Announcements :
"My only problem with working towards a better me that it does, inevitably, eat up time where I could be RPing a half-dead were-cat or looking at illegal photos of Indian monuments." -Shen
Shen has a tendency to take over that which she thinks she has ability in, and thus took over the graphics and site design portion of DP! She's a picky editor and is far too comfortable writing about herself in the third person to be entirely healthy.
Been reading since:
I have a theory that I could read even before I couldn't. I could look at things and know their meaning, and I don't ever remember asking anyone to read something to me. That would mean that I learned to read in, say, preschool, but this is uncomfirmed. I know I could read by kindergarten. I am a life-long reader.
Been writing since:
7th grade. Prior to this time, writing was something I hated to do because my hand would hurt and pencil and paper was already too slow for me. Now I type. Aren't you lucky?
Religion:
None. I am an Athiest. I decided a while back that I am not an Agnostic, because even if there is some cosmic being, there's no way in hell I'm worshipping it. I'm not going to Hell because I don't believe in it. My physical body and energy will simply become part of the great cosmic flow once more. Thank you.
Political Affiliation:
Independent. I don't agree with Republicans most of the time and Democrats have turned out to be fucking spineless. I maintain my own beliefs and spit on this 'vote with the party' bussiness.
Preferred method(s) of government:
Democracy; Socialist capitalism. (They do it in Europe.)
Relationship with the Internet:
I adore it, and have high hopes for it, but I clearly need money in order to take advantage of it the way I want to. Don't complain about the ads on this page. Offer to donate money to me so I can pay to remove them.
Reccomended Reading:
Everything. Read books, newspapers, magazines, cereal boxes, random webpages- it's all educational in some way. If only because it reinforces correct spellings (usually).
Why She Writes:
A very wise man once said...
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it.Oh, look! It was Leo Rosten!
Lets put it this way. I fill my plate with websites, all of which I run for free, edit writing for free, came up with a religion that worships a pretzel, the expression "DAMN PENS!" came far too easily to me, and, oh yes, I designed a galaxy that looks like a platypus. ^__^
When not running webzines:
I run Democratic Dissidence, Role Play in online communities and via IM, follow politics, read voraciously, and somewhere in there, I get the time to write.
To finish, some quote, by someones who are not her. (Woohoo!)
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. -Oliver Herford
If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing. -Kingsley Amis
Novelists who go to psychiatrists are paying for what they should be paid for. -Unknown
I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown, and I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself. -Tom Stoppard
A poem is never finished. Only abandoned. -Paul Valery