: About Me

Hey!

I'm 27-years-old and a Chicago lifer, living my current incarnation in Uptown.

My writing projects have varied over the years. I started doing poetry like most starried-eyed youth, at first angry and disconnected, then contemplative and forgiving. From there I started a lot of little prose
projects, mostly unfinished, but still well loved. Today, I'm maintaining a blog called How to Be a Rising Goddess and chipping away at my first soon-to-be-published endeavor. It's a creative non-fiction piece that tells the story of a decade through the poems of a mentally unstable teenaged girl. I initally planned to self-publish this, but I feel confident that I should jump out there and shop this around for a real publisher.

In the meantime, I want to sharpen my skills and break into freelance writing . I feel I can accomplish this best by participating in classes, discussions, and websites like this with writers of all levels.

Oh... I'm supposed to say what me favorite food is: spicy carribean foods and ice cream. My pet peeves are overly-agressive know-it-alls, fruit flies, and self-promotional fluff disguised as self-help books.

My passion is ...

to ultimately open an alternative continuing education/vocational school.

I know too much about ...

nothing and too little about everything.

My parents always told me ...

to do my homework.

My childhood ambition ...

was to be a lab technician, only because it sounded cool.

My favorite memory ...

has yet to be made.

Why I write ...

I write because speaking as much as I write will make me hoarse. I write because my body can not contain the amount of imagination I manufacture. Because I want everyone to know something. Because I need to know something.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I'm reading The Women of Brewster Place. I'm watching Netflix. I'm listening to Bjork's new album, Volta.

My first job ...

that did not come with a W-2 was babysitting. My first job with a W-2 was an artist internship. My real job hasn't happened yet.

My best moment ...

was knowing exactly when I grew up. I was 25 and tired of playing childish games to get what I wanted. I started listening to what everyone had to say and I wasn't afraid of the world any more. I took care of myself, got a job that pays, and moved out of my mother's home to prove myself to the world. I made decisions based on long-term goals and have stuck them. And it makes it all great because I still have a ways to go until my next incarnation awakens.

My inspiration ...

in human form are my friends; in object form, it would be the internet, that endless depository of information both real and imagined.

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