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Site News / Re: Introduce yourself - right on!
« on: November 21, 2005, 12:42:57 AM »
I decided it was time to revise this, and in the meantime say that I sure was making myself look like an idiot with the original.
Hello, I am a fifteen year old student at a school in Orem, and will be attending Orem High School this fall. I am an avid fan of both sci-fi and fantasy, fantasy being the favorite. I have read a fair bit of the classics but have had a hard time reading all of them because everyone I talk to seems to have a different list of what the classics are. At any rate, I ran into this site after Brandon Sanderson and Rob Wells came to my Creative Writing class. Brandon told me to feel free to send him hate mail; his exact words to my question if anyone had sent him any were "No, but you can be the first." I eventually did, but it was almost a year later after I had been a member of this site for about as long.
Books of Brandon's that have come out that I have read include Elantris and The Final Empire. I have read about three quarters of Rob's book, The Counterfeit.
I have fun, when permitted, by hanging out with friends, reading, writing, playing video games, and messing around with computers. Some of my favorite games are Halo 1 and Halo 2, Fable and Fable: the Lost Chapters, the Star Wars Battlefront franchise, Chrono Cross, and the Legend of Zelda franchise. Some of my favorite books that are unrelated to this site are Treason, Ender's Game, Exenocide, and Empire, all by Orson Scott Card. In addition I am also a somewhat jaded fan of the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, on the same note The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien continues to be one of my favorite books. Isaac Asimov's Robot Dreams, the only book I have read of his, is also a favorite, and in particular the story The Last Question in the aforementioned book. If you want to know something that is almost certain to make me rant, and that I hate almost above all others, then mention the depraved Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paolini. I recommend reading it as a guidebook for two things; a) something to laugh at on bad days and b) what to avoid in your own writing.
Plans for my future include getting a degree in something to do with computers, and then after working and supporting my family with the money from that trying to get published as an author. If this works out then my grand plan of retiring at thirty five to write will be complete.
There you have it, a shorter, much less embarrassing and downright sad introduction after about a year and a half later from the time of my joining this site.
Hello, I am a fifteen year old student at a school in Orem, and will be attending Orem High School this fall. I am an avid fan of both sci-fi and fantasy, fantasy being the favorite. I have read a fair bit of the classics but have had a hard time reading all of them because everyone I talk to seems to have a different list of what the classics are. At any rate, I ran into this site after Brandon Sanderson and Rob Wells came to my Creative Writing class. Brandon told me to feel free to send him hate mail; his exact words to my question if anyone had sent him any were "No, but you can be the first." I eventually did, but it was almost a year later after I had been a member of this site for about as long.
Books of Brandon's that have come out that I have read include Elantris and The Final Empire. I have read about three quarters of Rob's book, The Counterfeit.
I have fun, when permitted, by hanging out with friends, reading, writing, playing video games, and messing around with computers. Some of my favorite games are Halo 1 and Halo 2, Fable and Fable: the Lost Chapters, the Star Wars Battlefront franchise, Chrono Cross, and the Legend of Zelda franchise. Some of my favorite books that are unrelated to this site are Treason, Ender's Game, Exenocide, and Empire, all by Orson Scott Card. In addition I am also a somewhat jaded fan of the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan, on the same note The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien continues to be one of my favorite books. Isaac Asimov's Robot Dreams, the only book I have read of his, is also a favorite, and in particular the story The Last Question in the aforementioned book. If you want to know something that is almost certain to make me rant, and that I hate almost above all others, then mention the depraved Inheritance Trilogy by Christopher Paolini. I recommend reading it as a guidebook for two things; a) something to laugh at on bad days and b) what to avoid in your own writing.
Plans for my future include getting a degree in something to do with computers, and then after working and supporting my family with the money from that trying to get published as an author. If this works out then my grand plan of retiring at thirty five to write will be complete.
There you have it, a shorter, much less embarrassing and downright sad introduction after about a year and a half later from the time of my joining this site.