Welcome to Gaia! ::

All right, I'll make the first post. I'm Aya, Celsie, or whichever mule account I'm on, I suppose. Celsie seems easiest, as it's my primary username. I created the username, and I have an excessive amount of mules, which helped me to generate the funds for this guild.

I've been reading and therefore writing since six or seven years old. A second grade project was to write and illustrate our own book. While it was incredibly horrible, and no one besides VERY close friends will ever so much as look at it, I still have it, I'm still proud of it, and sentimental towards it.

I'm a graduate with an associate's degree, taking a year off to adjust to being married. I intend on studying creative writing (English) and education at university next fall, though I'm not sure if that will be in Oregon or Texas yet.

I have studied with Lidia Yuknavitch, met Chuck Pahluhniuk(bet you ten bucks he doesn't remember me), and corresponded with Jane Yolen.

The first series I got addicted to as a child was Madeleine L'engle's Murray series, starting with A Wrinkle in Time.

I have five or six writing projects that I attempt to work on at any given point. Parts of those will be revealed in the critiques sub forum when it's created.

I enjoy dancing, listening to music many people consider strange, and making movies run at my local theater.

I also suck at making gold. All right, I believe that's all for now. Sorry if it sounded stuck up, I just wanted to explain who I was.

Hmm, hi there~
I'm Mar, but you can just call me Schay. I'm eighteen and I'm starting senior year in HS in about two weeks. As such, I may or may not b***h a lot about college searching, so excuse me if I do. <,<;

I've been reading since I was about five; but I've only been reading in English since I was about seven, because English is my second language. I've been writing since I was eight.

I've met Patricia McCormick and Jordan Sonnenblick, and several NJ poets who have visited my school for a poetry festival.

Currently, my favorite book is "The Inferno" by Dante Alighieri; and I'm working my way through the rest of the 'Divine Comedy' as well.

Hmm... writing wise... I guess what I write can best be described as uber-angst, psychosis, and gore. My favorite subject seems to be children who are abused or young people with severe personality disorders. Honestly, lots of people find it disturbing, so if I ever share anything on here I'll make sure to put a warning up, I guess. I try my hand at fantasy, too; but that doesn't seem to work out, ever. >.<

Oh, and last year was the first time I actually got committed to NaNoWriMo. It was a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to this year's, as well. :3

Oh, I like putting younger children in traumatic conditions. In writing, of course, not in real life. Most of my MCs have some hideously painful childhoods... [and hate me for it.] When I write about them in their teenage years it's usually about them remembering these things. I don't know... In its simplest explanation, my writing is like a prose form of JTHM. I think this is because ultimately I want to describe the process of dissociation; I'm almost stupidly fascinated by the condition. Of course, I always end up taking lots of liberties with it. >.<

I do understand what you mean, though: Writing about young adults definitely offers a lot in terms of character development; you can do a lot of moral and just general growth with characters in this age group, that's just their nature.

I finished NaNo last year and I was so psyched. It was a little embarrasing. I still have the little certificate up on my wall and everything. I was all "Ohyeah, look at me, I'm so awesome for doing this." XD I got to write an article about it for my school newspaper, too, so that was cool. :3

And my first language is Russian; but at this point my command of English is much better. >.<


Oh and, just a note. I'm going on vacation for a week starting tomorrow; so I won't be posting anything. I'll try to get more active once I come back. School will start, so I'll have homework to avoid, lol.

Oh goody, an opportunity to ramble about myself!


I'm a selfcentered fourteen year old with a knack/curse of writing 'romantic comedies'. I don't do "dark" often, or at least stories revolving around gore/abuse because only whiny brats are featured in those. Who actually focuses on the negative all the time? Annoying characters, that's who. I will BITE someone who says comfortable lives are unrealistic.

Normally I write novella fanfictions but won't bother anyone here with those. I do some original short stories as well.

Also, I have a very short temper but I'm a compassionate person x]

Quick, random introduction before school. <3

I'm Namimon, but most usually call me Nami because it's easier. I started reading... when I learned to read. biggrin My favourite childhood author was Roald Dahl (BFG!) and I still enjoy some of his adult short stories.

I've also been writing ever since I learned to write, but my writing is usually scattered. I'll create the first few pages of a story, then it will sit on my computer for years. Sometimes upon rediscovery, I rewrite the first few pages after some brief inspiration, but it ends up the same way in the end.

My genre for reading is normally science fiction, but I started out with fantasy. Well, Xanth to be specific. razz But after Xanth, all other fantasy seemed boring. My stories usually have a fantasy setting, but I have a few sci-fi themes floating around in my head.

Writing, for me, is more exploring a theme or concept than telling a story. -shrug-

I also have a lot of trouble organizing my thoughts most of the time, so my stories are usually choppy. XD After a lot of revision, though, they start to be pretty decent. :3

Hey there, I am returned and all ready. I got a new idea in my head over vacation... it's mostly a little fantasy-esque one-shot.

Hello to imaprettyrainbow and Nami~ :3