features:
and the best short story ever written: [link]
and the close second: [link]

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is holding a contest!! THE CONTEST IS NOW CLOSED AND JUDGING IS IN PROGRESS!!!!!

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1. What led you to write?
i actually have no idea. books are a big part of it, but i think i actually started at some point in junior high...my friends were all writing and i wanted to write too. so i started. my first few stories...em. woo mary sues. i grew out of it, though. thank the everything.

2. When did you start writing?
i think i said that above.

3. What does writing represent in your life?
....? i dunno.

4. Are you happy with your current style?
given that i have no idea what my style is? i guess.

5. Do you do editing?
yes. Earthaven is currently being beta-read, which is why there haven't been a lot of posts about it recently.

6. Do you read about writing (creative writing books, grammar books...)?
no. i've never seen how they can help.

7. Favourite genre?
tell you what. let's pretend there's a 'least' in front of 'favourite'. given that there now is a least in front of favorite, i hate mysteries and romances. and really, anything with hard-core sex in it. i have to close my eyes and skip past it.

8. Favourite author(s)?
Tolkien, for sure. followed by Diane Duane. then Rowling. then a *few* (*coughcough*) others.

9. Favourite book?
.................shit. um....The Lord of the Rings?

10. What do you prefer to write?
fantasy. a little sci-fi here and there. but mostly fantasy. it's gotten to the point where i have trouble writing non-fiction, actually. not that i mind.

11. Is there anything you can't write?
mysteries. have i mentioned that i hate them? well, that's not the reason. also, sex. i can't write sex.

12. What is the weirdest thing you have ever written?
weird to one is normal to another, so there is no weird and there is no normal, and all is well with the world.
but seriously? ...Counting i think.

13. Choose a topic: love, death, friendship. Now write a couple of lines about it.
i love death
and death loves me.

14. Do you think you have influences from any professional writer? If so, which ones?
Tolkien, i think...and Diane Duane.

15. Worst book you have read so far?
The Once and Future King. hands down.

16. Why is it so bad, in your opinion?
it made me feel like i was being talked down to. i hate that. readers have brains, you see.

17. Choose one of your characters and describe them in three words.
hmm...Evenstar Lucifer: bisexual, histrionic, sexshifter

18. Does your character feel ‘alive’?
yes. but then again, all my characters live in my head.

19. Could you kill this character?
Evenstar:
no. i couldn't kill him.

20. Do you hate any of your own characters?
any of *my* characters? um...well, i hate the White Demon and God.

21. Now, let's be honest. Every writer has their own favourite creation. What's your favourite story, out of everything you have written/planned to write? And character?
The Other Kind of Human and Earthaven tie for first.
character? um...i'm not biased. i love all of them.
All of Morea's characters: aw...

22. Have you ever abandoned an idea for a story? Why?
yes. several times. because they either sucked, my brain moved on to other things, my view on the universe changed since i wrote the story, or some combination of the three.

23. Have you ever deleted a whole piece of work? Why?
no.

24. And finally: make up a completely original character right now and describe them briefly. It doesn't even have to be human!
very well.
Severina Hellebore is a misguided vampiress has large orange eyes that seem to glow in the dark. Her red hair is really a set of quills that she can use as a weapon. She is short and has a voluptuous build. Her skin is light-colored, but the blood flowing beneath it actually seems to glow. She has claw-like fingernails and toenails. She can control the minds of her minions. If attacked with weapons made of silver, she will go into a coma. She susbists on human flesh and blood.
never said i couldn't use a random character generator, now did you? *smirk*

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31 Writing Prompts:

01. letter: [link]
02. sticks and stones: [link]
03. birthday: [link]
04. immortal: [link]
05. circus: [link]
06. abandoned: [link]
07. nosebleed: [link]
08. mother [or father, or both]
09. sunrise: [link]
10. distraction: [link]
11. habit: [link]
12. fuck: [link]
13. love: [link]
14. waste: [link]
15. skinny
16. eyes: [link]
17. white noise
18. impulse
19. addiction
20. desecrate: [link]
21. death: [link]
22. low
23. heartbeat: [link]
24. first kiss: [link]
25. tomorrow
26. sweet
27. fog [or mist]: [link]
28. can't
29. village
30. time
31. forget