I started this site because I wanted people to read what some people call "my gift." Then I added the Contact Me so you guys could send me your feedback. Well believe me, I got a lot of it!  It rocks, yet it sucks because there is so many of you with so many of the same questions. As a result, my "personal asst." (she's really one of my best friends but helps me with my writing and crap), Shannon and I are constantly answering the same questions over and over and over and over and well you get the point. So I made this little FAQ section unit sort of thing so Shannon and I wouldn't have to answer the same questions over and over, etc. Enjoy it and get your questions answered (if your question isn't on here, send it to me via email). Oh and some of these are pretty much directly from an email or a chain of emails so that's some groups of questions seem like an interview sort of thing. Enjoy!!!

Q: Where do you get your ideas for your stories?

A: Let's put it this way: it depends on the story. There is a story to how I developed the idea for every piece of writing I write. Here's a list for you:

New York Relations (also known as "NYR"): Two of my best friends (Nicole and David a.k.a Luna and Zippy [and yes those are their real nicknames]) and I plan to move to New York after we graduate. This story is pretty much what we want to happen there (except the part about Nicole (Luna) getting hurt and the part about me going to jail and all that tragic crap). Of course there is probably no way I am going to become Elijah Wood's girlfriend (damn...) and Nicole is never going to become Billy Boyd's girlfriend and David, no matter how hot he is, is never going to become Liv Tyler's boyfriend. So in a way, this is just some sick little fantasy thing that I got the idea from chorus (the first part of the story is half true. Email me for details if you want them)

Stable Girl Series: The first Stable Girl story came from an idea my mind wandered into when I was watching the Parent Trap with my little cousins. Twins = the question "why isn't one of them an angel and the other one Satan?" = they should be that way = it would be better = what if one of them liked a guy? = what if the other one liked him too?. And so Stable Girl was born. For some help I went to www.elitelit.com for a story starter because I was having trouble getting a setting and how I was going to put it together and all of that (damn writers block to hell, I tell you!!!).

Moonlight Fae: I got the idea for moonlight fae from the fairie pictures above my bed, a book I had read about fairies (The Fairies by Suza Scalora) and three AFI songs I am infatuated with ("Silver & Cold" "The Leaving Song" and a hidden track behind "...But Home is Nowhere" that has a piano playing single notes and people speaking its really cool.) I was just laying on my bed, listening to AFI, facing my wall with my fairy pictures on it, and looking at The Fairies when the idea just popped into my head randomly. It started out as a poem then I turned it into a story. The poem is the first part of the story, the part where she turns into a fae and then blows fairy dust at Daren.

Lesigenet: The Andromedian Earth: Lesigenet came to my mind when I was reading an astronomy book (Travellers in Space and Time by Patrick Moore) and in the first chapter Moore talked about the nearest, major galaxy, Andromedia. He explained how far away it is and blah blah blah. Here's some stuff from it:

"Suppose we give our imagination full rein, and transfer ourselves to a planet inside the Spiral [Andromedia]; what can we expect to see if we look in the direction of the system which contains our own Sun?"

It goes on imaginatively about an Andromedian visiting the Milky Way to explore our sun and it discovers all of the planets and their moons but they just pass by them. When they pass Earth, the transmissions on their space ship go haywire.

Q: Wow. That is a lot of different ways to get ideas. Do you have anything you're working on now that you're not sharing with the rest of the world?

A: Not at the moment. I have poems that I've written but they are either too  personal for me to share or I don't like them.  I am working on my diary too. Does that count since I want to get it published when I'm done? I don't think I'll be starting any more stories until I finish at least one of the stories I already started. Hopefully I'll have enough time, energy and patience to do so.

Q: Seems like you're under a lot of pressure. Does it ever get stressful for you?

A: Yes and no. I get stressed when I can't access my computer (either from grounding or because my computer is being a jerk or my dear mom is on and won't get off) and when I have writer's block. That's it. I don't get stressed about writing so many stories at the same time because a) I love it b) It keeps me going and c) I read at least 4 books (and I mean like NOVELS) at a time so it's not very stressful to keep up and I never get mixed up or confused.

Q: If you could have one (logical) thing in the world what would it be and why?

A: Hmm...there's a number of things I would want. I would probably want one of my stories published into a book the most because I've always wanted that to happen. There's lots of other things but right now, that's what I want.

Q: When did you first start writing?

A: I first started writing when I was about four or five, after I started reading. I got so caught up in books that I wanted to write my own so I started writing alternate stories of movies I'd seen (Lion King, Little Mermaid, Horse Whisperer, etc.). I don't have them any more because as soon as I would write them I would crumple them up and throw them away because I didn't think they were good enough to keep. When I started school, my teacher would make us write in journals and make us write what was happening at the moment in our lives. Instead of doing this, I was always writing stories in my journal (I got in trouble so much that I ended up starting a new journal). I always thought my stories weren't good enough. I sometimes still do but I keep them anyway just so I can compare and work harder to do better.

Q: What would you say your favorite story is (that you wrote, I mean) and why?

A: I like all of my stories very much but my favorite I would have to say would be either Moonlight Fae or Lesigenet: the Andromedian Earth because I get to create other worlds and make it up as I go. Not much research and very imaginative.

Q: Um, research?

A: What? You didn't think writing was all about making everything up, did you? Most of the stuff in New York Relations and Stable Girl are true and I mean the streets and towns and stuff. There really is a 73 58th St. E in New York City. There really is a Missoula, Montana. The rest is pure fiction.

Q: Who is this Jordan guy in your shout outs?

A: Jordan was a very good friend of mine who died when I was eight. Don't ask me about it. It's painful...I don't mind talking about it, it just makes me depressed. Email me if you wanna know but I won't guarantee you'll get a response.

A: No I don't, but I'm currently interested in someone. Sorry, Sparky.

Q: Er...Sparky? Is that a character of one of your underground stories or something?

A: :Laughs: No. My friend Shannon calls everyone "Sparky" and got me saying it. I used to say "Turbo" before that. Don't worry it's a good thing. And I don't have any "underground stories." Just poems.