Currently Listening To: Natasha Bedingfield - "Unwritten"
About Me:
I'm a college freshman who's sold her soul to the history department, which, of course, is the best. I'm majoring in History/Social Studies and Secondary Education, with a minor in PoliSci. I can usually be found within the confines of the library, where I am doing reading and writing for said major(s), with some writing for Summerwrite thrown in to break up the monotony. And yeah.
Favorite Books: Pride and Prejudice, Lord of the Rings, A Great and Terrible Beauty, Harry Potter, The Count of Monte Cristo, Sense and Sensibility, The Other Boleyn Girl, everything Meg Cabot and Tamora Pierce have ever written
Favorite Movies: The Princess Bride, 10 Things I Hate About You, Moulin Rouge, Braveheart, Lord of the Rings, Mean Girls, Harry Potter, Gladiator, King Arthur, Tristan + Isolde, Pirates of the Caribbean
Music: Nickelback, Paramore, Flyleaf, The Hush Sound, Staind, Daughtry, Taylor Swift, Carrie Underwood, Kelly Clarkson, Josh Groban, The Veronicas, Anna Nalick, Avril Lavigne, Rascal Flatts
Favorite Historical Eras: Middle Ages (Britain in particular), Victorian, Ancient Greece/Rome, Tudor, Regency, Roaring Twenties
Quotes:
"I will eviscerate you in fiction; every last pimple, every last character flaw. I was naked for a day. You will be naked for eternity." -A Knight's Tale
"Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either." -Meg Cabot
"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." -Sylvia Plath
"Communication. It's the first thing we really learn in life. Funny thing is, once we grow up, learn our words and really start talking the harder it becomes to know what to say. Or how to ask for what we really need." -Grey's Anatomy
"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?" -Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
2 AM and I'm still awake, writing a song
If I get it all down on paper, it's no longer inside of me,
Threatening the life it belongs to
And I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd
'Cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud
And I know that you'll use them, however you want to
-Anna Nalick - "Breathe (2 AM)"
Collections:
100 Themes: A challenge on DeviantART, the aim of this collection is to write 100 pieces, each one reflecting a theme. This is a mix of oneshots, poems, haikus, and song lyrics. Currently working on 17 - Friends.
Consigned To Oblivion: A collection of songs, intended to make up an album. FAWM 2008. COMPLETE.
Quote Me On That: A collection of poems based on quotes.
Stories:
Everything I Know, I Learned In Band: Drama isn't unfamiliar to anyone in marching band. However, Kat Montgomery is finding that this latest drama is a bit much for her - she'd never expected her cheating ex-boyfriend to return from his jaunt to God knows where and, instead of trying to overtly win her back, insists that he, in fact, is completely over her. But is she completely over him? (Teen/Romance/Humor) : Currently writing Chapter Eight.
Opaque: Haylee Cirrut has yet to find her place in her crumbling country; shy and fearful, she can barely manage the simplest of spells, let alone her own life. So, when the monarchy finally crumbles and she finds herself pulled into the revolution's underground, she has even less of an idea what to do. Can she trust her new friends, and more importantly, will she ever figure out how to block out everyone's thoughts? (Fantasy/Political) : Summerwrite 2008 : Currently writing Chapter Seven.
Pending:
Shards of Memory: Klayr Malley gets the surprise of her life when she finds out that she is really the reincarnated version of Laramiel Ataraha, an old Elven Princess. When she finds out that her old lover, who is bent on domination of the Airia Realms, is trying to woo her once more, she has to struggle to break the cycle of history while proving all the while that she is no one's puppet. (Fantasy/Romance) : Planning.
An Unforgiving Land: Ari Relara has pushed herself so far, she doesn't remember what emotion is anymore. Lyndol Ewla has spent his whole life being ostracized for his heritage. When the two of them find that they must team up to prevent King Arsendath, Lyndol's father, from putting a terrible plan into motion, they will have to resist the urge to kill each other, which proves to be harder than it sounds. (Fantasy/Romance) : NaNoWriMo 2007 : Needs to be edited.
We Will Rock You: By day, Andrea and her friends are the school nerds, editing Wikipedia and completely dominating Knowledge Bowl. By night, they're forming their own political party and plotting a revolution to take over their school's student government. Will they succeed? (Teen/Humor) : Planning.
Carpe Diem: If Jen has a feeling that this is all a bad case of deja vu...well, she'd be right, as she discovers when she's suddenly sucked into a vortex after school one day, and finds herself in Victorian England. Soon, she discovers that she was supposedly in love with this one guy, and has to stop him from ruining the future. However, she's not sure she's the right person to call for this, seeing as how she's failing AP European, and everything. (Historical - Victorian/Fantasy/Romance/Teen) : Researching.
In Which I Make Everyone Think I'm A Masochist:
NaNoWriMo
2007: An Unforgiving Land - 51,226/50,000
2006: On the Wings of Fate - 11,000/50,000
Screnzy
2008: The Practical Fiddler - 23/100
2007: Carpe Diem - 2000/20,000
FAWM
2008: Consigned To Oblivion - 14/14
Summerwrite
2008: Opaque - We'll see.
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