure if those count as one-and-the-same, or two distinct sub-types... will have to look into that.

It's true, I do in fact resemble my picture... bahahaha. Anyway, I totally knew who you were for the whole write-in, and I just didn't help you out at all. Because that's the kind of person I am.

I am not that into quest fantasy. All that talk about riding around and eating crap food gets boring after a while. I prefer fantasy that focuses more on the politics and society of fantasy worlds, where there is little or no presence of prophecy, magic, or orcs and elves. Although, sometimes I do love a good Quest Against Ultimate Evil.

-Suz

Ah, I see. Did you actually read my nametag and see my user name? Or did you not, and you're just psychic or something? Or have ninja spies?

Hmm. I do get a bit tired of stories where all they do is ride for 500 pages then eat crap food then ride for another 400 then lo and behold, they defeat the evil badness. That said, when Terry Brooks does stuff best described as 'riding to unknown lands and eating crap food along the way', he does do it really well. But he does everything well. And R.A. Salvatore's Demon Wars trillogy (and Homeland/Exile/Soujourn... and also The Silent Blade, and Servant of the Shard) is nothing short of awesome in every way. Which reminds me, I need to buy that... but fighting and sinister plots and demons and weird magic are right up my alley.

PS: I thought High and Epic fantasy were more or less the same thing. I've learned something new.

PPS: msn handle is silentdan2017@gmail.com. For facebook though, I use dpfergus@hotmail.com.