Ficlets

I won’t be on as much for a while (sniff, sniff) because the school year just began again plus I’m scrambling to finish my thesis on top of grading mountains of papers. I’ll still drop in from time to time, though. :D

Reading and writing are my life, both in my profession as a Language Arts teacher and in my studies in English Lit. as a grad. student. I like many different literary genres, but I most love fairy tales, fantasy, and historical fiction.

When I’m not being a slave to my muse or grading papers, I’m either:
a.) on my DS (currently: FF3)
b.) reading the Twilight series for the umpteenth time
c.) watching “Ghost Hunters” (shivers)
d.) all of the above.

I’m a proud member of the League of Awesomeness, and I strive to be as active in my commenting as I am in my ficleting. To learn more about LoA, please visit THX 0477’s profile at: http://ficlets.com/authors/thx_0477

And to see the list of all-star authors (of which I am now one, yay! :p), go here:
http://ficlets.com/authors

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A Sampling of My Wares

Collaborations:
1. There’s Something About Jodi: 25398
-Working with thebetweenspace and uselessness on this (completed).

2. Debut: 28741
- Working with THX 0477 on this (ongoing).

3. The Idiot’s Guide to Dating: 30287
- Working with thebetweenspace on this (ongoing).

4. Death and the City: 37683
- Working with Eckhouse, SKermitgorf, Laine P. Grey, and whoever else wants to join! (ongoing).

Flying Solo:
1. Emily & Sebastian: 24549 (completed)

2. Henry’s Wives: 22566 (completed)

3. Epilogue: Breaking Dawn: 36233 (completed)

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I ♥ comments! Please feel free to provide comments and/or critique my writing. I welcome any chance to improve and grow as a writer. In addition, I don’t mind at all if you want to prequel/sequel any of my ficlets. If anything I would love the chance to collaborate with you. Though if you do prequel/sequel any of my ficlets, please write me a note so that I can read it!

If you’re going to take the time to rate a ficlet, please take the time to provide a comment. I welcome both your ratings and comments! =)

Favorite quotes
“My heart is like the ocean/ It gets in the way.”
- Tori Amos

“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.” -Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Writers I admire
Poetry: Sylvia Plath, e. e. cummings, Ezra Pound, T.S. Elliot, Anne Sexton, Pablo Neruda, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez.

Fiction: Michael Ondaatje, Isabel Allende, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Frank McCourt, Amy Tan, Jhumpa Lahiri, Gregory Macguire, Stephenie Meyer, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, Orson Scott Card, Paolo Coelho, Patricia Veryan, Toni Morrison, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Oscar Wilde.

Nonfiction: Diane Ackerman, Anthony Bourdain, Joan Didion, Alice Walker (though her fiction rocks, too).

What I’m currently reading
The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver.

What I can’t stop re-reading
The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer
(Oh yeah, it’s an obsession. I even made my own website: http://thedangermagnet.blogspot.com)