Maybe I should explain who I am. Would that help? So you're not guessing my gender/sexual orientation/experience (read that how you will...)/genre/life goals/history.
Or maybe you should be guessing those things. Maybe this is a giant lie. Will you ever know?
Oh, the mask of the internet.
Penname: Miles Behn.
Given name: Emily.
Gender: Female.
Location: Born in Western New York.
Current Residence: Twin Cities.
Craft: Writing.
More Specifically: Fiction, Nonfiction.
Even More Specifically: Exploring genres at this point in terms of fiction: young adult, fantasy, science fiction, realistic fiction, post-modernism.
Current Project: In the process of editing my first novel (a young adult fantasy series [I just damned myself to Twilight references, didn't I?]); currently taking a class in nonfiction prose; writing numerous word vomit projects on the side.
Farthest a Piece Has Gotten: First draft completed of a short novel, currently editing. A handful of short pieces published in small (very small) literary magazines.
Influences: Too many.
Modern Writers I Respect: Don DeLillo, John Green, Anne Lamott, Annie Dillard, more of which I can't currently think (that always happens).
Classic Writers I Respect/Desire to Be: William Faulkner, C.S. Lewis, Albert Camus, Kurt Vonnegut, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Oscar Wilde, more of which I can't currently think.
What I Write With: Coffee, hunger, and music.
The Role of the Author: I'm not going to tell you about a piece. It should speak for itself. If it doesn't, it's not a good piece.
So. It is real or fake? Am I this strange melange of pieces crushed together in a survey?
You'll find more on the way. It'll be in the form of word vomit, I'm pretty damn sure.
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2 comments:
I might disagree with the "role of the author" bit, but only because I love to talk about the meaning of a story I wrote, or at least what it means to me. That's the thing about writing, though, in a fictional world the possibilities are endless; those endless possibilities thus cross over to reality and someone creates a parallel universe of your world in their heads. They can then make your story mean anything. So this new book you wrote will only exist in your head, and a "parallel world" of your book will exist in someone else's head who reads it.
Anyway, I enjoy learning, especially about people...especially when they're interesting. So keep it up!
if it helps at all, i didnt think of Twilight until you said it. i actually have read a fair amount of young adult fantasy stuff, it tends to be easy and less encumbered by the drive to be taken seriously as literature. that lets it be just enjoyable and fun. for as little as i get to read these days, im usually just looking for something fun.
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