Tangledwood
BIO:
Myself, in list form:
I have been writing since before the Backstreet Boys were in high fashion. If you rummage through my childhood house, you'll probably find that unintentionally hilarious story about frog princesses that I wrote when I was four. (In traditional Child Writer fashion, it's several folded pieces of paper stapled together to look like a book.)
On the internets (all of them), I go by smaur. Most of my writing winds up on tangledwood. I've been hangin' out with the cool kids of BF since September, and it's been working wonders on my writing productivity.
I am in film school (that excellent breeder of turtleneck-clad mustache-twirling stereotypes), which usually accounts for any sporadic absences here. At which point you can assume that somewhere in the world, I am drinking too much caffeine, staying up far past my bedtime, and hauling cameras or lights twice my size. (Last night, I had a dream I was carrying around a giant light. I wish it were a clever metaphor but it's probably just brain overload.)
I'm a girl (er, woman, whatever) and a POC (aka Person of Colour) which may not matter but it kind of does to me. When I was in my mid-teens, I realized I'd never written a character who WASN'T white, which was a little heart-wrenching because I'm not white. It made me stop and think about racial representation in fiction (which I'm sure is old hat to some and not to others) and how absurd it was that it had never even crossed my mind to write about a character who was from a similar cultural/racial (not that the two are mutually inclusive) background as myself. I'm trying to fix that now. Not just writing characters from my own background, but characters from various places; I think/hope it's made my writing more interesting and my characters more dynamic, as a happy side effect.
I have an alarming love for: comic books, IKEA furniture, pretending that I can paint (I can't), films (I suppose that one's a no-brainer), science fiction in all of its forms, HBO (the Wiiiiiire), lurking in bookstores like a weird lurker, pretending I write decent screenplays (I don't), sartorial choices (and the Sartorialist), pad thai, a laundry list of writers that include Rushdie & Atwood & Ondaatje & McCarthy & Chabon & Nabokov & Marquez & Ray Bradbury & William Gibson.
Feel free to badger me with questions or comments or baked goods; I am pretty friendly (especially when there are baked goods at stake).
The Chosen Piece:
Reverse-Umbilical - Every week, I promise myself that I won't start a story on the day it's due, and every week I fail. I wish I had more time with this one (I wish I had more time with all of them) but that's the way the cookie crumbles.
This one comes from a smattering of ideas that I've had on the back-burner for many years: Eve as a witch-woman, Eve as the scary lady on your street, Eve as a gangster, the little kid who is thrust into that world, SOULS.
The Link:
http://tangledwood.livejournal.com/22734.html
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