*shy wave*
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storyamoryHi! I'm Brenna, also known as "Twisty" and "The Token (insert whatever everybody else isn't this time)".
I started reading really young, young enough that everybody thinks I'm lying when I tell me. My earliest influences were Thomas the Tank Engine, Cinderella, Babar and Rudyard Kipling, with a side of Madeline and whatever Shakespeare my mother couldn't get me to let go of. As a curly-headed moppet of eight, a chance encounter with Marion Zimmer Bradley convinced me I wanted to be a writer. I identify as a Hufflepuff and as a Beauxbatons, Harry-Potterverse-wise, though the fictional character I consider myself closest to being is Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables, etc.).
I may not be fond of the works in a certain world (Harry Potter and Kushiel's Dart, being a good example), but I latch on to settings easily. I'm too shy to write much fanfiction, but I am working on a piece of original fiction that wants to be a series. It's that "lovable world" thing, I guess.
I started reading really young, young enough that everybody thinks I'm lying when I tell me. My earliest influences were Thomas the Tank Engine, Cinderella, Babar and Rudyard Kipling, with a side of Madeline and whatever Shakespeare my mother couldn't get me to let go of. As a curly-headed moppet of eight, a chance encounter with Marion Zimmer Bradley convinced me I wanted to be a writer. I identify as a Hufflepuff and as a Beauxbatons, Harry-Potterverse-wise, though the fictional character I consider myself closest to being is Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables, etc.).
I may not be fond of the works in a certain world (Harry Potter and Kushiel's Dart, being a good example), but I latch on to settings easily. I'm too shy to write much fanfiction, but I am working on a piece of original fiction that wants to be a series. It's that "lovable world" thing, I guess.
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Date: 2009-05-24 03:08 am (UTC)I may not be fond of the works in a certain world (Harry Potter and Kushiel's Dart, being a good example), but I latch on to settings easily.
I can understand that, I think - I do tend to fixate more on stories and narratives most of the time, but sometimes I just fall completely in love with a world or setting and the actual story feels almost irrelevant...
Also, I re-read the Anne Shirley books recently, as it happens. :) Did you ever read the Emily series by the same author? I used to love those as a teenager.
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Date: 2009-06-08 04:02 am (UTC)About writing fanfiction, there's nothing to be shy about. Really, open a random page on fanfiction.net - you will probably not be able to do worse than that if you tried! (If you happen to stumble upon the diamond in the rough there, just click another one and you'll see what I mean.)