I recently realised that this profile/bio thing was way out of date and so decided to completely rewrite it. Having just deleted the lot, I will now introduce myself.
So hello to you users of fictionpress. My name is Emma or Gecko if I'm online. The story behind my rather obscure username is long, complicated and when it comes down to it, not very interesting. Basically, it's a nickname I somehow managed to pick up around when I was 14.
Before I start rambling off on a tangent there, I should probably get down to this whole introducing myself business. I'm 17 years old and currently living in England. I'm taking AS Levels at the moment, repeating year 12 because I decided that actually, I didn't want to study maths, chemistry and biology. So I'm redoing the entire year but taking Philosophy, English Language and Literature, Theatre Studies, and Psychology.
Aside from all this schooly stuff, my hobbies include readinh, writing (I mean duh, otherwise why would I be on this site...?), unicycle (incuding unicycle hockey and unicycle jousting), juggling, knitting, karate, and rock climbing. A strange mix, I know.
My favourite authors would have to include Trudi Canavan, Piers Anthony, and, though I'm intensely critical of his writing (not to mention the way he very badly describes juggling), Robert Jordan. Unfortunately, I managed to get addicted to all of his books and while I sit there and nitpick at them, I find I am unable to put them down.
If you know any of the authors I've mentioned, you may have worked out that my favourite genre to read is fantasy. I'm not entirely sure what it is that draws me to fantasy writing so much, but I think it's a little bit like an escape from this world. From real life.
Strangely, you'll find that an awful lot of my writing will NOT be fantasy genre, but actually more about real life. I sort of use writing to purge myself of troubles by putting onto paper or, in this case, big computery deivce-type-thing.
Ohyeah, another thing about me. I'm slightly very obsessed with grammar. I blame this entirely on my friend, Leila, who I think is registered on here somewhere as demented_leaf or somesuch. Or maybe that's fanfiction.net. She corrupted me by forcing me to use proper grammar when communicating with her. First it was a chore, then it was a habit, then it was awesomely fun to beta read things and correct the mistakes.
As far as fanfiction goes, I'm not actually a massive fan of it. That doesn't mean I hate it - I do read fanfiction on occasion, but I tend to find it lacking after reading the actual writing of and original author. No matter how talented a writer is, they can never properly portray another writer's characters, in the same writing style, and in the same way. it doesn't necessarily mean their writing was not as good. Just different. And it's annoying to see someone writing a character you love totally out of character. This is just my view. There are many people who love fanfiction.
It seems that I have a lot of time to waste typing out pointless facts about myself that no one cares about, so while I am here, I will also cover my religious beliefs. I would call myself Atheist, though I do leave some possibility that there could be a greater being. Not necessarily as described by any religion, but I don't completely reject the idea. In this sense, I suppose I would have to call myself Agnostic. However, my main belief is that there is no god and I therefore will continue to call myself an Atheist. I very much dislike the bad name Atheists often have where they are associated with religion bashers. I personally don't care what someone wants to worship. You can worship the Christian God, the Muslim God, the Greek Goods, a big statue of a goat, a table, or a teapot for all I care, as long as you don't try to force your beliefs on other and as long as you are not hurting anyone.
It seems that I should have a concluding paragraph to sum up everything I have said. It also seems that I am having a problem coming up with one. This being the case, I will have to leave this as it is. I hope you had fun reading it, and if not, then you probably should have stopped reading when you got as far as "hello".
Bye now!
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