Hi Louise and all

I read Destiny a few months back after I picked it up from the Writers Convention in Sydney. Can't wait for the next one!

I got this link from Traci's message board and I have to say that it looks great! I'm hoping to pop in here on a regular basis as well.

Seems like there's a few aspiring writers here too, which is good! I'd like to have a book written myself one day, but at the moment it's just ideas and notes, but nothing actually written. I think I need to get the idea floating around in my head for awhile first so I can see it all before I write about it.

Anyways hoping to share some ideas and meet some new and interesting people

Cheers, Fiona

Hi and welcome Fiona. You're right, there are quite a few aspiring authors in here and we've been discussing some interesting stuff. Glad to hear you're letting your ideas 'percolate' for a while. If that feels right then it's the best way for you. I certainly do that myself, however there have been the odd times when a story has just come to me (usually a short story) and it's all flowed out immediately as I'm typing it. Deb, and I think Helen or Timna have said the same thing happens to them. So I guess it depends on the story and how 'it' wants to come out. Writing is such an exciting voyage of discovery and no two writers seem to do it exactly the same way. I'm loving this forum and being able to compare how we all write. You never know when someone else's way might be useful. And I do like to try new things (when I'm not on a deadline!)

I love all this sharing. It is great to know there are people out there that are just as passionate about their writing as I am. Also it is comforting to know that some people feel a little apprehensive about their technique and talents. I know I do.
I have ideas written down and often come back months later and re-read them all and some of the ideas, though thought of at different times meld together perfectly to make a new story I had not thought of before.

I love the way these things can surprise us, forging links where you couldn't have imagined one. Tess Williams (another great Aussie author) was recently saying she'd just had an inspiration for linking her first novel "Map of Power" with her second "Sea as Mirror" and if there were two books I could NOT imagine being able to be linked, it would be those. I loved them both and am so looking forward to seeing how she does it.