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Greetings, fellow writers who have persisted through all of the obstacles needed to join yonder forum! You can make a forum using WordPress? This is amazing! *looks around with interest*

Sorry, wrong forum.

Hi, I’m that person who always seems to be out of context for anything and everything and constantly has to explain myself using ridiculously long paragraphs. I also have this habit of choosing long names, so you were warned in advance – this one was based on me thinking about Lindsey Stirling and thinking about the role her violin plays in her art, and how she has bravely forged ahead with her eccentric career idea that has made her extremely successful. I identify with that idea, but before I get any more long-winded, let me tell you that some people around here yonderabouts might know me by Sierepica_Fuzzywalker of the Aetherlight forums, which is how I found this place. If the name is too long (which it is), you may call me Sarah.

Other than that, my writing and my relationship with God has taken me on a remarkable adventure of its own already. I started my writing when I was in 6th grade (shortly after I came to Christ) and I finished my first fantasy novel draft in 8th grade with the strong intention of publishing it (I was looking for emancipation from my parents at the time, and thought that publication would allow me to do that). All I found were scam artists – it was my junior year of high school before I found out how to find a real agent, and by that point my novel was in a shambles from multiple revisions as I strove to make it better.

Around that time, I also tried other writing posting/forum websites: Booksie, inkpop (which is how I found out how to find an agent) and authonomy (which I quit out of guilt over lying about my age). This led to the writing of several other novels and some shorter works, but none of which got published in any real capacity. I took an advanced track in high school with a lot of work in hopes of having a short college career, and this took up most of my time. Not only that, but I was developing this sinking feeling that my writing didn’t have any meaning anymore.

In college, I planned to double major in computer science and creative writing, because I seemed to have expertise in both. My first semester in college threw me into depression, which contributed, among other catastrophic events, to me leaving university (I didn’t technically flunk out because of an illness excuse, but my dad wouldn’t pay for it anymore – he blamed me for everything. His unforgiveness still is a thing in my life, though it gets less intense every day.).

This led to years of emotional and physical abuse at the hands of my father that continues to this day, though it is fading in intensity as I refuse to back down. I went back to community college to take web design classes because I thought that would help me make money off of my writing – I wasn’t wrong about that – but when I set out to combine my writing skill with my technical expertise, I found that my writing was lacking. This led me to cut some terrible, not-God-honoring relationships out of my life and to fight my parents to go back to creative writing school. I have won this battle as well, and I’m now on the staff of my community college’s student literary magazine.

At the same time, I have used extensive scriptural applications in order to fight against my feelings of worthlessness, depression, abuse, and now my fear of my past cutting me out of the exciting opportunities God has for me. Going into detail on this is too long for a post like this, but I’ve actually written a non-fiction book manuscript on this (I’m a writer…what else do you do?).

In time, I have come to realize the best things to convey in writing for meaning are the Gospel, Scriptural truth, and genuine consideration for other people and who God made them to be. Speak the truth in love, and all else will follow. My foremost goal is making my writing clear in meaning and gentle in handling the emotional disturbance that truth brings.

Also, I could probably use some work on brevity. 😛 See everyone around. 🙂