Introduce Yourself

I just wanted to say welcome to all who enter Lunaland!

So as you can tell i'm new to this and don't know how to do much on here. I love romance books. I also Love to read about vampires

Welcome to eHarlequin! It is a pleasure to "meet" you. I'm sure that once you get used to moving around the boards that you will love it here. I have a couple of suggestions for you and I'm not going to give you links so that you can learn how to move around, LOL. Over in the Write Stuff Forum, you will find a couple of areas I think will interest you. There is one thread to help you with puncuation. It is called Comma.Chamelon. Also there is a thread called Writers Challenge. Every two weeks there is a new challenge where the writers are given a topic and they have to come up with a 1000 word entry. You can get feed back from the other people who participate and that would probably help your puncuation too. As for fantasy, check out Luna  Forum or in the Simply Series Form, you can find those who discuss and write Nocturnes. Oh, and I recommend you add threads you like to your favorites list so it will be easy to find again when you return. After the description of the area you are in there are either the "add Comment" button or the "add to Favorites" button, just click on it and it is added.

One more quick note, Thank You for being a war vet. I have family in the military and my DH (Dear Husband) used to be a Marine. I have family members in the Seneca Nation, a cousin married an Iriqoius (Man , I know I am spelling that wrong) woman. I'm from Western NY.  I am also a very bad speller (really hope they get the spell check button back quick) and punctuation isn't that better. eHarlequin just went through some big changes and all their techies are working on fixing things that didn't make the move.

Take care everyone!

More people should say thank you to our Vets.

Here is a link to that grammer practice thread.

http://community.eharlequin.com/forums/write-stuff/writing-exercises/grammar-exercises-comma-chameleon

I suggest reading the past posts. I know I have learned (and forgotten) a lot from the people over there and I go back to it for reference all the time.

Welcome back!

thank god for emoticons. can't seem to write a comment unless i add one first. Hey kim, i see that you have Iroquois relatives. me too. i married one. we also live in western ny but probably closer to the city. i am new to this site so am still learning my way around. i used to love writing although it was more poetry than stories. i am a teacher of 7th graders so have little time to fool around. i am a huge reader of epic proportions...best known as a bibliophile. cut my teen teeth on harliquin romances. thought about writing but don't know if i have what it takes. might be a fun career for retirement though.  so nice to see the comments. i love to talk about books, and loved doing my grad work online because we had to write to one another as it was all online courses. made some good friends, and really miss the discourse...still write to a couple of the gals, and we met in vegas after graduation. been so busy working that some days it feels as though life is going by in a blur...

looking forward to talking (and reading your comments again) real soon.

thanks ks...wasn't sure how fast a response i would get. my husband is Oneida. His family lives in Oneida on the territory. Our family name is chrisjohn. have you done the powwow trail? Both kev and I work full time now so shows are fewer and fewer each year. But we still do the family show at rhinebeck in october. Where is jamestown?

catch u soon

well it's another day here so am taking a few moments to check in and see if there has been any activity.

Hey KS thanks for sharing all of that. My husband's people are the people of the Standing Rock. I imagine that most of us from NY know where the Turning Stone casino is...we have't gone to many ceremonies either. Life seems to get in the way and it is a fairly long way to travel. We ususally go up to see family...I, myself am also of mixed ancestry. My dad's people are from Nebraska, the Santee Reservation. But I haven't been home in a very long time. And we recently found out that on my mom's side, what we thought was a French link was actually Abenaki. Our history is really wierd. We were originally from Europe (like most whites tht settled in the U.S.) But during the 1800's, during a raid on a small settlement in Minnesota, a baby boy was brought home to a Dakota woman who had lost her child in giving birth. His skin was darkened with walnut juice so he wouldn't be discovered and returned like most Indian captives. His name was Joseph RobinetteHe grew up and married an Indian woman, and that is how we can to be Dakota, and light skinned. On my mom's side, her father's people left New York to avoid the persecution towards any native people during the 1800's (see a pattern here?), and when they returned from Canada, they returned as French Davignons. I always thought my mom looked more Native than French but who was I? Anyway that is part of our story...the stories i might share about my mom's experience as one of the first people to live on the reservation after marrying my dad will have to wait until another day.

Someday I hope to write about all this but right now teaching and raising the last of our seven kids takes up most of our time.

hao, ona, and chao

catch you all later

saphire, that is one pretty puppy you have there. We went all the way to Indiana to get our youngest a beagle. Do you make any native crafts? i used to bead but time if very precious these days...

don't be lonely...in Luna land, one can never be truly alone. we are always surrounded by the presence of so many of our favorited creatures.

((KS)) rubies are my favorite...beautiful, deep, dark

She was spitting mad. It was eight o'clock, hotter than Hades, and the phone was still as quiet as a dormouse. Sonia had never done this before: made a committment to care for someone's pet, and then lost it. She was in so much trouble if someone didn't respond to the flyers she had posted. She was mostly angry with herself because she.....

I've never considered writing a book. My dh wants me to write a children's book so he can illustrate it. I suppose I could do that (someday). We have worked together on medical pamphlets though.

Great start to the story. I'm not sure if Sapph would want us to move this to the Silver Unicorn where more people might get involved. Sapph, what do you think? Should we move the party to the bar?

Hi everyone. My name is Michele and I live in Upstate, NY...

Huge, huge fan of Harlequin...My mom got me into them years ago.

I love the paranormal.......I trying my hand at writing one...I've been writing for as long as I can remember.

Thanks !! I'm kind of new at this kind of writing....And to be honest...I'm a little rusty!! LOL!!!

Looking forward to getting tips on how to be a better writer.

I’m new here. I just wanted to introduce myself although now I must confess I’m at a loss as to what to say. I came here to find other writers, kinda see how they’re doing. (I feel like I’m writing personals ad.; New [or not] writer seeking same [or not]. Supportive chats, talk about great books we’ve read…)

I’ve been writing since I was very young but have only recently gotten serious about it. Not freakazoid serious, just more dedicated to telling a story…and I wondered about the experiences of other newbies. Taking a class is out of the question right now as are clubs etc. b/c I have two small kiddies and a husband with wacko hours but I’m beginning to feel isolated in the middle of a big city. My only real time to write is late at night…although I squeeze in whatever I can, kinda like Twinkies eaten over the sink.

I particularly like the romantic fantasy or paranormal arena…gimme a guy with added ‘oompf’ any day! Anyhow, I’m still new at the whole Forum/Chat thing and will probably goof up so I’m apologizing in advance if I’m being a dork.

Ciao for now,

midnightwriter

Thanks so much for taking the time to greet me…and for advice on where I might look further. Some of your past posts were really helpful too. I’m sooo glad I came here; lots of good advice to be gleaned but my real fave …friendly people! :)

I’ll sure check out the Enchanted Scribe, sounds tres interesting…and I’ll be back here to see how ya’ll are doing; I’m not quite that new kid in school who trails after the first kid who talks to her, but almost. ;)

ciao 4 now

midnight

I hope you enjoy it here, Midnight! In the Creative Writing folder, which is where you'll actually find the Enchanted Scribe, there's also a litte round-robin story. You can exercise your Muse by adding a segment there. Technically, it is supposed to be a paragraph per submission, but things have been a litte slow, so feel free to add as much as you like per submission (up to the maximum capacity of a post)! Just wait at least 48 hours to see if someone else adds something before posting again.