Me

         Those whose say they write only for themselves are liars, why else would they show their work to others and expect favorable opinions in return? Subsequently why do people who spend less than five minutes writing let's say a poem having never read a poem in their lives and never give a thought to improving the "poem" expect abounding praise as if they had spent years working on it?

     I believe that only those who take writing seriously, believe writing to be an art form, a craft, something to studied and learned and practiced can truly be called artists. Art is not just some thing you do whenever you feel like it, some emotional regurgitation to be forgotten once ejected. How else do you learn and improve?

     So why instead of drowning myself in the craft develop this site?

    Truthfully speaking, the idea to design and build my homepage came after a mind-warping,degenerating, exhaustive, and unavailing search through the unfathomable depths of insipid, paltry, surprisingly and though not intentionally, humorous, and, if not guarded against carefully, infectious writings that had forced me to adopt the conclusion that there was not within my cyber reach another's homepage of poetry and other writings that I really longed to spend time exploring or reading.

     Before plunging into this disillusioning activity (that is searching the web for quality writing) and after realizing that the internet could be useful in my desire to augment my just-discovered interest in writing, I had decided to see if I could find some other living being who saw writing in the same light I did--this was at first seen as an unfortunate bias, but is now an essential quality.

    Subsequently, the attitude of Well, if these people can build websites, it surely must not be as complicated (if at all) as I once believed it was was spawned. To add more fuel to this blaze (in other words), it was a kind of Show 'em how it's done mentality. However, before I even began to imagine a layout, I had decided that my words would be paramount. So despite how much I loved all the graphics I had seen in other's creations (and nothing else), I refused to have lovely pictures, images, applets, and other effects overshadowing my very reason for intiating this shockingly enjoyable and just slightly stressful project. Finally "Written Dissonance" was born.

My name is Jenn. Besides writing poetry and short stories, I also write essays in which if not on something literary, I mull over some philosophical, social, or religious problem that just won't let me sleep--Will it be the formation of my ethical circle, race, sex, or trying to understand why Christianity plagues me so? Who knows. Believe or not I'm one of those poetry writers who also loves reading poetry--Go figure, huh? Music? Yes, please, but only the good stuff. The likes of Rammstein and Jesus Jones will do. When I yank myself away from these activities, I play a video game or two, I watch the History or Discovery Channel or Law and Order.

I began writing in high school, but not enough to really take it seriously because drawing was then more important to me. I didn't take it up again until five years ago when I found myself doing well in and liking a creative writing class I had decided to enroll in on a whim.

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