Falcons_Honour

I've noticed that the more I exercise my imagination and my love for fiction, my fascination with the supernatural bleeds through. I am quite captivated by ghosts, gods, witches, and the gifted humans that dare interact with them - pretty certain that all began in my childhood.

When I was twelve, my family moved to a house near what the locals called "the canal", which of course was just a creek down past the railroad tracks. The scenery there was unbelievably beautiful. Trees canopied a thin sliver of ice cold water that dribbled over red rock and bits of quartz, and there was an ancient looking wooden bridge that crossed overhead. Regardless of what time of day we made the trek to visit "the canal", we left daylight behind and found ourselves in cool, eerie shadows. I discovered on my second visit, since I got there just moments before all the neighborhood kids, that frogs and crickets weren't the only inhabitants waiting for us.

There I was, all alone, sweaty and panting from my run to beat everyone there, and as soon as I entered the shadows the voices began to speak to me. In whispers. Thousands of whispering voices circled around me. Prickly little fingers touched my spine, and the damp blonde hair on the crown of my head stood straight up.

The experience couldn't have lasted more than sixty seconds. My neighbors came barreling in, giggling and shouting, and it was over. My hair went back to where it was supposed to be, and I realized I was holding my breath.

My childhood friends liked roller coasters. They became adrenaline junkies, couldn't get enough of that thrill when earth and metal dropped away and there was nothing but sky and extreme fear blasting through their hearts. I went to the canal alone whenever I got the chance.

Tonight my darlings, I'd like to introduce you to someone with a healthy dose of supe love ;) I give you Falcons_Honour!

Bio:

My name is Zof, or Zee, although I also answer to Falcon, and I can usually be found over on falcons_honour (my personal journal) or falcons_legion (my writing haunt). I joined the Flame in August of 2009, and took part in my first competition in the September. The feedback and encouragement that I've received since has been amazing. At first, I wasn't sure that I'd have the tenacity to stick around, but I've definitely found somewhere to call my writing home. Although I haven't written for a couple of months now due to university end-of-term stress, I check in regularly and I love reading others' submissions.

I'm twenty-one and a full-time University student, reading English Language & Linguistics with Education at a relatively respectable institution in the north-east of England. My career path of choice would be lecturing in Linguistics, but if I'm honest, that'd just be something to put on my tax return -- given the choice and the opportunity, I'd prefer to be an author.

I live with my girlfriend and her mum (don't ask!), plus a chihuahua and a cat who recently had three kittens. We named them Seamus, Zelazny and Harper. You get a couple of hundred kudos points if you can pick out where the kittens' names came from. :P I also have an elkhound, Diefenbaker, who currently has to live with my mum due to being large and hairy and this being a very, very clean house. I miss having him around, but I do get to see him every weekend.

Although I can't remember a time that I haven't been 'a writer' (albeit a very bad one at times), just three or four years ago I considered myself much more of 'an artist' than 'an author'. Unfortunately, terminal art block struck me down some time ago, and I started to pay more attention to my writing. I'm only just starting to get back into creating art now, but I realised recently that, in my own mind, I am 'a writer' now and no longer an artist. That being said, participating in B_F has helped me with that too -- I've taken to illustrating some of my pieces, just because I feel like it!

Apart from writing and drawing, I love to read (I'm rereading 'Wicked' at the moment, and simultaneously attempting to bludgeon an in-road into Nietzsche's 'Beyond Good and Evil' and Ayn Rand's 'The Fountainhead' -- I have an awful tendency to pick up two or three books at a time), and I've recently started making maille and beaded jewellery too. I haven't managed to combine beading with maille yet, but give it time and I'll probably at least try it...

I've suffered with depression for most of my life, and writing is a great escape for me. It's not just writing, either; I love discussing the craft, my own work and others', and I'm always happy to chat about the process or the product. I'm far from expert and I might never be a pro, but writing is my favourite thing to do with my spare time and one of the things I love most about the B_F community is the sense of camaraderie between writers, and the discussions that spring up.

As a bi-gendered, bisexual individual, I find that a lot of what I write comes up somewhere in the general region of 'LGBT fiction', but I don't consider myself a 'queer writer'. I write urban fantasy, some steampunk and some...thing that's somewhere between high fantasy and horror, involving some very non-sparkly vampires. The main character of that one has been kicking back in my head for seven or eight years now, and he's become so much a part of me that he'll probably get quite vocally annoyed if I don't get around to writing the novel at some point.

The Chosen Piece:

Now, having told you I write urban fantasy and all of that, I'm going to completely confuse you by making this my feature. It's got non-sparkly vampires and a bit of blood, I should warn you. I chose this piece partly because it was both incredibly fun and strangely cathartic to write, and partly because I'm not quite yet over the absolutely amazing edit I received from toxic_apiaceae . It's a small part from a much larger world -- in fact, I'm determined to write a full first draft of the entire novel in 2010 -- and Tox's incredible encouragement and suggestions were hugely helpful, not only as an edit of the piece itself, but also in finding out how a complete outsider views the characters I love so much. I suppose that's just one more good reason to love it here.

The Link:
http://falcons-legion.livejournal.com/2212.html

 

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