Hi everyone, I seem to have found this forum by accident while I was doing some research, but I'm very happy to have found it.
I'm actually a fantasy writer steadily working my way to being published, and while I've experimented with mapmaking I've never really delved into it. I want to learn how to create maps digitally so I'm not constantly hand drawing everything and making insane calculations in my head, and I decided here was as good a place as any to learn.
What else is there to say, hmm...I love writing and I love making maps for the worlds I dream up in my head. Maps make these places feel so real to me, and it never occurred to me to let anyone else design a map for me. A map is something special for me, and I feel like I'm putting my best foot forward in my world if I draw my own maps, so....yeah.