May I introduce...me!

Hello everyone!

I thought I should be polite and introduce myself before I start posting things all over the place, so here I am.

Depending on how interested you are, there is loads or nothing to tell. I'll try not to strain you too much and keep it short.
Well, I am a Swiss Girl who found her way to beautiful England three years ago and I absolutely love it here.
I started writing when I was very small (You all know those stories about fluffy animals that meet up, become friends and then embark on really unadventurous adventures), but currently my writing output is very small. Mostly, rather crappy short-stories and some not quite as crappy essays are produced. So I am a writer who does not write much, really.
I make the lack of writing up with loads of reading though. I am positively obsessed with Borges, Kundera and Oscar Wilde. And John Keats. In fact, I can recite so many of Keats's poems that even my English teacher thought I'm creepy.
I like literature, science, philosophy, aesthetics and all kinds of art.
So if I'm not busy 'not writing', I spend a lot of time outdoors, reading, painting, playing chess, hanging out in jazz bars, museums and theatres and meeting friends.

Music makes my world go round and I listen to almost every genre (Notable exceptions are Techno and most Hip-hop) but my heart truly belongs to Jazz, Blues, Folk-metal, Irish folk and Classical music.

I really am a very nerdy girl and science makes my heart beat higher, so after the summer I'm going on to do Physics at Uni and I'm really looking forward to it.

Oh, and I play the bagpipes and I've got a pet-shrimp called Edgar (OK, that about the shrimp was a lie, but one day...).

So yeah, that is me in a nutshell.

Also; thank you very much for the comments I already got for my work. I appreciate it a lot.

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Hello there, it's lovely to meet you and what an interesting life you have led! I'm sorry that you got rejected by Cambridge. In true Yorkshire fashion, I didn't apply so I couldn't be rejected. Lol.

So what's your favourite genre to read and write? And do you play any sports? Watch films?

Heather xx

Hehe, well, I kept the rejection letter so I can send it back to them if I ever win the Nobel price
I actually love watching movies (just didn't remember to write anything about that...), my favourites always change a little, but generally I like stuff like Amélie, Les trois couleurs, The Thomas Crown Affair, Robin Hood, Shawshank redemption, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility... etc. (I probably forgot loads now) How about you?

I am not incredibly sporty, but I am a fair skier and telemark skier (Being Swiss its almost compulsory). I am rubbish at team sports though, so you could totally chase me with a Volleyball...

Favourite genre to read...god, couldn't you ask something easier?
I have a thing for the sort of "fantastical" short stories of Borges, The Romantics and Decadents totally rule poetry-wise. I absolutely love the sort of epic scope of Tolstoy and Tolkien. Oh yeah, Magic Realism, that is a good one...

My favourite genre to write in is probably Magic Realism, especially for short stories. I actually enjoy writing essays, but you need lots of brains and knowledge for that to turn out right, so I find it very hard.

Do you have some sort of favourite genre?
I haven't checked out your work yet, but I will definitely do so

xx

Hello!
I've read some of your poetry, it's really beautiful! And kudos to you for understanding that magical realism IS a genre and it's awesome. You really have read an interesting life. What are your favorite parts of England and Switzerland?

Thanks for the poetry-compliment

Magical realism absolutely rocks Do you have a specific favourite book in that genre? I just recently read "The life of Pi", which was awesome, but there are so many good books...

Hehe, at the moment I am in the middle of exams, so my life bores the hell out of me right now. On the bright side: It can only get better

I think I'm slightly biased with my favourite places in both countries
I was around Worcester and the Malvern Hills for two years, so I think that is a gorgeous place, but then there is Scotland (which is just generally amazing), Cornwall (which just is this sort of typical English landscape that foreigners like me always picture when they think of England) and all the magnificent Coast-lines. I think the only places I have NOT liked in England so far were a few grubby industrial cities and I absolutely adored the rest.

In Switzerland, I really like the Jura-Mountains where I live (Its a smaller chain of mountains pretty much covered in forest and meadows) and even though its such a cliche: The Alps. Once you get away from the more touristy places it is just absolutely gorgeous... Aaaaah, home

Do you live in England yourself?

Mayfyre wrote:but currently my writing output is very small. Mostly, rather crappy short-stories and some not quite as crappy essays are produced. So I am a writer who does not write much, really.

Hey, join the non-writing crew! I haven't written anything since ScriptFrenzy. And when I do write, I get the same thing - devastatingly bad short stories.

Mayfyre wrote:I am positively obsessed with Borges, Kundera and Oscar Wilde. And John Keats.

OSCAR WILDE! I cannot tell you how much I love him. Unfortunately, when I got two chapters into The Picture of Dorian Gray, a friend thought it might be nice to tell me what happened at the end. Oh, dontcha just love those kind of people? (They had never read it themselves, merely heard about it from their grandma, or something.)

But nevertheless - Wilde fans unite!

Mayfyre wrote:I've got a pet-shrimp called Edgar (OK, that about the shrimp was a lie, but one day...).

Oh, I got excited there. I've also wanted an odd pet. Like a goat that I could take for walks in Central London. Oh, the fun Gareth and I would have had... Gareth being what I would call the goat, o'course.


I have relatives in the Malvern Hills, and I have to concur; it's beautiful there! I hate the cities too, which is a shame, since I'm a Londoner.

How long have you lived here?

Hey!
No, I don't live in England; I'm a citizen of the US of A. My family was going to visit London last year, but it didn't work out. I'd still love to visit, though; I also want to visit Ireland, since most of my family is from there.

And I'm sorry, I got urban fantasy mixed up with magical realism. *blushes* What I meant to say is that urban fantasy rocks and I have no idea what magical realism is, lol.

I started reading the Life of Pi but I didn't get very far. I need to finish it someday.