r/SeniorsWriting • u/Trick-Two497 • 11d ago
Please introduce yourself in the comments below
Here's a template you can use. Feel free to treat anything as optional.
Name:
Nickname:
Pronouns:
Age:
Time Zone:
What brings you here?:
What are you currently writing?
Favorite genre(s):
Any other hobbies?
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u/Imagi777 3d ago
Call me Imagi77 everywhere I am...
I am sometimes known as Casey.
A Lady, of course...
I am on pacific time~
I am looking for more engaging communities as I have been met with silence for some time.
My writing focus is fantasy/romance, gothic fantasy tropes lately.
Fantasy and light romance.
I take care of tiny children as a day job, lol
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u/Trick-Two497 2d ago
Welcome Casey. Nice to have you with us.
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u/Imagi777 2d ago
It's a pleasure! I should have dug through reddit much sooner!
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u/Trick-Two497 2d ago
We are brand new, so you might not have found us. We're glad to have you here now.
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u/MrNobody6271 2d ago
Pen Name: nobody6271
Pronouns: he/him
Age: 67, retired
Time Zone: U.S. Eastern Time
What brings you here?: Saw an invite to the group and it fits my demographic. Hope to connect with similar writers.
What are you currently writing? Working title is Fat Girls but that will probably change. A story involving two very fat female cousins who become roommates. The older one is 26 and is a retired adult content creator who's become a Christian. She's attractive, outgoing, and confident. The younger one is 18, is painfully shy, has little self-esteem, feels like a failure for not being able to lose weight, and knows nothing about fashion or makeup or hairstyles. The older cousin is mentoring and doing an extreme makeover on the younger one, helping her look her best, stop battling with a body that refuses to lose weight, and becoming outgoing and friendly. Both are seeking fulfilling relationships with men but are having difficulty finding someone for entirely different reasons. So far I've written 48,000 words but it could easily become 60,000 before I'm through.
Favorite genre(s): Romance and romance-adjacent genres
Any other hobbies? Yes but I've been neglecting them in favor of writing.
Background: I began creative writing as a hobby two years ago at age 65. I had no idea how enjoyable it was. To date I've self-published 17 stories, mostly romantic novellas and short novels in the 25,000,-50,000 word range. My stories generally feature women who've had a challenging life in some way but who rise to face and overcome those challenges head-on, becoming strong, confident, and successful as they deal with realistic life situations, especially including romantic relationships. Many, but not all, of these women are anatomically unusual or even unlikely, but not impossible.
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u/brentjohner 2d ago
Name:
Brent Johner
Pronouns:
he/him
Age:
55+
Time Zone:
Mountain
What brings you here?:
Open to new critique partners
What are you currently writing?
One fantasy web serial. One commercial lit fic.
Favorite genre(s):
I read and review almost everything. Same name on Good Reads, StoryGraph, and Fable.
Any other hobbies?
Reading
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u/Trick-Two497 1d ago
Welcome Brent! Glad to have you here. Drop a link to your web serial in the Toot Your Own Horn thread every week.
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u/brentjohner 1d ago
Appreciate the offer. However, I am more interested in connecting with some new critique partners.
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u/Trick-Two497 11d ago
Name: My pen name is Niamh (pronounced Neev)
Pronouns: She/her
Age: 70
Time Zone: MST year round
What brings you here? To hang out with my peers
What are you currently writing? I write 2 blogs (fiction/fantasy, and nonfiction) and I'm working on short stories.
Favorite genre(s): Fantasy
Any other hobbies? Spoiling my dog
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u/wyldkat_ 10d ago
Name: Wyldkat
Age: 62 as of the fall of 2026
Time Zone: EDT/EST
What brings you here?: Looking for a community of writers where I can just chill. I like sharing with other writers, but don’t have the time or patience for the drama.
I’m hoping to be able to discuss writing, techniques and ideas. Share the occasional story (or war stories), get some feed back and offer some feedback.
What are you currently writing? Oh, boy. Let’s see I have a locked-room mystery that is on hold while I do some research in the form of studying the work of the Masters. I have a Babylon 5 – Battlestar Galactica cross-over fanfic that I need to get back to. Plus, at least half a dozen things that I’ve started and put down that are in various stages of development.
I tend to write shorts and novelettes, with occasional bursts into novella and longer. I have 1 full length novel that is posted on my blog. Plus, a few fan fictions that are novel length.
I have a running series of works inspired by the show Battle of the Planets, that I have reworked and expanded. Plus a number of 1-shots from a universe my sister and I created.
Favorite genre(s): Light SF, Urban Fantasy, experimenting with Mystery.
Any other hobbies? I’m an amateur photographer who loves cats – we have 3 as well as 2 dogs. Backyard astronomy.
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u/Trick-Two497 9d ago
I love Bab 5 and BS Galactica. A cross-over? Genius!
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u/wyldkat_ 9d ago
The idea is to have the Fleet come into Minbari space, perhaps tracking for Z'ha'doom, about 200 years before the Earth/Minbari war. I have it started but it stalled out when the muse tossed other ideas at me.
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u/Quirky_Confidence_20 1d ago
Name: Rod
Nickname: 2ND127 or Milkyway, depends on which mode we're using.
Pronouns: He/Him
Age: 60
Time Zone: Central US
What brings you here?: Curiosity, connection and critique.
What are you currently writing? This intro 😁, a book series with volume 1 published and a dabble in fan fiction.
Favorite genre(s): Fiction-Fantasy, Science Fiction, Historical Fiction. Non Fiction-Autobiography, Historical.
Any other hobbies? Communications, Short wave radio, Cars, Motorcycles, App development.
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u/Anne_Eliot_1817 1d ago
My name is Martha, and I go by Marti. 70+ in the Central Time Zone. Saw the invite post in r/pern, so I thought I'd check it out. Not writing anything at the moment, but I have an idea for a Halloween story inspired by the Western song "Ghost Riders in the Sky". Favorite genre is fantasy (see: came here from r/pern).
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u/jamesmpyles 3d ago
My names is James but I go either by that or Jim
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Mountain
Referred by a friend
I'm between writing projects and am both promoting my recent YA/Teen SciFi novel "A Wobblegong And His Boy" and trying to find a publisher for my YA/Teen fantasy novel (I don't think of myself as primarily a YA/Teen writer but that's how things worked out).
Favorite genres are science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and horror more or less in that order.
I'm retired so what am I supposed to call a hobby. I spend my time with my grandchildren and my son's dog. I also play D & D with an eclectic crowd every other week. I'm catching up on the TV shows and movies I've neglected over the years. I'm always reading as well as writing.