25 Things You Probably Never Wanted to Know about This Author:
1. Hi. My name's Lindsey. Feel free to call me Linds.
2. I'm 17.
3. I live in the Southeastern USA. Tennessee, if you want to be specific.
4. I attend a private Catholic high school (hence why all of my stories take place in private Catholic high schools, generally in the south-eastern USA). I will be in for a culture shock when I get to college.
5. I'm adopted. Like the super cool, I've-never-met-my-birth-parents kind.
6. I talk about my characters like they're real people. Because to me, they are real people.
7. I love to read. Harry Potter, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, A Great and Terrible Beauty & Rebel's Angels & The Sweet Far Thing, Twilight & New Moon & Eclipse, Uglies & Peeps, the Trickster series, Chronicles of Narnia, Avalon High & All American Girl, Just Listen & This Lullaby, The Historian, Antonement, just to name a few.
8. Follow up to #7: I read a lot of young adult. Hence why I write a lot of young adult.
9. I'm short. Like 5 foot. Even. I'm not underestimating.
10. I love music. Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Hellogoodbye, Jason Mraz, Shiny Toy Guns, the Killers, All American Rejects, Fall Out Boy, Alkaline Trio, Cartel, Nickleback, Jimmy Eat World, the Kooks, (old) Maroon 5, Oasis, Paramore, Sara Barielles. All make an appearance on my iPod.
11. Follow up to #10: My iPod is a green mini. Not a Nano, a mini. Points to you if you can remember what those are. The screen casing is cracked. It's dented all over the place. The little Apple insignia is smudged. It's old school. Puh-leeeze.
12. My favorite color is blue. Some days. Others it's green. Sometimes purple.
13. I love to watch sports, but I can't play them at all. Favorite sports are hockey and football. Specifically high school hockey and college football.
14. Follow up to #13: My favorite teams are the Nashville Predators (hockey), the Tennessee Titans (pro football), the University of Tennessee Vols, LSU Tigers, Georgia Bulldogs, and basically the entire SEC (all college football).
15. Follow up to #14: I get my love of college football from my mom. She spends Saturdays yelling at the TV and telling her boys how to play their game.
16. I'm an only child. Which probably explains why most of my main characters have massive families. Maybe.
17. Apparently I'm the miniature, female version of my dad. Both in looks and personality. Which means I'm crazy stubborn and set in my ways. And bluntly honest.
18. I love my close group of friends. Of course, my "close" groups of friends includes about twenty people. Hum.
19. I'm pretty introverted. Usually.
20. I take Latin and manage to find it in every day words all the time. Hopefully that will help me with my ACTs?
21. I don't open up easily. Or trust easily either.
22. I'm an Aries. My birthday is April 17th.
23. I laugh a lot in awkward situations.
24. I'm very rational and not very emotional.
25. I write almost as much as I breathe.
I just recently deleted any stories that I know have no chance of being updated to make way for newer, going-to-be updated stories. I left London Calling on there because I really hope that it's going to be finished one day. The others had no hope.
Stories
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Nature's Business: Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do. They tell me that love can't be manipulated. I disagree.
English class assignment. I really can't believe I turned that thing in for English. Uses estentially the same characters as Borrow Your Smile (which was my first story on FP and has since been deleted because it was awful), but they have different names and that's not anything like how people are going to end up together in BYS, but... yeah.
Bombs Bursting in Air... Mostly: You know how they say you never forget your first love? You know how they say things happen for a reason? Well I was perfectly happy forgetting my first love with a good reason until my baby brother decided to run into his legs at the fireworks show. Oops.
Fun little one-shot based on the 4th of July (inspired by watching a fireworks show). I have other one-shots in mind using the same characters, all with a holiday theme, but this one was the first to make it.
That's So Cheesy: She didn’t like flowers. She didn’t like Valentine’s Day, huge boxes of chocolate, or hideously cute stuffed animals. She didn’t like anything under the category of cliché or cheesy. Sometimes it seemed like the only thing she did like was him.
By far my most popular story, for some reason. A cute one shot about, well, all that's cheesy in a relationship. With a very cheesy ending. Inspired by one of those stupid radio commercials about a random jewelry store.
From Day to Night: I should have known it was too good to be true. He was hot, a good dancer, and didn’t mind the fact that I was all sweaty. The fact that he also had a penchant for biting people shouldn’t have surprised me. He had to have some kind of oddity, right?
Written mostly as a birthday present for my best friend and partially for a SKoW challenge. My friend informed me that she wanted a story about vampires and she wanted a romance, and that's essentially what the SKoW challenge asked for too, so I just went for it. And there are a lot of random inside jokes there, but it's mostly pretty generic humor.
Knowing You Know Me: When your male best friend can predict when you’re on your period better than you can, you know there’s something wrong. And just when I thought things couldn’t get any worse… -SKoW Challenge response-
This challenge was totally calling my name. Besides, I've had Lina and Jake in my head for a while(with different names in different half-assed attempts at stories that never see the light of day), and this just seemed to fit them. They demanded it, what can I say? Nominated for SKoW Awards Best Challenge
Current Stories:
20 Things to Do Over Spring Break: London Calling: Throw a few American teenagers into London on Spring Break. Throw in two American, two English, and one Irish boy. Mix in a little spring break fun with a sense of adventure and some craziness and you get... my spring break.
Strongly based on my actual spring break '07. Only this one has romance in it that mine did not, and most of the male romantic interests are fictional characters. The main five girls, the Irish and one of the American boys, most of the members in the group, and all of the teachers are based off of real people. The inside jokes are real (we still yell them at each other in passing in the halls), and... yeah. It's mostly real, just a little exaggerated and more romance to make it more interesting to read. HIATUS
Superiority Complex: Peyton has the misfortune of being the only girl in her family. She has the misfortune of being a Graham, quarterbacks at Middleton University for ages. Her biggest misfortune? Her brothers won't let her play the sport she loves just as much as they do.
Product of NaNoWriMo '07. And honestly, it badly needs to be rewritten. I can pretend it's not cliche, but it's littered with them. But it's also chock full of girl power, so hopefully I'll eventually get around to rewriting it so that it can be read and enjoyed without cringing. BEING REWRITTEN
Grasping at Straws: We all know the clichés. Popular jock falls for nerdy, shy girl. Girl falls for best friend’s brother. Girl falls for brother’s best friend. But life never works out that way. Clichés never work out in real life. You can only expect to find them in Meg Cabot books and Disney movies. Then he came to our school. Oh boy.
Your stereotypical high school cliche, only better! Actually, I don't know if it's better, but I love the characters, so I'll have fun with it even if you no one else likes it. These characters have been in the works for at least six years. Obviously, they have been changed and matured and developed believable personalities (and been moved from the fanfiction realm to the original), but they are essentially the same characters my twelve year old self created. Check my homepage for more information on (and some pictures of) these ever interesting characters. IN PROGRESS
Coming... Eventually?:
A Prequel to BBiAM: Which is definitely not going to be the title of the story. It's Halloween centered and explains how Isabelle and Andrew got together. I'm a little excited about it because I know how they get together, but no one else really does (obviously).
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