Noticing Newbies

Hi,

I'm a newbie. Technically, this is my second post, because I went and answered some other topic.

I am getting back into creative writing (versus business writing, which I do alright at) after a 20 year break.

I can crank out about 800-1000 words an hours, not just by mashing keys that seem to form a coherent sentence like this one. I can also do this mostly on demand, writer's block is not a thing that exists for me. The harder part is getting time when I'm not working to do so.

I always work from an outline, something I mastered in college, which has served be well for many a whitepaper or business proposal. I find it is pretty easy to crank out paragraphs for each bullet, which is why I tend to write so fast and not get writer's block.

I know how to spell and know the difference between they're, their and there but like all humans I make typos and still put the wrong one of those 3 in at times which don't get caught during the editing. :)

I have been thinking about a setting and set of story ideas that might make a decent set of novels or short stories. So to ease into it, I am writing a short story first, to see how that goes. If it is readable, and I actually finish it, then I might be capable of doing the larger project of a novel, No sense getting ahead of myself.

Thus far, I've put in about 10 hours over 4 days and cranked out about 10,000 words that my wife liked. Which as a metric, merely means that it wasn't riddled with terrible grammar, and wasn't unreadable and had a plot that she didn't hate. I'm sure my work will have room for improvement, but I know I've read worse (as in really bad unreadable stuff).

This site looks like it has a lot of neat tools, like for posting your work and reviewing others. I do have to say, the forum software is terrible by modern standards. I am used to web forums powered by or like vBulletin (which was around back in 2000), which show threads as a continuous readable form, rather than the single post at a time with a reply tree below format from the 19990's. I don't mean to be cruel about it, but my day job is web application development. I notice these things and lived through the evolution of design.

Anyway, thanks for supplying this useful site (despite my opinion on the forum software). Here's hoping I have time to finish my short story before the 31 day newbie review timer runs out so I can post it and get it reviewed.