Would enjoy making the aquaintence of anyone else in this Assembly Hall. I enjoy a great many diversions and currently have emersed myself in writing my own continuation of Pride and Prejudice. I can not get enough to read and I believe that I have aquired most of the current continuations on the market. Most are good reads a few made me mad and a very special handful have been my companions which I re-read with great zeal every other week it seems. I can not listen to a song on the radio where I don't think upon a situation I wish to add into my novel. This all started for me when I watched the 2005 Widescreen release in August 2006. My husband was traveling a great deal for a month and I watched it every night and I mean every night. I cried for Darcy and his pain I just fell in love. I am ashamed to admit that I am not a great reader by any far stretch of the imagination but this so inspired me that I purchases the novel that was to match the movie. I loved it and purchased 5 more books immediatley which I read with great zest. Stunning myself completely for reading more in a month than I had in my 38 years at that time. Soon I began to write my own story (23 chapters and quite proud of myself for it) I continued to read more sequals as they became avaiable and then started on a different angle creating a new novel now up to 18 chapters. I have taken up a journal where all my thoughts and storylines are kept. I scribble down timelines, family trees, odd and end tidbits, whom marries whom and the names of their children. It is quiet become an obession. I have started to look around a online publishing just wanting the information as to how the entire process works. A question I would hold to anyone else out their is AM I THE ONLY ONE DOING THESE THINGS? IS IT NORMAL AS A NEW AUSTEN ADMIROR TO COMPLETELY EMERSE THEMSELVES INTO THESE CHARACTERS AND THEIR LIVES? DOes anyone have any stories to share about experices in writing, publishing or just enjoying all that others have put to paper. I am excited to be here and hope to speak with anyone willing to speak to me.