User Profile

Hey there! I can never think of anything to write for profiles, so don't blame me.

Anyway, I suppose this, my first and very own Live Journal, shall be mainly for my Spork Room friends, so this bio should ideally be about me as a writer.

My interest in writing began as far back as elementary school. I was quite an imaginative little girl, and I always impressed my teachers with anything I did involving creativity. Making up stories or drawing pictures, I loved it all. But for the most part my Mary Sue centered daydreams largely stayed in my head until sixth grade, when I began my first independent long-term writing attempt. I'll be honest: it was crap. But this did nothing to hinder my love of stories; my writing mostly came in small snippets at a time, nothing ever exceeding a few pages. I'd make little stories out of my dreams, but nothing really ambitious. Well, I did try a longer story at one point, but it didn't last. In ninth grade I got good at writing poetry (once I learned that poems didn't actually need to rhyme), and then in tenth grade over spring break, my first serious novel attempt came through. I didn't intend it to turn out to be this big long project, but I just kept writing it. This was also the year I discovered NaNoWriMo. I did it unofficially with my novel in progress (unofficially because I knew you're not supposed to do it with WIPs, and also because I knew 50K was far out of my league at that time) and added about 8000 words. And I thought 5000 was ambitious.

I got two new novel ideas over Christmas break that year, and I continued my on and off writing patterns throughout the next year.

And then it was November again.

I had an Idea. It was a grand Idea, perfectly made for NaNo. This Idea would allow me to write whatever I wanted without any need for a plot. Its title was Plot Holes. The fabled Plot Holes. I wrote three and a half times more than what I expected to get that November. I know now should have aimed for the full 50K, because I so could have gotten it. Plot Holes remains my longest and favorite novel in the works, currently around-- 90K? I forget, but this idea was a stroke of genius. It has its kinks, but I'll keep writing it until it's done.

Last November, needless to say, was 50K or bust. I got my 50K, though the novel produced, titled The No Ones, could have been so much more. I do not forsee a rewrite, unfortunately.

Then I worked on a little something titled Antihero, a somewhat dark fantasy (darker than what I usually write anyway). I'm tentative to call it a novel, because I guess I'm afraid of longer works because I think I'll never finish them, which is true so far, and The No Ones doesn't count because I forced myself to finish it. But I'm taking a different approach with Antihero, doing extensive research and outlining beforehand, because I think this idea needs to be outlined first. It is currently on hiatus until further notice because of complicated reasons.

I tried to do NaNo again in April for April Fools and came up with an idea called Creativity Goes to Mars, with hopes that returning to something wonderfully pointless would carry me beyond all my expectations once again. Unfortunately this didn't exactly happen and I never finished it. It's a little over halfway to 50K.

And, oh look, November's coming up again. Without giving away too much, I'm calling it Please Recycle and the MC is some kid named Johnny Spleen. Yeah, it's another one of those weird ideas that's only funny if you're a writer, but I won't get into that as it would give away the plot.

So that's the gist of my writing history. As for me as a normal human, I'm a socially awkward college student with some fangirl tendancies toward various books or movies or animes.

I'm also a complete nerd, but you can call me Isi. :)

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