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HERMiA ALCOTT
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Name: Hermia Alcott, the hint is in the pen name. This is just my pen name, actually, although I do want to legally change my real name some time in the future. I really don't like it. I like Hermia Alcott, though, as I'm sure you can tell. I got tired of changing my username over and over again, and I'm sure it annoyed and confused a couple of other people too... she knows who she is, even though her pen name changes more than mine does, so she's a bit of a hypocrite, really - meaningful glare -. So anyway, I eventually decided that it would just be simpler to make my pen name just that- my pen name, which is, incidentally, Hermia Alcott. It's an anagram of my real full name, with the second surname (of the pseudonym) removed and the extra 'h' on the end of Hermia booted off, because I think Hermia looks nicer than Hermiah.
Age: Immortal. I always say that and it never gets old. Well, it can't, 'cause it's immortal, ha ha ha. But okay, I'm a teenager. - storms off to go and be moody -
Appearance: Um... very... short, tall... err... hair, eyes... nose...
Reading: Anything and everything. My favourite genre is probably fantasy, but I like the 'general' category on fictionpress too, because loads of random stuff gets put in there, so you never know what you're going to find. Young adult I read a lot too, and while I don't often scour the romance section, I do like some stories with an underlying of love somewhere, although that's not critical in my enjoyment of the overall story. I also like some manga, if it's tasteful and not just full of junk spam-a-lot fics with Japanese names, because they annoy me. Not that I can do much better, I admit.
Writing: I'm working on what I hope will turn out to be a novel-length story called Stencils, although the name may change as the plot progresses. I started it for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), but I had the idea in my head a few months before. I was thrilled to have reached the 50,000 word mark by the end of November, which was the set goal. It is currently undergoing a lot of editing and revisions, and I've only got through a small fraction of the story so far, so I know I still have a long way to go, but I'm still going to try. I really like this story and hope something good will come out of it.
I've got a few ideas for some other short stories, although I'm not sure about some of them yet. I'm also in the process of typing up a story I wrote when I was eight about a girl called Nutmeg Rose who goes on strange and whimsical adventures. It doesn't seem to have much of a plot but it meant a lot to me when I was younger so I'm trying to do good by my past self. Recently I decided to enter a teenage writing competition, and I'm almost finished with my entry for that, so I'll be able to send it off soon.
Aside from writing and reading, which are both things that I do quite a lot, I like drawing (although I really am crap at it), listening to music (which I am brilliant at because it really doesn't take much talent to press a 'play' button, unless you don't have fingers, in which case you have to punch at the controls and probably break whatever it is you're trying to play music on) and sitting and thinking about short stories I would like to write, where I would like the things I am currently writing to go, and what I want the different characters to do. It is probably because I spend too much time thinking and not enough time doing that I don't have many works up yet. But they're coming, they're coming... honestly... some time... one day... maybe...
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