Hello, I am BS.
Yes, that is my name. I go by no other if I can avoid it.
I am in my twenties (at the time of writing my very, very early twenties, but ignore this because by the time I'm likely to update this I could be in my mid-twenties or my late twenties or my forties knowing me). I'm studying a degree in Psychology (when I can be bothered) in North Wales, one of the few places on this earth where one needs a snorkel to cross the street. I enjoy many things, which obviously include writing. I have been writing at fanfiction.net for more years than I care to admit to, which is the cause of some rather awful stories there (an unfortunate by-product of my youth), but I have here-to-fore guarded my original work a little more closely... well, because to be honest I'm a vain little madam and dislike sharing my self-perceived genius.
I have since gotten over myself, realized that I'm not the next great child prodigy (particularly because I am now to old for the title) nor a modern Shakespeare in the bud and have subsequently decided to publish a few stories for your perusal. Feel free to be as critical as you like (though a few words of balm for my delicate ego never go amiss) and do be completely honest with your thoughts on my writing style. If you like it great, if you don't also great - I am interested to hear a variety of opinions on it matter. It all counts towards a learning curve.
Having said this: Please do not spam or flame me. There's little point and frankly it's simply cruel to do that when people have spent hours of their time trying to craft a piece of work. We may not always be good authors, but such is our lot in life. It does not require abuse.
Do enjoy my work if you are so inclined, I do enjoy writing the stuff, and who knows perhaps at some point I will return the favour.
Affectionately,
BS
A Brief Guide To My Work.
A hate overly long Author's Notes, so anything I think you might be interested in having explained will be listed here.
General
: For reasons I'm not going to go into for the sake of not sounding like I'm angling for sympathy, I made quite a lot of spelling errors, especially sometimes. I do proof-read my work and I'm seeing about a Beta Reader, but if you notice anything that's slipped the net letting me know is much appreciated. Similarly with grammar, though I should be better on that front.
: I also don't much like begging for reviews, however I find it a necessary evil because it seems a lot of casual readers tend to forget otherwise. Begging seems to make a real difference. As a compromise, I've decided to post a brief reminder to review at the end of each full chapter (when the number at the start of the chapter name changes, not after each post. See Story Section) and I don't generally bother at all with poetry. My apologies to those of you who really don't need such petty interruptions to your reading, but I'm afraid I like having reviews to much not to beg at all. If I ever write anything so colossally popular it doesn't need than (i.e. It gets more than lets say fifty reviews anyway), I will take all reminders from my story. At the moment, this seems unlikely though...
Story-Length Fiction
: Due to time related reasons I don't tend to write out my chapters whole. I have lot of University work, limited sporadic access to computers and I'd never get anything posted if I did. Instead I tend to post whenever I've come to section break and leave you with these really annoying fictionpress chapters labelled '1.a', '1.b', '1.c' etc. This may wind you up, and I am sorry for that, but for you it can possibly mean faster updates, less load-time and many more convenient places to take a break from reading - and personally I find it a much more author-friendly way of writing too, so therefore I'm afraid that for the foreseeable future things are likely to stay this way.
: Aside from begging more, another thing I feel would seriously increase my review count would be the use of less bland titles and summaries. Unfortunately the reason why they are so bland is because people like me really hate it when you're reading a story and none of the major plot twists surprise you because you've been given the lot in the summary. For those you you who do like more info however, the summaries I might have written - along with story-specific author's notes - are given below.
: To date I have at least four stories I would love to work on here on Fiction Press - however as you might have realized above I really don't have the time for all of those. Instead what I've decided to do is (rather than picking the stories myself and inevitably picking one nobody else wants to read) finish the first full chapter of each story and after that I will work primarily on those most popular at the time. This means if I'm in the mood for a certain story I can still work on it, but in general you will only get what you want. You can check the status of each story below.
>> In The Arms Of Summer
Status: Work In Progress, still within first chapter
Official Summary: In the mists of a horrific war, a fateful flight to a tropical paradise begets a truly unlikely cross-class romance with the potential to rip its society to the core. A story about a forbidden love in a made-up society and its fall-out.
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>> A Wisp Of Cloud
Status: Work In Progress, still within first chapter
Official Summary: When your whole life thus far revolved around seeing departed souls leave for the afterlife, death is no stranger and no great unknown. Until it's someone you know... Despite the rather emo intro, a story about finding love and friendship and keeping them.
Spoiler Summary:
Author's Note:
>> Tick Tock
Status: Unbegun.. or begun, but every time I do some technical fault conspires to make me start all over again.
Official Summary:
Spoiler Summary:
Author's Note:
>> The Sword Of Justice
Status: Unbegun
Official Summary:
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Poetry
: To be perfectly frank, I don't like poetry much anymore and don't often write these for that reason. Officially I gave up the genre at 16, after an unhappy modship of a poetry board left me with a deeply ingrained hatred of all things in verse. Please bare in mind that I have to be in a peculiar mood indeed to even want to write poetry, though when I do I am happy to post it for those who are interested Basically I'm an attention-whore and there are few things I love more than reviews, so even poetry will do for that purpose.
: In general all poetry will rhyme. If the mood strikes me I may write something else, but I like rhyming poetry. I enjoy the challenge of writing it and the use of it to express mood and am generally disinclined to write non-rhyming. Those of you who don't like my style or the way I use it can feel free to critique at your leisure, but I really don't want to write any other way. Sorry.
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