About Me:

Hey, this Iva Verde, also known as Fiona Flamingo on fanfiction.net!I'm an arsty person currently enrolled in Grade Nine and love anything to do with the fine arts (visual arts, music, drama or dance.) I play violin and viola and love it! Hmmm...what else about me... scratches head and thinks.

My favorite books include: Harry Potter, Twilight, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Eragon, Little Women, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre,A Great and Terrible Beauty, Rebel Angels, Inkspell, Inkheart, The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants, Wicked--any thing fantasyandthe list is always increasing

My favoritemusic artistsare: Avril Lavigne, Green Day, Good Charlotte, Sum 41, Simple Plan, Coldplay, Natasha Bedingfield and many more.

My hobbies include: reading, writing, drawing, photography, fashion design, interior design, crafts, hanging out with my friends.

Fav. Quote: Obession leads to Completion-FFlamingo/I.Verde

About my Writing

I like to think my writing is unique--I love fantasy, but usually stray away from the 'typical fantasy', instead I love experimenting and blending different genres together. Writing is very important to me and I try my best to make my work the absolute best they can be.

About Reviews

Please, please review if you have read my stories. I'd really appreciate it. I know I'm definitely not perfect, so constructive critisism is something that is welcome and compliments too (wink wink)I personally review story every story that I read, because there is nothing better than a review to motivateany author.Believe me I know.

Please don't think I'm begging for reviews...I just had to make that point.

Anyway, thanks to everyone who reviewed so far. You're awesome, you rock my world!

Links to Other Young Writers

If you're looking for a place to post your work--this is where I go and post some of my work:

http://www.absynthemuse.com">http://www.absynthemuse.com ( a great site that publishes all types of writing and allows you to add illustrations!)

http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/writers/read_writing.html">http://english.unitecnology.ac.nz/writers/read_writing.html ( a wonderful collection of stories, novels, poetry, essays, reports from kids and teens 5-18!)

Updates

I posted first4 chapters + prologueof 'The Ethereal Quest', though I've written about 25. I'll post it bit by bit, don't worry. That is if at least a few people like it.