The name's Jane, I'm a student living between London and a tiny nowhere town in a place full of mountains and fields, who's just turned twenty.

I have a wild, and rather distracting imagination, which tends to overtake slightly more important aspects of life such as lectures and essays,

but I am extremely bad at writing down any of my ideas properly. This is something I'm working on... :S

My hobbies are watching films, preferably horror/creepy ones, (Pan's Labyrinth is one of my favourites), reading books by authors such as

Terry Pratchett, Stephen King and Andrzej Sapkowski, (although to be honest, I will try and read anything that's not pinned down)

and going for aimless walks around markets, museums and shops, which usually ends up in me spending money when I really,

really shouldn't be.

I also have an addiction to buying pens. It's getting slightly worrying. Despite this, I can never find a black fineliner when I need one...

Currently, the only things I've written are drabbles, and numerous, but very different beginnings to the same story,

but hopefully that is going to start changing...

And I'll probably change this bio around later. It's a bit lame atm.

Films:

I'm currently studying film at uni, so this is a big, big interest for me. I'm currently banned from HMV, Zavvi, and the DVD section in Morrisson's, as I keep spending money I don't have on lots of cheap films.

I'm a sucker for supernatural, sci-fi and horror types, and more than a healthy amount of comic book adaptations. My love of horror comes, perversely, from an intense squeamishness (i've been known to faint over the discussion of hamstrings and ligaments tearing, and realised I had to quit Biology A level when the lesson on blood vessels left me pale, dizzy and nauseous), and my interest in sci-fi is 100 my dad's influence. He let me watch Blade Runner when i was about twelve, and that was it.

I'm a big fan of anything Tim Burton, and while I have yet to muster the stomach to sit through Sweeny Todd, I do have a friend who likes to sing all the songs while walking around Liverpool St at 1 in the morning. Anyway...

Books:

I've recently discovered Angela Carter, and adore her work. I'm simply terrible about reading books all the way through, which is really bad, I know, but I just get bored and move on without realising it.

Music:

Anything. Literally anything - from Vivaldi to System of a Down. So long as it's interesting, in tune, and/or singalongable to, I'll listen to it happily. Except Coldplay and all their clones. I can listen to one song of theirs per week without trying to tear my hair out, but that's it.

TV:

I don't really like watching TV. I tend to get into most shows long after they were on, so that I can watch them, at speed, in my own time. Having to wait a week between episodes gets far too frustrating for me, especially as I don't have cable, or sky, or anything apart from three and a half measly channels. The staple favorites are Buffy, Friends, Dexter, Coupling, Green Wing, Scrubs, Cold Feet and once upon a time, Supernatural.

I'm currently trying to work out how to get my ideas down into words that actually classify as a story, rather than just outlining a plan, but I'm doing a lot of running around in circles, as I change my mind about things shockingly regularly.

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