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Hey, I'm Chiara and I've joined FINALLY despite this being my last semester of uni EVER.

I'm studying Professional and Creative Writing because, well, writing is amazing. I read all kinds of authors, though fantasy and sci-fi books tend to be the ones that keep transfixed for days at a time.

No kidding. I read Lord of the Rings in 3 days, and had a whopping headache at the end as punishment for depriving my body of sleep.

At the moment I'm writing a young adult fantasy novel, trying to be the next JK Rowling BUT DIFFERENT. Hopefully even better–I'm allowed to hope, aren't I? Where would the world be if no-one had dreams?

Anyone else want to confess to writing a novel atm?

Hey Chiara,

Welcome aboard. I read LotR in three days too when I was about 12... I pretended that I had a cold just so I could stay home and read it instead of going to school. Although it took me about a month to read the first 50 pages, all blah-blah-wonk-wonk big funny names and old battles.

I was halfway through my third novel before uni got in the way, but because they are chapter books for children it feels like cheating to call them 'novels'. The first one is only 4,500 words (currently sitting in the slush pile at Penguin *crosses fingers & toes*), the second is about 12,000 and the third will be about 20 - 25,000. I've tried writing two other 'adult' mss, but both died at around the 25,000 word mark. One is buried, but I might rewrite the other for a younger audience.

Holmesglen TAFE have some awesome Novel classes, so it might be a good idea to check them out for next year? Heaps of people work and just do one or two writing classes at Holmesglen a week. I still go there Monday nights for the Short Story II class, because the guy running it really knows his stuff.

Hey Chiara,

Welcome to DeScribe ^^, I once tried to read LotR it droned out too long for me, it just didn't hook me in fast enough, but I absolutely loved the movies (yeah I cheated).

I'm trying to write a young adult fantasy novel as well *high five* ^^, but I seem to be making more excuses not to write it, just too scared to stuff it up *sigh*

Good Luck with your writing^^
Thiv