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WRITERS' VILLAGE IS PROUD TO INTRODUCE
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Helen Rossiter Canada
helen@wvu.org
Having lived a somewhat nomadic life, growing up in Kenya, East Africa, then venting my late teen angst in London, England and having only a slightly more settled early adult life in New Zealand, I finally call Canada 'home'. After an inclement marriage, three wonderful children and a rather intense divorce, I now live in Ottawa, a place I am happy to call home. I don't intend to move again until they cart me off to the "Funeral Home and Transfer Service" down the road some time in the distant future.
Weary of the daily routine of writing factual articles under someone else's name, and with the purchase of a speedier home computer early in 2000, I idled away a weekend surfing the net for fiction writing courses. And what I found was F2K, which proved to be the most fortuitous site that ever came across my computer screen. It didn't do much to help me with my love of run-on sentences, but that's another story.
I have been writing fiction since I was seven, when I announced to my mother that when I grew up, I was going to "be an author and live in an authorage". My first story was published when I was nine, but no one told me until I was 19, afraid that if they divulged such fame to me at an early age, it would go to my head. Those of you who know me may agree that it was a wise decision on the part of my parents and teachers.
My writing attempts have been somewhat predictable to me. I am carried away enthusiastically by what I consider a brilliant start that fades quickly to mediocre by the middle and disappears into oblivion before coming to an end, which is probably why further publishing success has eluded me. Now, thanks to the friendship and support of other writers at WVU, some wonderful courses, an energetic study group and the beginning of some sort of self-discipline, the endings are happening at last!
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