This is me.
Welcome to the insanity.
Who am I?
A twenty one year old INTP with stars in her eyes, her head in the clouds, and her feet firmly planted in the ground. A military
brat and TCK (third culture kid), she's moved so much, home will forever be Foz do Iguacu in Brasil, simply because that's
the only place she's lived more than five years in. Reading is her first love and writing is her passion. She's a bit of a
paradox, not really fitting into any particular stereotype, but preferring to take a little bit of everywhere she's been and
everything she enjoys and mix it together in a wonderful amalgam that she calls her life. Her life can be best summed up in
this quote, "I saw a star, I reached for it. I missed. So I accepted the sky." -Scott Fortini
Magic and Writing and Why I Do It
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good
madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks
you're wonderful, and don't forget to make some art -- write or draw or
build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the
next year, you surprise yourself.
~ Neil Gaiman
Magic, Dreams, and Good Madness...
That's from a Neil Gaiman quote.
Magic is reading and writing and that amazing sensation when you get sucked into a novel or fic, sitting spellbound as you
dive into imaginary worlds that sometimes seem to you as being more real than your own world. Magic is sitting with pen and
paper or in front of the computer and watching as the ideas, daydreams, and specters of imagination solidify and become nearly
tangible as they flow from your brain onto paper/word processor. It's watching a character develop from a brief fragment of
your mind into a living, almost breathing person, independent, with concrete personalities of their own. It's watching the
story develop and being swept away right alongside your characters, it's surprising even yourself with the plot twists and
turns. It's Magic, life encapsulated in a dream bubble, or indeed as the title states, "Good Madness."
To be a writer, to really be one is to be wildly, passionately, fabulously off-kilter in some way. I mean after all our classification
in the DM IV should read: Evil and Sadistic Paranoid Neurotic Schitzophrenic Masochist...aka Writer. How else would the cliffhanger
and other such beloved plot devices have to light?
*smile* Another less creepy, more poetic way to look at it would be to say that Authors/Writers channel life, hopes, dreams,
wishes, nightmares even, but most of all, they channel life. Pure and Simple (no matter what Mr. Wilde might say).
Why I Write
A friend of mine on one of the forums I subscribe to asked this question: Why do we do it? Why do we pour so much of ourselves
into writing? Many of us pour our souls into it; we plot and plan and edit and worry and stress ourselves over something we're
not necessarily *required* to do. It's not for extra credit or prestige, many of us aren't even trying to make a career out
of it.
So why do it? Why put all the effort and time into it?
So after pondering this over, I finally came up with an answer:
In my post above, I spoke about Magic and Good Madness. Writing for me is just that. Magic. Something wonderful and inexplicable
and indescribable. Writing fulfills me in a way that very few other things can. That's why I do it.
And at the risk of sounding cliche, I write because it's part of who I am. I could no sooner stop writing (or dreaming) then
I could stop breathing. I write on and about everything... A interesting thought occurs to me and i'll write it down so I
don't lose it. Happy times, sad times, I'll write about those, sometimes after writing down what happened and how you felt
about it, you find yourself with a new perspective on the matter, better able to think things through and understand the other
side of things. I also write to get the plot bunnies out of my head before they drive me insane. Plot bunnies are worse nags
than the School Nazi on a rampage. But mostly I write because it relaxes me and because there's this driving need in me to
share the stories that come out of my mind, to get these characters and scenes out of my head and onto paper.
To sum up, I leave you with this quote by Roald Dahl who states, 'And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world
around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will
never find it.'
I've found that magic and I've discovered some of those secrets and that is why I write.
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Favorite Stuff
For my weird and random favorites
Favorite Books
TV Shows I Adore
Burn Notice
Babylon 5
Coupling
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Supernatural
The Dresden Files
Battlestar Galactica
BBC Robin Hood
Doctor Who
Torchwood
Foyle's War
Blackadder
Red Dwarf
Firefly
Monty Python and the Flying Circus
Roswell
Rome
The Tudors
Farscape
Mission Impossible
Favorite Films
The Seeker - The Dark is Rising
The Princess Bride
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
the Thirteenth Warrior
Pan's Labyrinth
Lord of the Rings(extended versions)
Star Wars III, IV, V, VI
Dune Miniseries
Die Hard
Die Hard II
Die Hard with a Vengeance
Live Free and Die Hard
Stardust
Serenity
Braveheart
Rob Roy
The Guns of Navarone
The Longest Day
Battle of the Bulge
U-571
The Hunt For Red October
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
Othello
Henry V
V For Vendetta
The Rock
King Arthur
Persuasion
Sense and Sensibility
Transformers
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