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Author has written 24 stories for Romance, Young Adult, Humor, General, Love, and General. I would like to begin by saying: if you have taken the time to check out my profile, please please PLEASE drop a review on my stories! It helps, and above all, makes me smile to know that people are reading them. july 26, 2011 I am coming back. With a new story: TAG. Which I am super excited about. So excited, actually, that it's kind of hard to write because I get so lost in this world. It's going to be a somewhat different style, but one that's (hopefully) a bit more grownup. It started when I was thinking about how much I wish for a save-the-world adventure, then realize that even if one miraculously falls at my feet, I'm nothing special. I'm not the "Chosen One." And most people aren't. So the protagonist (Lini) is just slightly psychic (in a world of super-powerful psis and the normals who... don't really like them) rescued from a government facility along with the boy who will fulfill that Chosen One role. But it's not about him. He's largely not in the story at all. It's just about this mentally unbalanced girl, taken away from the only place she knows, told that it's evil, and brought to work in a rich family's menagerie. Because, obviously, that's the most logical place for her. It's sci-fi/adventure/romance. Theoretically. And I don't have a good segue to lead into point number two: how utterly amazing all my readers are. I took a break from fp. I took a break from writing. For some time now, I have been struggling to find my voice. And that's entirely because of you guys. Not the struggle, that's all me and this pesky little demon called writer's block. The return, though, is, well... I sorta forgot how much I loved this. Writing, that is. And I figured it didn't really matter. And now-- don't get me wrong, I don't think my writing is world-changing or that there's a country of people out there who honestly care, but-- the support I got from you guys, the messages of encouragement, I don't think I can describe what they meant to me. My computer got jacked by a virus, which somehow fucked up my e-mail, and so I switched to a new address, and then a couple months ago I found that my old one was back in working order and was greeted with all these indescribably lovely messages that people cared. There are people who just really enjoyed my stories, and people who it honestly touched, and I called my best friend and tearfully read every one of these and I think you all are amazing. You reminded me why I love this. In less happy news, due to the e-mail fuckery I lost many old messages and reviews, so if I did not respond to you, I do really apologize. Just let me know. In the future, however, I am sorry to say that I am stopping my review-back policy, largely because I do not have guaranteed free time. I barely have time to write most of the year. I will try my best to return reviews, because I just feel that if someone took the time to honestly let me know what they think, and give me that warm fuzzy feeling that someone's reading my writing, I can certainly do the same. So I will do my best to continue, but can't promise it. In short, please check out my newest story! (When it appears) And thanks. april 23, 2011 I'll be honest. This is a longer break than I expected I would take. And I don't know if I'm coming back. It might happen, it's just... writing used to be such a fantastic release for me. A way to float up out of my own stupid body and escape my life and work out my problems and every other cliche in the book. But a lot has happened to me this year. I grew up, I left my best friend, I fell in love, I got my heart broken, I started all sorts of new self destructive habits and reached new lows even for me. I am a seriously screwed up individual who is just now learning that you can't hide from all your problems. I have finally started (just barely, baby steps) to live. It took a long time for me to let my guard down, but now that I have... it's kind of lovely, how people will amaze you if you let them. Of course they'll hurt you, and disappoint you, and lie again and again and be cowards and leave you standing barefoot in the rain at three in the morning as you wonder if it was all in your head. But they can also sometimes look at you in this special way and not respect any of your boundaries and you might believe they want to fix you. But in the end it's just you, it turns out. And yes, it sucks. It sucks a lot. But it does make you a little bit smarter. And this is my long-winded way of saying that I sincerely hope that one day I can-- well, not be the girl I was who wrote these things, because I don't want to go back. But be another girl who can exist on a tangent plane that I can write these things again. Maybe I'll wake up in a week or six months or three years and suddenly I'll have it back. My writing. What I lost. Whether or not that happens, I know, as a reader, how incredibly unbelievably mind-bogglingly frustrating it is when an author just up and quits -even if it's just temporarily- on you. In that vein, believe me when I say that if you PM me about my stories, I am honestly happy to share future plot points and bits that I have written. I still check the e-mail I use for this, and I expect I will for several more years. I mean this completely. Everyone who has reviewed my stories or poems, I cannot express my thanks. It fills me with joy to know that people still read these, that they're still touched by something I've created, by something that has a little piece of me in it. If the unthinkable happens and I can't write on here again, don't doubt that I'll be published. I don't, if I can just want it badly enough. And I don't mean that in the horribly cocky way it sounds just... I'm not done yet. september 16, 2010 It appears that it's been a while since I last posted anything here, responded to a review, what have you. I regret to say that it will be a while longer. I don't doubt that one day I'll find my writing again, but for now it has eluded me. I doubt you care about the details, so suffice it to say I am posting one last poem, that I wrote a bit ago, as a temporary goodbye. I know I haven't responded to reviews, but I have every single one that I haven't replied to saved in a special secret place. And I will get back to everyone, one day. What I'm experiencing is more than writer's block, but something where it seems that writing can hurt me. No, that's too extreme. Let's put it like this: writing used to help me cope with things that were difficult in my life, either as a way to explore what I was feeling or to escape altogether. But I have reached a point where all my various methods of distraction have become too much. You can't hide from your problems forever, no matter how far you run or how hard you try, and when you suck it up and stop self-destructing, you might realize that you can, cliche as it sounds, grow. And be happy. And have all those experiences you secretly hoped for/were terrified of. The poem I'm posting is not a goodbye; it's a see-you-later. I don't doubt that I'll be back; I just need to follow my own winding yellow brick road out of this spiraling maze of myself. | |||||||
1. TAG reviewsLini likes clean, cool metal, is frightened of the noise her feet make and is barely psychic enough to be noticed. Due to a rescue she never asked for, she begins work in a menagerie, with the first awkward, brilliant, blind boy she cannot understand.Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,158 - Reviews: 4 - Published: 7-30-112. of love coffeespoons and derivatives reviewsthere's a boy i have in mind/he reads my body like braille and i am the canvas for his fingerpaint/as he crashes neon-bright into heartbreak/and i'm so f-ing mad over himPoetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 255 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 9-16-10 - Complete3. Haptic Jungle and Sunshine Synchronicity » reviewsPinot is just a fashionably awkward idealist who thinks she can save the whole world in one summer. North is just the cynical, sarcastic son of her father's mistress who wants a skate-park where she wants a tree. Together they just set the world on fire.Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 12 - Words: 40,347 - Reviews: 100 - Updated: 4-26-10 - Published: 3-10-094. crack coffee and soy » reviewsAlec is a broken-hearted, starving artist trying to find the inspiration he lost about eight months ago. Cammie stays thin by talking, doesn't ask permission, and the only things she knows how to feel are silk sheets. Director, take one. Shoot.Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Humor/Drama - Chapters: 10 - Words: 18,417 - Reviews: 88 - Updated: 2-28-10 - Published: 10-5-085. Tried'True'Blue Girls » reviewsChloe is a Queen-Bee-in-training, and she has to go to Mexico to help her ex-best-friend's ex-boyfriend win her back. But the awkward and charming Alfie also dragged along his own best friend- a cynical, philosophical, blue-eyed stoner named Max.Fiction: Young Adult - Rated: T - English - Humor/Drama - Chapters: 3 - Words: 6,357 - Reviews: 13 - Updated: 10-13-09 - Published: 3-1-096. crazy new york artist girl reviewsshe will wish on glitter-glue and the tuesday after next/like they're going out of stylePoetry: General - Rated: T - English - Friendship/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 294 - Reviews: 12 - Published: 10-8-09 - Complete7. Ode to Peter Pan reviewshis address is the day after tomorrow/and if it were the apocalypse, i would want to hear his laugh/as he whispers honeyed electricity -i don't want guarantees-Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Friendship/Fantasy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 242 - Reviews: 17 - Published: 9-23-09 - Complete8. Dogs and Aliens reviewsThey are dysfunctional and illogical and imperfect and he doesn't even really like her, anyway. But it's 2am, and she's throwing pebbles at his window, praying he'll come watch the shooting-stars-slash-UFOs with her. ONESHOT.Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Drama/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 9,520 - Reviews: 24 - Published: 9-20-09 - Complete9. Screwing Sunday » reviewsSunday will be valedictorian. She will be. She will– ooh, wow, her toes are long! Lovely. Right. And Tom Hazard... is the class clown. An unemotional stone. Her competition for valedictorian. And then- well, then it all went nicely to hell.Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 2 - Words: 3,007 - Reviews: 12 - Updated: 8-19-09 - Published: 7-11-0910. Burning Canvas reviewsMeet Edie: charming, boy-crazy, queen bitch. Alias: The Fixer- genius hacker, completely bored. Newest job: investigate mysterious government project known as Seven. Tiny snag: Blue-eyed Seven arriving on her doorstep. Looking for Edie's dead twin.Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Sci-Fi/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,229 - Reviews: 9 - Published: 8-16-0911. Catching Crazy » reviewsDizzy is pretty sure she was just saved by a real, live superhero, and she- ooh, shiny! What was her– right, she won't be the bait for any wannabe Lois Lane. Yeah. And, um, Ernest Clifford III needs to accept that she only dates tortured, artistic types.Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Humor/Adventure - Chapters: 3 - Words: 6,798 - Reviews: 20 - Updated: 6-28-09 - Published: 8-21-0812. Sugared Freckles reviewsshe doesn't think they're soulmates and he's not sure they'll ever fit quite right -and there's nothing special or beautiful about them-. just a pair of disaffected teens. /down the rabbit hole/Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 332 - Reviews: 9 - Published: 3-27-09 - Complete13. Mayhem, Murder and Manolo's » reviewsCharlie: awkward and mathematically gifted. Going to find her missing friend. Jamie: Too-beautiful boy. Won't give her the time of day. Toby: Redheaded genius. Going to drive her crazy. /it's shoes and smiles and SATs/Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Humor/Adventure - Chapters: 6 - Words: 14,114 - Reviews: 27 - Updated: 3-22-09 - Published: 1-19-0814. Confessions of a Teenage Idiot » reviewsMurphy accidentally-drunkenly-told everyone about the time he slept with his ditzy,emotional girlfriend's short-tempered and loyal best friend.Who'll kind of never talk to him again.And his girlfriend's kind of falling for his asshole best friend. Wait...Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Humor/Drama - Chapters: 4 - Words: 8,346 - Reviews: 16 - Updated: 2-24-09 - Published: 12-14-0815. An Inevitable, Nonsensical Hijacking reviewsshe has the smile of a child and a heartbreaker -he is Peter-Pan-apocalypse-. he caught her and he let her fall. /Of runny noses and colds and gin-joints and Barbie and Ken and skin/Poetry: Love - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,077 - Reviews: 8 - Published: 2-20-09 - Complete16. Stalkers and Cigarettes and Valentine's Day reviewsDon't you know what caffeine does to you? No, I have no idea. But I'm sure it's not good. What do you mean there's caffeine in tea? What? My boyfriend? He's just... running a little late. This isn't a date!Fiction: Romance - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 543 - Reviews: 12 - Published: 2-14-09 - Complete17. Sweets and Cherries and Other Lovely Things reviewsSadie's in the middle, see, and when she dies, they're all screwed. Because- it's- well, it's like this- Xander loves her, but she screws Mac, who also sleeps with Xander's sister. And the jailbait, the pill-popper, and the geek are... well, um, caught.Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Drama/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,267 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 2-7-09 - Published: 11-29-0818. December Heroes and Schoolyard Ghosts » reviewsHe just wants her to pose as a nun, and it wouldn't hurt if she had more thoughts in her head than colors in her hair. She just wants that damn anal-retentive ghost out of her room. And her younger brother just can't choose between psycho and disaster.Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Humor/Adventure - Chapters: 7 - Words: 31,401 - Reviews: 57 - Updated: 1-20-09 - Published: 4-10-0819. Confused Musings of a Girl Who Gets Shrek » reviewsThe roller coaster ride that is long hair, one night stands, bubblegum and so much more. COMPLETE!Fiction: Young Adult - Rated: T - English - Drama/Humor - Chapters: 13 - Words: 8,267 - Reviews: 111 - Updated: 12-10-08 - Published: 6-5-08 - Complete20. Their Story » reviewsIt's about girls who know they're right but they're too scared to say so. Boys who need order and organization or everything will fall apart. Macchiatos, jello shots, quiet and sweet and dirty. And everything in between. -told in drabbles-Fiction: General - Rated: T - English - Humor/Drama - Chapters: 4 - Words: 3,452 - Reviews: 8 - Updated: 12-4-08 - Published: 11-5-0821. Switch to the Express reviewsOne perfect kiss and she was willing to forget everything. Too bad that kiss was in her dreams. Too bad he still had no idea that she'd only talked to him that time because she was worried she'd look too psychotic simply staring into his beautiful eyes.Fiction: Romance - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 645 - Reviews: 7 - Published: 10-23-08 - Complete22. Once Upon a Time' and Kill Me Ever After's » reviewsThe fate of the world is in the hands of four college students. The happy one set her dorm room on fire, the boy she thinks has pretty eyes thinks everyone's trying to kill him, he lives with a wannabe Native American, and the other one wears leather.Fiction: Humor - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Romance - Chapters: 2 - Words: 3,423 - Reviews: 7 - Updated: 9-23-08 - Published: 8-30-0823. Smithsons, Jamesons, and the Hazy People Inbetween » reviewsJennie Smithson, one time ditz, prom queen and total Barbie, has made a Big Decision. She will be a math major and she will get one twelfth of one ounce of respect doing so, dammit. And those stupid fratboys, badboys, and all-other-boys won't mess her up.Fiction: Romance - Rated: T - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 2 - Words: 5,713 - Reviews: 11 - Updated: 3-26-08 - Published: 2-26-0824. Simple: I Just Like You reviewsI like that you always part your bangs over the middle of your right eye and they're such a boring brown. I like how you're always chewing on that pen, holding it like a cigarette. I just don't like you. I don't like you. I just wish I believed myself.Fiction: Romance - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,094 - Reviews: 24 - Published: 3-2-08 - Complete
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