Date:         Thu, 5 Mar 1998 20:22:58 +0100
From: geli wischner <wischnerge@BLN.DE>
Subject:      FILL: BIO

Hi,
 my name is Geli.

After lurking for some two weeks,
after having eagerly followed one thread or the other,
  - mostly of FILL and Poem -
after laughing out loud,
after being touched by the beauty of words
and the freshness of ideas,
I guess it's high time to step out and tell you that I'm here too now!

It's been three months now that I have a net access, and when I found
out that something like writers' mailing lists exist at all, I got all
excited. One good thing is: I found this list. One bad thing is -for me-
it's in English. I write in German, that is, if I write. I've looked for
lists in German, but just didn't find the kind that I have found here.
 I have never published anything, but I have been on and off with
writing short fiction during the last ten years, things to get your
wrists warmed-up :-) There is a plan for a novel, some few pages
written. Right now there's another plan for an adventure story for kids.
I do not consider myself a kids' writer, but I'd like to finish that one
book this year. The idea came from my work with kids, well, I'm a
teacher of English as a foreign language. I have also done some
educational studies way back then, and a few years ago a German
adaptation of an American (if there is something like THE American CW)
creative writing course, so that I can call myself a creative writing
instructor, German style. (I'm not saying this is of minor quality, only
it seems that in the U.S. and/or Anglo-Saxon places there is much more
of a tradition in creative writing.)

So I probably won't be sending anything in, but would enjoy lingering
here. Can I? On the other hand, maybe one day I'll produce tiny bits in
English, because I love to play with words, no matter which language.
Oh, I'm 45, no kids.

Thanks a lot, Tink,
for the help that I found on the sites already and for your enjoyable
personal style as no-boss boss. Regards from the qwertz part of the
world!

Thanks a lot Susannah, for giving me the push that I needed to step out.

Thanks, writers.

Geli