Hello there, I joined a few weeks ago and sorta forgot about it for a while. I plan to start being active here in days to come.
I just finished year 9 (southern hemisphere gang) and write for creative relief to my crazy ideas. I've been writing for a little over a year, however, I like to barf all my ideas onto a page, never even reding through the complete draft of the story. I don't consider myself a good writer and often get unnessicarily self-conscious of my work, hopefully this will change in days to come. I usually write short stories; I would like to write a novel one day when I manage to think up an idea that I actual want to stick with. Hopefully I'll still be hanging around here when I do.
My experience in critiquing stuff is limited. I once critiqued and edited a friends novel which was heavily inspired by Mistborn. Other than that, I do a few passages on Reddit from time to time but that's pretty much it.
Apart from Sanderson's work, some of my favourite series/books include The Wheel of Time, the Belagriad and The Fellowship of the Ring.