![]() Author has written 3 stories for General, Love, and General. Things you should know: I am a loner who has learned to socialize. However, I still have no problem being alone owing to the fact that I am DEFINITELY a daydreamer. Leave me alone someplace and I would be lost inside my head in a matter of seconds. I'm definitely snarky and sarcastic. "If you don't want a sarcastic answer, don't ask me stupid questions." I don't smile, I grin. I love a good laugh. Preferably over puns and witty and/or snarky comebacks, or even mindless bantering. But I'm not above slapstick, especially if I'm in a mood to rest/burn a few brain cells. :D I read a lot. When it comes to Fantasy, it's JRR Tolkien, David and Leigh Eddings, Mercedes Lackey, with some JK Rowling and Rick Riordan thrown in the mix. Vampire fiction? It's Rice, not Meyer, all the way. I also read (and sometimes watch) Naruto, Bleach, Katekyo Hitman Reborn, Nurarihyon no Mago, Mahou Sensei Negima and other manga. I am not an otaku. Yet. :D TV? Charmed, Will and Grace, Bewitched (see a pattern here? all completed series? :D ), Phineas and Ferb (what, I'm friends with my inner child, get over it), MythBusters, lots of NatGeo and Discovery, and whatever else looks interesting when I'm channel surfing. :D I will be posting mostly poetry -- some crappy, others passable. I'm still trying to chase down the stories that are currently running around in my head. And oh, before I forget, if I review your story you can be sure there's going to be some comment or another about grammatical and typographical errors in there. [call me a Grammar Nazi if you want]. Also, I got this one from one of the other people here. I fit a lot of things on this list. haha YOU KNOW YOU'RE AN AUTHOR IF... Bolded ones apply to me :D You talk to yourself a lot. (e.g. 'What should Tai say if he woke up and saw he was in Sora's body...?') You talk to yourself about talking to yourself. (e.g. 'Why do I constantly ask myself random things?') When you talk to yourself you often talk to yourself like you're talking to someone else. (e.g. 'Have you ever noticed that deliver could mean removing someone's liver?') After uttering a profound piece of wisdom like that above, you stare at the cookie in your hand with awe and say, 'Holy crap, this stuff is great for sugar highs...' You live off of sugar and caffeine (the two greatest things ever discovered!) No matter where you are in a room you never have to get up to find a pen/pencil and paper. Your friends and family think that you have carpal tunnel syndrome. People think you have A.D.D. You think it'd be cool to have A.D.D. You constantly start talking in third person, present or past tense. You start thinking about making lists like this and start giggling for no "apparent" reason Your friends stopped looking at you funny for no apparent reason a loooooong time ago. You failed English 101 You would rather talk to the voices in your head than the person sitting next to you. You know the research librarian’s office, cell, and home phone numbers but can’t remember your own. Some of the letters on your keyboard are completely worn off. You would rather write than go out. Your/you’re and their/there/they’re errors send you into an apoplectic fit. You get cranky if you don’t get to write. You’ve ever said, “The voices are getting louder; I must go write.” When talking with others, you mentally edit their dialogue and compose tags and beats. You’ve heard/seen something and thought, 'I need to write that down.' You’ve ever written a scene, outline, synopsis, or character sketch on a restaurant napkin . . . and it wasn’t a paper napkin. You wake up in the middle of the night and scramble for the pen and paper you keep next to your bed to write down a scene to make the voices be quiet so you can get some sleep. You end an argument with your boyfriend/girlfriend by saying, “Oh, wait, I have to write this down–this is the perfect conflict for my characters! Now, repeat what you just yelled.” Getting the scene finished is more important than food, coffee, or the bathroom. You have a momentary reality lapse and mention your characters’ situation as a prayer request in Sunday school. A blank wall becomes the screen where the scene you’re writing takes place right in front of your eyes. The easiest way for you to deal with conflict is to go home and write it into your story. You purposely eavesdrop when out in public. At parties, your method of making conversation is to discover people in the room with interesting occupations (preferably your hero’s or heroine’s) so you can conduct research. You listen to the writer’s commentary on every DVD so that you can analyze his/her writing process. You enjoy reading mostly so you can analyze the author's writing style and use it to work on your own style. You have a favorite line from every movie you’ve seen. You'd rather talk to your characters than the people in the room. You can’t write because you’re mad at one of your characters. You argue with said character (and even lose sometimes). You wake up at 3:00am with an idea for a plot and immediately grab a pencil and paper, and rather than go back to sleep you stay up the rest of the night fleshing out your plot and developing characters. Then you stay so focused on it that you don't feel your lack of sleep until the following morning. You have a folder on your computer labeled “Ideas.” Some of the files within this folder have only one or two words or sentences and while they made perfect sense fifteen years ago, between the software changes in that period of time garbling half the words and your own faulty memory, you have no idea what it means or where you were going with it. But you keep it anyway because you never know, you might remember it eventually. All for now... we'll get into details as we go along... enjoy! :D |