One of my first memories is writing "novels" by hand as a little girl, silly little once-upon-a-time stories with horribly drawn illustrations, pieces of 8.5 by 11 paper stapled together unceremoniously. I don't know if I even still have them. They were terrible. But all dreams have to start somewhere, don't they?
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I love storytelling; I always have. I love the escapism, I love the creativity, I love the adventure - adventure, because writing is an adventure in every sense of the word - emotional, action-packed, sensitive, cynical, and everything in between. For me, it's a vivid escape into a place that feels larger-than-life, almost more real than reality. (I am, of course, also a lover of reading.)
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I may not ever publish my writing; but that's good enough for me. If this website ever connects me with another writer or book-lover, I'll be happy. And I'll continue to write my little worlds, even if only a select few of my friends and family ever read any of them.
a book is a dream you hold in your hand
(Neil Gaiman)
While some part of me still hopes I might manage to publish someday, my creative writing focus has, of late, been bent on the Dungeons & Dragons homebrew campaign I've been running for my friends. The setting is, in fact, directly from a manuscript I am simultaneously (slowly) working on. If you're curious to see that, you can find the campaign notes on Obsidian Portal.
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I've included some of my favorite works of fiction below; I do believe a person's favorite books says a lot about them as a person. (Also, I hope anyone who sees this considers giving these wonderful authors a read.) If you see any that resonate with you, drop me a line on Goodreads!
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some of my favorite fiction:
The Windup Girl (Paolo Bacigalupi)
The Immortalists (Chloe Benjamin)
Dark Matter (Blake Crouch)
All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
The Girl on the Train (Paula Hawkins)
Last Night in Montreal and Station Eleven (Emily St. John Mandel)
The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)
The Stormlight Archive series (Brandon Sanderson)
anything V.E.Schwab
The Lying Game and The Woman in Cabin 10 (Ruth Ware)
The Martian and Project Hail Mary (Andy Weir)