Can't say I was ever a pony kind of girl I'm afraid, not even a unicorn kind of girl.

If you had a dragon around however...

 

Anyway, might have to add those 2 books to my amazon shopping list...

Been meaning to put more energy into my writing recently.

*pokes imagination with a stick to see if it's dead*

I began writing after spending afternoons at college reading Buffy the Vampire Slayer fanfiction.

I'd read so much of it, that my imagination reached critical mass and I had to write things down or my brain would explode.

 

A few years later I'm finally beginning to write my own stuff (sort of) based on vague concepts rather than pre-constructed worlds.

Fanfiction is the McDonalds of writing: it's already to go, there isn't much you can do with it except eat it.

You can maybe add a little of your originality by using your fries to eat your McFlurry (I know someone who does that) but for the most part it's just all done for you.

Writing at author level is killing your own cow, harvesting your own wheat, milling your own flour and baking you own bread, growing your own vegetables, making you own sauce and creating your own packaging (Though you can get an artist in to do that for you if you want to).

Once you're at the gym and eating healthily after realising how bad McFanfiction is for you, you don't tell people how you were raised on it.

I was a smart McFanfictioner as a kid - I wrote stuff for the fun of it - then never showed a soul.

^_^

Spreading inspiration wherever I go.

Make his life suck more... it's a plastic knife.

The god has a spork.

Stalemate...

lol

Disclaimer: I write for fun. I am not published - possibly never will be. Take anything I say with a pinch of salt, a shot of tequila and a squirt of lime - people tell me I'm hilarious when they're drunk.

My main character doesn't necessarily have to be likeable. I base them on my own personality (I have few enemies to be fair) and always write from a first person perspective.

It's hard not to connect with that.

It's rare I ask other people (who won't have my personality to base the character on/to artificially flesh it out) to proof read.

As an exercise I once wrote a story from an I perspective but gave no hints as to either of the 2 characters personalities and history except for the actions and thoughts of the then and now.

Turned into a short love-story.

 

Put that one on an anonymous blog page.