Hi Everyone!
-
Sarah Fisher_LP
- In It Together VIP
- Posts: 19
- Joined: 29 Jul 2023, 20:23
- Currently Reading:
- Bookshelf Size: 0
Hi Everyone!
I'm Sarah, sometimes known as linux.poet in other places. I have 4 published poems to my name, with more on the way there.
I haven't actually published a book yet, despite my collection of novel drafts collecting dust from my earlier years. I've honestly been intimidated by all of the options and rip-off artists since I was 14. Now I'm 31 and I have an English B.A. degree, and I STILL haven't sorted out this professional jungle. Needless to say, I'm looking to produce quality work and I'm looking for maximum profit. So if you see "professional" terminology in my posts like "developmental editing", well yeah. What knowledge I have gained from my degrees I am happy to share and put into my reviews. Hopefully it is welcome.
In addition to my English B.A., I also have a Web Design A.S. and some experience with print designing for literary journals. I'm willing to take on work, do promotions, and cut costs - whatever it takes to be a success. I'll break out the programming and the InDesign and the Buffer to schedule Tweets if I can get behind the project.
I think giving me some time to get settled in would be helpful, but I think I should read more ordinary books, not just books on Linux System Admin, Systematic Theology, and Christian marriage. Younger me would read anything that had text and wasn't nailed down (and a few things that were, aka signs in the USDA forest service visitor centers). Teenager me went through a healthy fantasy and sci-fi phase, but now I've largely returned to my childhood roots of reading car owners' manuals and Holocaust histories. Which is a long way of saying that I prefer nonfiction as a Boring Adult, mostly memoirs and histories. I also got invested in Literature during my extended college tour and so now I've acquired a cosmopolitan taste for stories from other cultures around the world. Still, some novel will force me out of my orbit every blue moon, like Shadow of the Conqueror by Shad M. Brooks. Any novel or memoir with some good moral lessons and deep philosophical underpinnings will inspire me to allow for intuitive elevation.
Oh wait, poems. I like Psalm 46, 107, 88, and William Bulter Yeat's "The Second Coming", the latter of which inspired the title for Things Fall Apart. by Chinua Achebe, which has the first line "Okonkwo's fame was based on solid personal achievements." Which is me - I rate myself by solid personal achievements.
And since Okonkwo is the villain, consider that a confession. I tend to like my own poems too, because they are based on my own life and they feel honest and authentic. I write memoir-type poetry. And there's Poetry 180 Billy Collins edited, which inspired me to take up the craft in the first place. Haven't read that book in a few years though, but the poem sent in a bottle one was an old favorite - I think it was #135.
Anyway, feel free to hit me up over PM to talk shop, but all you experienced authors and reviewers probably actually know more than nervous old me, so yeah.
I haven't actually published a book yet, despite my collection of novel drafts collecting dust from my earlier years. I've honestly been intimidated by all of the options and rip-off artists since I was 14. Now I'm 31 and I have an English B.A. degree, and I STILL haven't sorted out this professional jungle. Needless to say, I'm looking to produce quality work and I'm looking for maximum profit. So if you see "professional" terminology in my posts like "developmental editing", well yeah. What knowledge I have gained from my degrees I am happy to share and put into my reviews. Hopefully it is welcome.
In addition to my English B.A., I also have a Web Design A.S. and some experience with print designing for literary journals. I'm willing to take on work, do promotions, and cut costs - whatever it takes to be a success. I'll break out the programming and the InDesign and the Buffer to schedule Tweets if I can get behind the project.
I think giving me some time to get settled in would be helpful, but I think I should read more ordinary books, not just books on Linux System Admin, Systematic Theology, and Christian marriage. Younger me would read anything that had text and wasn't nailed down (and a few things that were, aka signs in the USDA forest service visitor centers). Teenager me went through a healthy fantasy and sci-fi phase, but now I've largely returned to my childhood roots of reading car owners' manuals and Holocaust histories. Which is a long way of saying that I prefer nonfiction as a Boring Adult, mostly memoirs and histories. I also got invested in Literature during my extended college tour and so now I've acquired a cosmopolitan taste for stories from other cultures around the world. Still, some novel will force me out of my orbit every blue moon, like Shadow of the Conqueror by Shad M. Brooks. Any novel or memoir with some good moral lessons and deep philosophical underpinnings will inspire me to allow for intuitive elevation.
Oh wait, poems. I like Psalm 46, 107, 88, and William Bulter Yeat's "The Second Coming", the latter of which inspired the title for Things Fall Apart. by Chinua Achebe, which has the first line "Okonkwo's fame was based on solid personal achievements." Which is me - I rate myself by solid personal achievements.
And since Okonkwo is the villain, consider that a confession. I tend to like my own poems too, because they are based on my own life and they feel honest and authentic. I write memoir-type poetry. And there's Poetry 180 Billy Collins edited, which inspired me to take up the craft in the first place. Haven't read that book in a few years though, but the poem sent in a bottle one was an old favorite - I think it was #135. Anyway, feel free to hit me up over PM to talk shop, but all you experienced authors and reviewers probably actually know more than nervous old me, so yeah.
