April Wilde

I've had that pen name for many years, now, and used to submit poetry to my school's literary magazine with it.

I've been writing since about fifth grade, and I'm 6 years out of high school, now. I've never finished a novel. I don't want to count my RL Stine-induced horrenous attempt, so I won't.

I don't ever know what to put on these things!

If anyone has any questions, I'll answer (almost) all of them. Please keep it decent! I'm a shy young woman.

Yay! So you like horror.

Who are your favorite authors?

Heya, Kel, and welcome! Don't worry about 'indecent' questions, though... most of the people on this site are quite a bit younger than you, and we keep it civil here.

I used to read a lot of horror, but that was back in Junior High school. It was mostly Caroline B. Cooney, RL Stine, Christopher Pike. Things like that.

Anymore, I read almost exclusively fantasy. Tamora Pierce is all right, but some of her stories rub me the wrong way.

Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo is cute.

I mostly read young adult novels because they're more raw. I sort of want to write for that age group, since I don't do a lot of explicit sex and gore in my writing. I just don't enjoy reading it. Never have.

Ah. Well, that's cool too!

So what kind of stuff do you actually write?

Fantasy! I've got my plot outlined for NaNo. And after sharing it a couple of times, I don't feel so afraid of doing so here. It's not like it hasn't been done before, yes?

I used to write a lot of beatnik poetry, and I'm sure I still good. I enjoy writing sestinas, too! I've only done two in my life, but they were great.

I've been writing more lately in preparation for NaNo, but before that, I was mainly drawing!

Is the "Wilde" in your psudonym inspired by Oscar Wilde?

Cool pen name! Mine is Brandon Gregory (by the way, nobody can steal that). Thats cool that you write fantasy, what type of fantasy?

~Aero

I dunno. I've never really read Oscar Wilde and you're the first one to mention it, Meep. It just kinda ... came out, I suppose. Who knows the minds of high school kids. Not I! Even when I was one!

Aero, I write just your generic fantasy, I guess. I've never finished anything, though, so I don't know if I can correctly categorize it. Elves and magic, and I don't even use guns in my stories. It's medieval fantasy.

I used to read Christopher Pike, I really ought to go and rediscover his work.

Oh, Christopher Pike. Good luck! haha. You'll discover that, many years after being totaly into that stuff, it's completely different, Myth!

I always thought The Midnight Club was pretty good.

I've read that, I believe. I'll have to look at my old middle school collection again.

Caroline B. Cooney. Didn't she write Goddess of Yesterday? I think so. Our teacher read that to us in sixth grade social studies, because it's about the Trojan War, and I've loved it ever since.

I can see you laughing. Stop it!

Hee hee. So yeah. Hmmm...do you have any pets?

3 cats! Coffee, Squee, Ozzy

2 dogs! Barleybear, Rosemary

What about you, Cassandra?