Profiles are hard for me to write, as I have a great deal of difficulty talking about myself beyond the aspects you see of me within my stories. However, I will try, since I really ought to have something about myself on my profile. :)
I am a thirty-two year old mother of three young daughters, who has spent the majority of her life writing. This tumultuous path began at a very young age as an escape from a dangerous and ugly world around me.
To expound on that final statement, without going into too much detail, I basically fell into the art of writing to withdraw from my disturbing circumstances involving bodily harm. Along that same premise, I found myself drawn to books of all types. I would read anything with pages, wheth…
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Profiles are hard for me to write, as I have a great deal of difficulty talking about myself beyond the aspects you see of me within my stories. However, I will try, since I really ought to have something about myself on my profile. :)
I am a thirty-two year old mother of three young daughters, who has spent the majority of her life writing. This tumultuous path began at a very young age as an escape from a dangerous and ugly world around me.
To expound on that final statement, without going into too much detail, I basically fell into the art of writing to withdraw from my disturbing circumstances involving bodily harm. Along that same premise, I found myself drawn to books of all types. I would read anything with pages, whether at the time I understood what I was reading or not. To me, it didn’t matter. It was another world; a world I could leap into when my own was overwhelming me.
In turn, the furious ingestion of books gave me both the vocabulary and skills to begin to put my own words to paper – to create my own realities. I have been doing just that ever since, to one degree or another. I prefer novel writing to all other formats (despite the fact that I may pop out a poem or short tale now and again), and though I may not ever become a great novelist, I hope that I will at least become a “decent” one. :)
Like most others on Urbis, I want to hone my skills further with the help of those who read and review my work. As well, I would like to see if by working within the community, my novels can be turned into marketable pieces of fiction with the possibility of future publication. With that in mind, I look forward to reading your reviews, and reviewing your writing in turn.
Aside from my desire to put words to paper, I am also a certified Domestic Violence Counselor, and have returned to college to complete my degree program in the areas of Psychology and Criminology.
Prior to resuming school, and becoming certified as a DVC, I was an editor for a publishing company. This part was initially missing in my profile, because I felt my editorial skills were something I could leave out. However, now that I have turned in a few reviews, I have to admit, it’s quite hard for me to break away from the line-by-line tear up that I used to perform. I always tried to use good judgment with authors while performing my editorial duties, spicing the criticism with praise and suggestions, and I hope to continue to do so with authors here on Urbis. Even so, doing editorial work can be quite a wordy, and unforgiving, profession. That being said, my reviews here will likely be a bit lengthy, but I will try to keep them as concise, and as positive, as possible. :)
I look forward to participating in, and enjoying, the Urbis community!
Take care!
Ari May…
P.S. Being an editor and a writer are two very different things. Where editors can see mistakes in another’s work, they usually can’t in their own. (At least not from my experience.) ;) – A.M.
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