Welcome… I’m New Here! New

[SaraW]

Hi, I'm just starting out with Litopia. I'm a fiction writer from San Francisco. Trying to figure out how everything here works!

 

[Josephine]

Welcome

 

[Vagabond Heart]

Hello Sara, and welcome.
Nice to have you with us.
You'll get welcome emails, and Jonny (one of the site's guardians) will be sending you a how-to-do-stuff thing, I expect.
So just have fun and mooch around the site.
xxxx VH

 

[AgentPete]

Hi @SaraW you're very welcome here. As @Vagabond Heart says, you'll be getting a series of explanatory emails, but do jump in, you can't break anything

 

[Hannah F]

Hi Sara, welcome. What do you write?

 

[Serra K]

Welcome!

 

[Peyton Stafford]

Welcome!

 

[RK Wallis]

Welcome aboard Lovely people here!

 

[SaraW]

Hi Sara, welcome. What do you write?

Thanks, Hannah! I've written a number of short stories that are mostly realistic but have a splash of magic/speculativeness about them. Am now a few chapters into a novel in the same vein, about three young women who get caught up with a sexually harassing professor.

 

[Hannah F]

Thanks, Hannah! I've written a number of short stories that are mostly realistic but have a splash of magic/speculativeness about them. Am now a few chapters into a novel in the same vein, about three young women who get caught up with a sexually harassing professor.

Ooh, I like magic realism. Have you read Liz Hyder's The Gifts ? It might be a good comparative title for you.

(October 1840. A young woman staggers alone through a forest in Shropshire as a huge pair of impossible wings rip themselves from her shoulders. Meanwhile, when rumours of a 'fallen angel' cause a frenzy across London, a surgeon desperate for fame and fortune finds himself in the grip of a dangerous obsession, one that will place the woman he seeks in the most terrible danger.)

 

[Jonny]

A very warm and belated (apologies) welcome to the colony, @SaraW

Nice to have you here. Hope you enjoy Litopia and do get involved as soon as you’re ready to.

This is a good place to check out (How-to guide) to see a lot of what goes on in the colony.

If anything is unclear do please contact me and I’ll be happy to assist if I can.

 

[SaraW]

A very warm and belated (apologies) welcome to the colony, @SaraW

Nice to have you here. Hope you enjoy Litopia and do get involved as soon as you’re ready to.

This is a good place to check out (How-to guide) to see a lot of what goes on in the colony.

If anything is unclear do please contact me and I’ll be happy to assist if I can.

Thanks so much!

 

[CarolMS]

Hi Sara! I'm kind of slow at catching up with saying hello to new members right now, but wanted to say Hi and touch bases with you because we seem to have a few things in common. I lived in San Francisco for more than 30 years, plus some years in Mill Valley, before moving to Portland Oregon, and now across the river in Vancouver WA (it's a lot cheaper living than Portland). I'm thinking of SF all the time these days because I'm working on a novel (now in its 8th--yes 8th--revision) mostly set in San Francisco during the late 60s, when I moved there. (Yup, I'm an old gal.) My novel has some similarity to the one you've started, I think, in that my main character is a young woman who is on a coming-of-age (though 21-22) journey to sexual awareness, and especially in those times, just after "the pill" came available, sexual harrassment was almost a lifestyle! A lot of what women have to deal with today had its birth, or certainly was much enhanced, by the the confused attitudes and upheaval in those times. All the rules about dating and relationships were turned upside down. Anyway, I just thought I'd connect and send send some warm fuzzies for your writing process your way. Cheers!

 

[SaraW]

Hi Sara! I'm kind of slow at catching up with saying hello to new members right now, but wanted to say Hi and touch bases with you because we seem to have a few things in common. I lived in San Francisco for more than 30 years, plus some years in Mill Valley, before moving to Portland Oregon, and now across the river in Vancouver WA (it's a lot cheaper living than Portland). I'm thinking of SF all the time these days because I'm working on a novel (now in its 8th--yes 8th--revision) mostly set in San Francisco during the late 60s, when I moved there. (Yup, I'm an old gal.) My novel has some similarity to the one you've started, I think, in that my main character is a young woman who is on a coming-of-age (though 21-22) journey to sexual awareness, and especially in those times, just after "the pill" came available, sexual harrassment was almost a lifestyle! A lot of what women have to deal with today had its birth, or certainly was much enhanced, by the the confused attitudes and upheaval in those times. All the rules about dating and relationships were turned upside down. Anyway, I just thought I'd connect and send send some warm fuzzies for your writing process your way. Cheers!

Hi Carol & thanks for the welcome! Your novel sounds fascinating. I don't know much about SF in the late 60s, but have this idea that the Summer of Love was an amazing time (I missed it, being just a toddler...).

 

[CarolMS]

Hi Carol & thanks for the welcome! Your novel sounds fascinating. I don't know much about SF in the late 60s, but have this idea that the Summer of Love was an amazing time (I missed it, being just a toddler...).

The Summer of Love was in 1967, when the hippy movement peaked. My book starts in '68 in Minneapolis, then is centered in San Francisco during 1969-1971. Though the movement evolved as young idealists and their belief in a collective spirit of well-being and love--"we" instead of "me, me, me"--were more and more replaced by sensation seekers more focused on themselves than others, the emphasis on consciousness change and philosophical exploration, particularly arising out of eastern spiritual traditions, lingered and gradualy permeated the culture as a whole, even beyond the Bay Area where it was so strong. A great deal of both social and political change that subsequently occurred was influenced by those transformative times. Unfortunately, there was a backlash, too, from those who didn't like the "we" emphasis and preferred values of power and money over caring for others and sharing the wealth. I think we're seeing that backlash peaking today. It makes me wish I was back in the late 60s or 70s. Those really were in many ways magical times.

I hope you are discovering some of the interesting corners and warm places to settle and share on the Litopia site. There is much to enjoy, and there are tons of good people in the community.

Happy New Year!