This is an exert from the bio of Lauren Raven. I thought it was an awesome idea. Just trying to spread the word. Lauren, if you are offended, feel free to tell me and I'll write my own version. I just thought yours worked well:Okay. Know what I've noticed? If you go to the front page of , it has a little thingie on the right where you can see the number of reviews written and pieces authored and such like that. Look carefully at those two numbers. If you average it out, each piece on this site should have at least two reviews. But do they? No. I've read a novel-length piece that has over 2000 reviews (and, as I am incredibly stingy, I will not tell you what it is. I doubt the author even reads all those reviews. And for the record, I do read all mine and I do return the favor whenever possible, in other words, pretty much always.) and there are thousands of unreviewed pieces on this site. So I have a challenge for you all: go to either Just In or Quick Picks and go through all the unreviewed pieces and review them. Or pick two. Or three. Consider an unreviewed piece a personal challenge. Your efforts will be appreciated and you may just pick up a few new readers. Anyway, on to the bio!
Ok, time to revamp my entire profile!!!!!!!!!!
Welcome to the psyco insane writing domain of ME!
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A little about myself-
Name: Lindsay H. (put up because I'm paranoid about plagairism. I mean, ANYONE could be Lellida.)
Age: 19
Obsessions: Ice, Space, Fire, Water, Wind, Power, (some) Fantasy creatures, Ancient civilizations, Mythology, Nature, Art, Death from an outsider's point of view, Magic, Emotions, Natural disasters (things that prove the patheticness of humansto a degree), Religion in the spiritual sense... yea I think that's a good starting list!
Lukewarm (things I don't really like to write about): Love, Civilization, Messy,unpoetic deaths, unprovoked angst, Religion in the organized sense... yea the list is actually pretty short!
I'm passionate about: my writing. Even if it's not that good, I'm still (sadly) possessive about it.
I'm bad at: updating- VERY Bad about this.
I'm good at: NOTHING!!! ;) I tend to daydream a lot, and hope someday to either be the goddess of who-knows-what, or to be a happy hermit on my own private island, or to be complete and supreme ruler of the known universe,... but until any of these happen, I write.
The word I use the most: ecstacy. I swear it's in almost everything I write, even though I still can't spell it.
Favorite poem: Probably Unmarred, because it perfectly conveys what I was trying to say. Edit: Endure is my lover, my baby, and my pride and joy, even though I don't think it's completed yet. Oh, and I like Hollow a lot.
Least favorite poem: Well, I had one up here a while ago called Ice, and I hated it, to point of deleting it off my computer. It just kind of made me sick inside whenever I read it. Currently, I guess Obsession is pretty lame. Basically, I am ashamed of most of my angst poems. They're just there to get them out of my head and on paper, nothing more.
OK! I think that's about it. I tend to write fantasy, but I like to experiment in different genres, and enjoy different tastes of writing.
If you have any questions, feel free to leave them in your review and I will answer them up here. (Gives ya more incentive to review right? ;)) I have a fanfiction site under the same name http://www.fanfiction.net/~lellida
Plz review. I always try to at least visit my reviewer's site, if not review back for them ( not out of obligation either- just cause all you guys are THAT good.)
Questions answered:
Death
-simpleplan13 : the last stanza is meant to say that Death isn't always quick and painless- i.e. car crashes and such
Mr.Bones
-Goth-girl1 : your review made me laugh- Thanks!
Beached
-Monkey: you are horrible! ;p
Chlorine Friendship
-ionlyliveindreams : Whoops! Thought I had already changed the rating. Thanks for pointing it out!
-Eagle Seance : sheepish grin Well, basically I'm just going to use "nigger" a bit.
-Elven Sword : "What Would Jesus Do"- fitting for Tracy don't ya think?
The Greenhouse is a Cage
-Lirra : Maybe it's the sandman that's attacking Earth!!!! ;) No more people falling asleep randomly in the chapter; I promise.
-Lovetress:Actually the lack of description was intentional. I mean, if you say "hand" everyone knows what that looks like. So what's to say that alien races don't automatically know what a "spinze" looks like? I wanted to really write it from the perspective of the aliens.
Hunting Season
-Eggrowedge: While I await for your court case to come up, what say we discuss the verdict on those Teddy Grahams?
The Black Knight
-Artemis Darkclaw : Shoulders! Hahaha! The typo made me laugh. Thanks for pointing it out.
Too much pizza and candy
-monkey: old fashioned way = knee + groin. Like what you and Colleen did to Jason.
-Blondeggman : yes Lauren, Liz did say the banana thing to you. It's called a sexual innuendo- apparently you got it in the story.
Jenna
-tyrantvirus: I was trying to convey a horrific image there, and cut wrists didn't seem enough. I think she tore her own scalp and stuck her feet in a fire as all this was happening. That's one thing that changed from the original story; I wrote her hands were burned, but then she wouldn't be able to get at her wrists, so I had to change it.
Frozen
-Ivy Majors: A little personal symbolism, but not a lot. Basically the piece is toying with the idea of eternity- eternal suffering and eternal isolation. I mean, could someone take that kind of torture forever? And how would you react if you knew no one even knew you existed? The main questions that brought on this piece. Any symbolism in it came after I actually wrote it.
Love
-Boadicia: Thanks for that grammer error in the 5th poem. Can't believe I missed that.
-Devidedistand: o_o, well that's a different opinion! I can see what you're talking about though, and that sucks that it happened to you. The poem was written because a kid in my grade died recently- killed himself out of the blue- and all day, it wasn't just his girlfriend and former girlfriends that were sobbing- it was everyone who had ever known him and had been friends with him, even the guys. I guess I was just feeling fed up with stereotypical love, and friendship love is so...different. I find it fascinating.
Penned Prostitution
-Blood-Dyed Skies:I love you so much! That was EXACTLY what I was trying to say-about the emotions and stuff- but the words kept eluding me. Thank you!
Devil's Passion
-Spreading The Angst: Wow- thanks for the lovely critique! To tell you the truth, I know very little about angels and their true nature, so this is kind of my interpretation: spirits with bodies, but indescribable. Note how I tried very hard to never remark on wings as they were flying. Your review made me grin at the complete irony of it, but that's only because I know the story. Hehehe. Anyway, thanks again for this review and all the other ones!
-E.J.H. Stevens: I guess I went too heavy on the whole wary of Lucifer thing eh? Basically he's treating her differently because of her encounter, which has something to do with his thoughts that Ilse doesn't remember. In the third chapter, she got a flash of what Lucifer's thoughts felt like, but couldnt' remember what they were. Thanks so much for the criticism- It was really some of the best I've gotten yet and it'll really help me with a few revisions!
A FairyTale Deferred
-emeraude-irlandais: Yea, pretty much only the title is based on"Dream deferred", though the last couple of lines areinspired by it as well.
Thank You
Lord-of-Fools:: You are right to say that many other societies shaped the West. However, the point of the piece wasn't to talk about how the west was shaped, but rather how the ideas of the west were saved during the "dark ages".
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