I find that the awesomeness of forums can often be represented by a bell curve with active members on the x-axis, when there are very few members it's boring but when you have lots and lots of members you get a lot of irritating chatspeaking idiots.
Anyway, I can see that your are not an irritating chatspeaking idiot, therefore welcome. You are way ahead of me on the writing thing, I've written two crappy short stories, I'd love to write a novel though. But I suffer from an inability to just write, people keep telling me to just write something, but my ideas all block up in my head and I can't get anything out.