Hi, you can call me Siren.
I like to write fiction of both the mainstream/literary variety (I hesitate to call anything I write "literary," as that seems almost a subjective assessment) and sword-and-sorcery fantasy. I'm 30 (in 13 days) and live in Los Angeles with my husband, who works for Yahoo! Movies.
In my spare time I enjoy playing World of Warcraft (if you do too, please join www.dramatis-personae.com/forums!), the Sims 2, Civilization IV, basically any sort of computer game that allows me to let my imagination run wild and dream up a story behind the events that are unfolding in pixels. I also enjoy learning foreign languages, and hope to be fluent in ten of them before I die (counting English, which I still feel woefully inadequate in.)
As my last sentence may imply, I am violently AGAINST the "Latinization" of English, such as the "rule" that sentences can't end in prepositions and so forth. English is its own language, with a rich and fascinating history, and doesn't need to be turned into Latin to be worthwhile. Down with "Up with which we will not put!" etc.
Other superobsessive English-related pet peeves - use of "reference" as a verb, any use of the word "normalcy," pseudo French pronunciations like ONvelope and the even more horrifying CONTimeter, and pronunciation of "kilometer" as though it were a device that measures kils rather than a measure of a thousand meters.
Yes, I'm a word snob. That said, I forgive others' mistakes if they are not writers or scholars, and I even forgive writers and scholars the first 10 or 20 times. If my husband "references" something one more time though I may choke him to death with my delicate white hands.
I'm not sure how my intro became a grammar rant - I suppose I keep this sort of thing inside everywhere else, and so it's bursting out like steam from a loose valve!!! Save yourselves.
P.S., I am also a nice person. I hug all of you.
I like to write fiction of both the mainstream/literary variety (I hesitate to call anything I write "literary," as that seems almost a subjective assessment) and sword-and-sorcery fantasy. I'm 30 (in 13 days) and live in Los Angeles with my husband, who works for Yahoo! Movies.
In my spare time I enjoy playing World of Warcraft (if you do too, please join www.dramatis-personae.com/forums!), the Sims 2, Civilization IV, basically any sort of computer game that allows me to let my imagination run wild and dream up a story behind the events that are unfolding in pixels. I also enjoy learning foreign languages, and hope to be fluent in ten of them before I die (counting English, which I still feel woefully inadequate in.)
As my last sentence may imply, I am violently AGAINST the "Latinization" of English, such as the "rule" that sentences can't end in prepositions and so forth. English is its own language, with a rich and fascinating history, and doesn't need to be turned into Latin to be worthwhile. Down with "Up with which we will not put!" etc.
Other superobsessive English-related pet peeves - use of "reference" as a verb, any use of the word "normalcy," pseudo French pronunciations like ONvelope and the even more horrifying CONTimeter, and pronunciation of "kilometer" as though it were a device that measures kils rather than a measure of a thousand meters.
Yes, I'm a word snob. That said, I forgive others' mistakes if they are not writers or scholars, and I even forgive writers and scholars the first 10 or 20 times. If my husband "references" something one more time though I may choke him to death with my delicate white hands.
I'm not sure how my intro became a grammar rant - I suppose I keep this sort of thing inside everywhere else, and so it's bursting out like steam from a loose valve!!! Save yourselves.
P.S., I am also a nice person. I hug all of you.
Siren. Welcome to AW.
