About me
I am the middle child of four, my oldest brothers, four years older thane me, are twins and I also have a younger brother. I have a half-sister somewhere in Wisconsin (last I heard anyway) but we have never met.
Inspiration
One of my greatest role models is my oldest brother. He planned to begin service in the Army after having served in the national guard since he was old enough to enlist when still in high school. A medic, he loved helping people and also worked for our local ambulance service. All that was lost when he was paralyzed from the neck down in a car accident. A lot of people would have given up, but my brother went on to attend college and graduated magna cum laude with a degree in psychology.
My other role model was my mother Gloria. She was a single parent long before being a single parent was en vogue, before it was socially acceptable in fact. Instead of wasting her life on welfare she worked her butt off, holding a job and going to school to become a nurse. I lost my mom in 2002 and I still miss her to this day. I guess I just will until the day we meet again in heaven.
I am the middle child of four, my oldest brothers, four years older thane me, are twins and I also have a younger brother. I have a half-sister somewhere in Wisconsin (last I heard anyway) but we have never met.
Inspiration
One of my greatest role models is my oldest brother. He planned to begin service in the Army after having served in the national guard since he was old enough to enlist when still in high school. A medic, he loved helping people and also worked for our local ambulance service. All that was lost when he was paralyzed from the neck down in a car accident. A lot of people would have given up, but my brother went on to attend college and graduated magna cum laude with a degree in psychology.
My other role model was my mother Gloria. She was a single parent long before being a single parent was en vogue, before it was socially acceptable in fact. Instead of wasting her life on welfare she worked her butt off, holding a job and going to school to become a nurse. I lost my mom in 2002 and I still miss her to this day. I guess I just will until the day we meet again in heaven.
An avid reader, I have wanted to be a writer since I was a teenager. I was influenced by amazing writers like Margaret Mitchell, S.E. Hinton, and Charles Dickens. I wrote my first major writing project when I was a senior in high school (when I was suppose to be doing my work in a job experience class called Model Office where we ran a mock business in the fashion industry lol) I was thrilled when my classmates got caught up in the story and worked on it for the entire school year, releasing new chapters as I finished them...until I got caught in the spring and had to quit. I did eventually finish the story but it was lost in one of the many moves from city to city that were part of journey to discover myself in my early twenties.
When I was twenty-four however I gave up the journey in exchange for marriage. Motherhood came shortly after, followed even quicker by single parenthood. It's been mostlyjust my daughter and I for the past almost seventeen years. I dated some, lived with an abusive asshole for a year, and eventually found happiness with the man I had loved since I was seventeen. Unfortunately, my drinking and his drug use got in the way and we quickly parted ways. I still consider that the greatest heartbreak of my life. He was my best friend and after our break-up things never returned to normal. We haven't spoken since 1997 and I still miss him to this day.
With the popularity of computers however I have been able to rediscover my first love...the written word.
I strive in my writing to be more than a writer...I long to be a storyteller. Any fool can sit down and put words on paper and call it a story...just look at all the morons on fanfiction.net would can't write their way out of a wet paper bag. Idiots who write crap and call it sexy, like incest yaoi...then call it cute little names like inucest, twincest, or elriccest to disguise it for what it really is...crap. A couple years ago I actually removed my works from Mediaminer because of the extremely high ratio of that kind of garbage in comparision with stories written by those with true talent.
I think it is important for Fanfiction writers to protect the characters we are borrowing. I feel
that it is the height of disrespect to take another writers characters and change them into some-
thing that the original author would be disgusted by. I admit that I write sex scenes...but NEVER would I lower myself to writing that disgusting crap known as Porn Without Plot.
I love words, I love to play with words and believe them to be the most powerful tool known to man. What other tool can be used to make people laugh, or cry, or feel? Whatelse can take you on a wild rollercoaster ride without your feet ever leaving the relative safety of terra firm?
When I was twenty-four however I gave up the journey in exchange for marriage. Motherhood came shortly after, followed even quicker by single parenthood. It's been mostlyjust my daughter and I for the past almost seventeen years. I dated some, lived with an abusive asshole for a year, and eventually found happiness with the man I had loved since I was seventeen. Unfortunately, my drinking and his drug use got in the way and we quickly parted ways. I still consider that the greatest heartbreak of my life. He was my best friend and after our break-up things never returned to normal. We haven't spoken since 1997 and I still miss him to this day.
With the popularity of computers however I have been able to rediscover my first love...the written word.
I strive in my writing to be more than a writer...I long to be a storyteller. Any fool can sit down and put words on paper and call it a story...just look at all the morons on fanfiction.net would can't write their way out of a wet paper bag. Idiots who write crap and call it sexy, like incest yaoi...then call it cute little names like inucest, twincest, or elriccest to disguise it for what it really is...crap. A couple years ago I actually removed my works from Mediaminer because of the extremely high ratio of that kind of garbage in comparision with stories written by those with true talent.
I think it is important for Fanfiction writers to protect the characters we are borrowing. I feel
that it is the height of disrespect to take another writers characters and change them into some-
thing that the original author would be disgusted by. I admit that I write sex scenes...but NEVER would I lower myself to writing that disgusting crap known as Porn Without Plot.
I love words, I love to play with words and believe them to be the most powerful tool known to man. What other tool can be used to make people laugh, or cry, or feel? Whatelse can take you on a wild rollercoaster ride without your feet ever leaving the relative safety of terra firm?
