--My name is Savannah, and you can call me that.
--I got my start really writing through fan fiction, and I advise it as a base starting point for any aspiring author. Fan fiction teaches you how to know characters and how to write in brilliant, emotion-manipulating ways.
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have finished five books to date (Woman's World, WW: Apostasy, WW: Insurrection, OCAP, and Go Look There obviously not all are posted).
--My Myspace and Livejournal are available upon request.
--Email me for anything, anytime.
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Admired Authors (in no particular order):
JK Rowling
Toni Morrison
David Sedaris
Maya Angelou
Christ Crutcher
Amy Tan
Dean Koontz
James Thurber
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Young writer not sure where to start/need inspiration? Check out my blog for teenage writers. (See the address at the top of the screen).
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Background information on the WW series:
I was upset that the stereotype for women ruling the world was beautiful Amazon warriors running around with spears and cavemen outfits, using men as sex slaves. I decided to write a book realistically describing a world in which females were in charge. The intention was to insist that female rule would create a utopia, but, as loyal readers of the series have found, it does not. The book evolved into a doctrine teaching equality between the sexes, not superiority of either. I wrote the first draft of WW when I was in ninth grade. Senior readers will remember all the flaws that went with it. Subsequent drafts and revisions have created a more or less beloved book that many reviewers have fallen in love with (so they tell me). My main goal in life is to have this series published, so maybe one day you will see it in stores, hey?
WW has taught me so much about real writing. I'm a believer in living characters, and this book has taught me better how to communicate with them. As many famous (and rightfully so) authors (including Ray Bradbury and Stephen King) have said, characters are their own pepole. They decide how the story will go, not you. I merely wander by them, writing down what happens.
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Background information on Of Coffee And People
I was in tenth grade and trying to sleep, when the text for the first chapter came out and began floating in my mind, beginning with the first sentence: "Sarza would never have agreed to it if we hadn't have gotten her drunk." I groaned, realizing that if I didn't get out of bed and write this down it was going to bother me and I would most likely forget it. I wrote the first chapter in a red notebook and, exhausted and annoyed, went to bed.
Since then, OCAP has evolved into a hilarious, heartwarming tale of college kids and idealists. I'm stuck on it right now and have been for a year, but it is /never/ far from my thoughts (and I mean that). I'm always taking it out to look at it and mourn that I haven't done any work on it. Someday I hope it will be published too (Oprah reading list, here I come!).
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02-05-07: WW: Insurrection completed at 6:05 PM!
11-17-06: I was published in TeenInk! Visit my story in the link for my homepage!
11-14-06: I have Strepp Throat and that means time home for school which means WRITING!!! Also, my authoric mentors have advised publication of my first 'real' horror story to a literary magazine. I submit today; wish me luck?
9-18-07: I've deleted a lot of my old stories because a) they are old b) I now realize that posting original work online is in no way safe and c) you really didn't care about them anyway. :P
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"Art is anything you can get away with." - Marshall McLuhan
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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an
answer. ~Karl Kraus
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Everyone
who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out,
dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.
-Bolan Bushnell
The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or
behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence,
indifferent, paring his fingernails.
~ James Joyce
Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was
too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
~Katherine Mansfield
I try to leave out the parts that people skip. ~Elmore Leonard
If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't
been written yet, then you must write it. ~Toni Morrison
The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect
fashion, some place, in the air. All I
must do is find it, and copy it.
~Jules
Renard, "Diary," February 1895
A writer and nothing else: a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human
feelings right.
~John K. Hutchens, New
York Herald Tribune, 10 September 1961
Let me walk through the fields of paper
touching with my wand
dry stems and stunted
butterflies...
~Denise Levertov, "A Walk through the Notebooks"
Unlike the faint scurry raised by fingers against a plastic computer
keyboard, the smack and clatter of a typewriter suggests that you're
actually building something. At the end of a miserable day, instead of
grieveing my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper
basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees
down with me.
----David Sedaris
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it
can be told.
~André Gide
It is impossible to discourage the real writers -
they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.
~Sinclair Lewis
A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but
not necessarily in that order.
~Jean
Luc Godard
"I start with a tingle, a kind of feeling of the story
I will write. Then come the characters,
and they take over, they make the story."
~Isak Dinesen
Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
~William Safire, "Great Rules of Writing"
More Quotes not Related to Writing:
Old tribal quote: He upon whose head we would break a coconut is never still.
Life is so tough that none of us make it out of here alive...
-Dennis Maloney
Tell me, I will forget. Show me, I may remember. Involve me, I will understand.
-Chinese Proverb
The fountain of youth is in Draco Malfoy's Pants
-cannot be explained
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