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Old 09-27-2005, 02:03 PM   #1
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hello, new to the forums
Hi, I'm Rachel, I just registered on these forums today, after googling "literary discussion". Anyhow, about me, I'm 24, second year law student, part time legal assistant, wife, mother to a 2.5 year old girl and fiction writing ingenue. I'm currently working on a novel that I would guess will be categorized as "young adult" fiction. I would like to post excerpts soon for critique. I'm feeling challenged with the narrative tense I'm using, but have some apprehensions at changing the tense.

Anyhow, I'm also an avid reader, some of my favorite books are:

Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar, The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway, Underworld by Don DeLillo, and ANYTHING written by Haruki Murakami (wonderful short story in the most recent New Yorker magazine), also classics such as Crime and Punishment, Madame Bovary, anything Fitzgerald, Henry James, or James Joyce, (Although I've gotta say, FInnegan's Wake is some serious mindfuckage. my god!)

anyhow...glad to have stumbled around the internet and found this place.

cheers!
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Old 09-27-2005, 03:47 PM   #2
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Old 09-27-2005, 10:43 PM   #3
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Welcome Rachel--You sound an awful lot like my stepdaughter! Are you from Kentucky by any chance? Faergen
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Welcome Rachel--You sound an awful lot like my stepdaughter! Are you from Kentucky by any chance? Faergen
nope, Santa Fe, by way of Manhattan.
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Welcome to the forums! Hope you like it here as much as I do.
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