About Me
I am a writer, it is my passion; my art. I do hope to become an author someday, preferably famous, but I'll just have to wait and see, wont I? Personally, I think reading and writing brings out people, whether the best or the worst, depends on the person. It takes patience and genius, emotion and perseverance.
Anyone can write something down and call it a story but the only real story is the one thats written by the writer who can feel every emotion their characters feel; can know everything about their characters if you were to ask them on the spot; can name everything people in the story are going through. They can change events of their own lives into elaborate plots in their stories that seem totally unrelated. They have the minds of geniuses and hearts full of unshown feelings.
This website (underneath this paragraph) gives a quiz about fantasy stories. If you say yes to any of these you should supposedly stop writing that story. Although, to me, if you only have one or two yes's tops, I think you should be fine, just as long as you dont cliche it. Also, if you think ur "good" at writing, maybe you should check this out. If you think ur not, or have questions about good plots for stories, you should also check this out. Heres the website.
http://www.rinkworks.com/fnovel/
I'm going to tell you guyz a secret. I use reverse jinxing in my stories. Which means that, If I pretend that my story is crappy, it comes out good. If I say it's good, it comes out crappy. So if you think I'm being underconfident, trust me, I'm not. Gotta luv the reverse jinx XD. Try it, it works. And btw, knocking on wood...yea, there's a reason people do it.
Name: you can use my nickname: Salem
Gender: Female
Specialize in: Archery, flexibility, mythology, knowledge of magical creatures and items, writing, liguistics (words), other languages, deep thought, understanding both sides of an argument, being energetic and very optimistic.
Gifts: Morph/spells and charms
Origin: My great-great grandmother was a full-blooded Blackfoot Native American, I'm also Irish, Scottish, Polish, German, British (can talk with the accent too b/c i used to live there) American...etc.. (also, to top it all off I'm related to King Kenneth the II of Scotland =D)
Who: Geek (proud of it), writer and editor, deep thinker and translator
Age: If you absolutely HAVE to know...I am 8 years older than two years after I turned 3.
Emotions shown most often: Deep thought, happiness, Energetic, Weirdness (if thats an emotion), laughter
Friends: Not hundreds or anything but enough. And they're good friends. My best friend is Thorn, though she's now changed her nickname to Azzy..., who on fictionpress is WildRoseThorn, she does beautiful poems that awe me and are completely inspiring. Her stories are very well-written and connect well too. Here is the link to her account.
http://www.fictionpress.com/u/597554
She's also on fanfiction.net. Her user is still WildRoseThorn. She does really good avatar: the last airbender fanfics, along with some amazing poems.
OTHER
Fave series: Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, the Inheritance series (which is no longer a trilogy) by Christopher Paolini, The Leven Thumps series by Obert Skye, the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis.
Fave books: The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Fave stories: Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl, Dancing among the Flames by Twilight Starr (she's in fictionpress on my fave authors list), all stories by Azzy.
Fave poems: Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout would not take the garbage out by Shel Silverstein, Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe, many others, i like dark poems especially right now =D
Fave movies: JUMANJI! 1408! The Messengers, Lion King, Aladdin, Mulan, Pocahontas, Ever After, The Sixth Sense, National Treasure I & II ( will be 4 total), Quest for Camelot, Meet the Robinsons, The Princess Bride.
Favorite actors/actresses: Tim Allen, Robin Williams, Jim Carrey, Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Cage, Johnny Depp, Drew Barrymore, Macauley Caulkin, Eddie Murphy
Favorite writers: Christopher Paolini, Dr. Seuss, Lemony Snicket, (aka Daniel Handler), C.S. Lewis, anyone on my fave authors list on fanfiction.net or here on fictionpress.com
QUOTES
"There's a reason we were born with brains in our heads, not rocks." -Brom; Eragon.
"Be who you are. Say how you feel; because those who mind don't matter and those who matter, don't mind." - Dr. Seuss
"You see things as they are and ask 'why'? I dream things as they never were and ask 'why not'?" -George Bernard Shaw
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science." - Albert Einstein
Dreams are uncompleted tasks who will make you who you are.
Life is like a good action/adventure story: the Characters are waiting to be met but the plot isn't found out until the end.
You never know what will happen to you in life...so eat dessert first =D
For long life: Inhale every time you exhale
Dying is only a way of saying goodbye forcibly while waiting to say hello again patiently.
"You! You can't lie...tell me where shrek is!" "Well I don't know where he's not." "You dont know where Shrek is?" "to the contrary!" "You DO know where he is?" "I'm possibly more or less not defenitely rejecting the idea that i undeniably-" "stop it!" "-do or do not know where he shouldn't probably be; if, that indeed, wasn't where he isn't!"-Pinocchio and Prince Charming from Shrek
STORIES
The Hidden: Secrets are everywhere- Minorly working on. I have like three chapters left to type and then im running out of ideas...I'm feeling this story was getting sappy, but then, I still hafta post three chapters I wrote for you to see why...sry...
Summary: Their powers are gifts that curse them to be tracked. Assasins follow them everywhere, determined to eliminate them. They must find & help each other. They must use their gifts to stop the Queen of Charic before she enslaves or kills everyone. No pressure.
Beta-Reader: Openheadspace. She's wonderful and she's what makes this story sound professional.
Current # of Chapters: 10
Reviews: 14
Rated: Teen for violence, domestic abuse, and concepts of killing and possibly torturing
Warning: Fantasical creatures invovled.
Action/Adventure/Drama
Phoenix's Reign: this one is fairly new though it is a different version of one of my stories. This is actually currently the one I will be working on the most. I personally, love the relationships between the characters. This is also my ultimate favorite. XD
Summary: The countries are being overwhlemed. People are dying, suffering. Their villages being burned down and species are becoming extinct. But when four people become one unlikely group, they might be able to reclaim what was stolen.The problem is their past may get in the way.
Beta-reader: Wildrosethorn
Current # of Chapters: 7
Reviews: 16
Rated: Teen for Violence and some major injury, killing and possibly torture.
Warning: Fantastical Creatures involved, such as elves, demons, and people who can change their appearance at will. Oh, and a scene with slight sexual suggestion, nothing actually happens so go push your eyes back into your head and read already.
Fantasy/Action/Adventure
Everything else unless specified is complete !
Things you should know about my writing
1. I may use chatspeak in my writing. Yea, well, sry, but it's out of habit. Playing too many rpg online games and stuff I guess, lol.
2. I generally write stories about fantastical creatures. Yea, that's because I believe that being in a fantasy world would be so much better than living on this boring one. Blah. And I also like the concept of people being able to do things normal people can't.
3. My poems are generally semi-angsty and revolve around anti-conformity. Big words which just mean that I hate how people try and act and look the same! Be unique!!
4. I tend to ramble and go on and on and on and talk a lot...Like now...
5. When I get excited about a story, I'll get so into the story, that I'll forget that the reader can't see the world in my story like I do, so I'll probably have to rewrite descriptions and things like that.
HEY YOU! YEA, YOU! IF YOU'RE ONE OF THOSE ANNOYING NON-REVIEWERS, THERE'S NO EXCUSE, B/C I TAKE ANONYMOUS REVIEWS! YOU ARE MAKING ME ANGRY. SALEM DOES NOT LIKE TO BE ANGRY!!
Sry about any typos on this profile or in my stories, to be honest, I do not always catch them, and occasionally my editor will miss parts in my stories, so please help me out and critique my writings. In fact, I'll even take the time to review you back...providing you give me a review with HELPFUL criticism.
for example: "This is great." Argh! Tell me why it's great! Tell me what you liked, what you didn't like! I'm okay with getting "I hate this's" If you tell me why! you have no idea how annoying it is to see a comment like "Good." oi. Okay, i'm done ranting for now...
IF YOU DONT I'M THIS ) ( CLOSE TO SENDING FILCH ON YOU AND HAVING HIM "HANG YOU BY YOUR THUMBNAILS IN THE DUNGEONS"!
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