Hi there, and thanks for taking the time to click on my name! This is my profile, so please treat it as you would treat your own. The bathroom is to the left and down the hall and you are more than welcome to browse my stories and leave a review! Here is my basic info:

Name: GastrravenholtzencheesloverfightforpengiunsnetballloverBafanaBafanaZumasucksassWaterkloofrulesten (but my friends call me Zee)

Age: More than One Hundred Thousand (no, really . . . I'm not shitting you) . . . days.

Sex: My boyfriends says I'm pretty good in bed (Damn right I'm good in bed . . . I can sleep for days.)

I started this account in June 2009 I think, but I can't remember. Originally, I joined this site juts because I was a big fan of reading off of it. But I soon discovered my passion for writing, and I started posting stuff of my own. At first, my style was pretty lame and I didn't have much of a plot in my head. But through the months, (and painful reviews from others), I improved and I'm stll getting better.

My first actual fic was a oneshot, my usual preference. 'Voldemort meets Hitler' was a breakthrough for me, and I recieved many positive responses, not only from the authers of this site, but my family and friends as well. A while after that, I began a random Harry Potter fic, (still in progress), just for the fun of it.

'One step at a Time' was my biggest challenge yet, and the main reason for my improvement. It'a a Sonic the Hedgehog fic, also still in progress, and I hope to finish it before 2011.

'Red to Blue, Blue to Red', my Angelic Layer OneShot and also my first attempt at romance, was fun to write, I have to say. I worked hard on it and I take pride in it.

'Lady of the Night', a cute little piece I had in mind. Pokemon are always fun to write about, and this OneShot was also.

'Zoey Redbird meets Bella Cullen', my latest OneShot and my greatest one yet. It took me exactly six days to draft, write, rewrite, tipe and finish off, and I couldn't be prouder of myself. My best OneShot thus far, and I hope to write the sequel after I've read Untamed, Hunted and Tempted.

2009 was an eventful year for me. I have high hopes for 2010!! (Except the Soccer World Cup. Bafana Bafana really doesn't stand a chance, to put it as friendly as possible)

Thank you to everyone who ever reviewed my stories this year. It was a great motivation and it helped a lot! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

ADVICE TO NOVICE FANFICTION-WRITERS

Oh, and I got this off another website. It's very useful if you're starting out in fanfiction-writing.

Avoid Starting a Story With A Long Narrative Passage: Readers are more interested in reading about something as it happens (showing them action) than they are about reading a character or narrator telling them what's happening. Starting a story with a slow-moving narrative passage was the most common mistake I found during a recent survey of 377 X-Files authors. Avoid their mistake and you'll stand out as a better-than-average author. Start with lively action, capture your reader's interest by quickly introducing a mystery, and you'll be assured that they will stay with your story.

Show, Don't Tell: Don't tell your reader that something's beautiful, show them by describing it and have them discover its beauty for themselves. Better still, Show the reactions the beauty inspires in your characters. This adds life and movement to the scene.

Avoid Repetition: Repetition turns up in many different forms, all of them bad. Here's a few to avoid: Don't use the same word twice close to each other. This applies to prefixes and suffixes too. Don't describe a person as being excited and then say that he or she said something excitedly. The context should show they said it excitedly. Don't place sentences that are the same length next to each other. Don't use two phrases to describe the same thing (like a drunk staggering and stumbling).

Avoid Cliches: Cliches are commonly used phrases like raining cats and dogs. Cliches can also show up in characters: the prostitute with a heart of gold, and plots: the cavalry riding to the rescue at the last moment.

Avoid Qualifiers: Adjectives and adverbs help clarify verbs but they also weaken their impact. A better solution is to find a more descriptive verb that shows the reader what you want him to see.

Keep Modifiers Close to the Word They Modify: Consider they following:

Sam smashed the brass knuckles into Jeff's face covered with studs.

This extreme example makes it sound like Jeff's face is covered in studs. It reads more clearly as:

Sam smashed the brass knuckles covered with studs into Jeff's face.

Most of the time this mistake is more subtle than this example but can still confuse the reader.

Don't Use "-- said" If It's Not Needed: When only two people are talking, you only need he said and she said a couple of times in the beginning of the dialog. Readers are smart enough to follow who's talking from then on.

Use Contractions in Dialog: That's how real people talk. It'll make your dialogs read smoother and more realistic.

Cut Out Extraneous Words: Most fan fiction fails to read smoothly because authors use more words to describe a scene than are needed. The result is that the story reads unevenly. This is also called overwriting. Imagine you have to pay for each word in your story and the ones that can be cut will stand out. Give words like the, and, even, and just an extra hard look. Many times these can be dropped to make the passage sound more dynamic and active.

Conquer "-ly" confusion: What's the difference between the following two sentences:

He smells bad.

He smells badly.

The first sentence states that the man in question has a bad odor. The second says that there is something wrong with his nose and he isn't able to smell effectively. These examples demonstrate that the -ly suffex is used to convert an adjective into an adverb. Mastering this simple rule will help clarify what you are trying to say about a character.

Rewrite: Always rewrite your story several times, preferably with a couple of weeks break between each one, before posting it on the net. The key to good rewriting is to proof read slowly. Writers are so familiar with their work that when they look at it they don't really read but just skim it; their memories fill in the words they jump over. The hazard is that this permits mistakes to be jumped over as well. Maintaining a list of mistakes you repeatedly make will help focus your attention on them during proof readings.

Use a Spellchecker: You work hard to draw your reader into the world of your story. A single misspelled word is like a slap in the face to a reader; it shocks him or her out of the story by reminding them that it's just something they're reading.

NOW READ AND REVIEW ALL MY STORIES AND DON'T LET THE REVIEW-BUTTON HIT YOU ON THE WAY OUT!

UNTIL 2010

PEACE OUT

THANK YOU

ZeeDraGon