Welcome to the profile of biliophile1.

Some guesstimated stats about me:

I have read about 1,500 different books on awide variety, which means a rate of about 116 books/year (not taking into account that I couldn't read my first few years).

I have gotten about 20 of those books taken up by teachers at different times.

I have gotten yelled at by parents over books at least 500 times.

I have an immeasurable love of reading!

I typically go for the fanasy type of genre, but nanything that tells a story in an engaging way is really good in my book (haha! unintentional pun!). In the more realistic fiction type of area, I enjoy books involving wilderness survival or Native Americans or anything like outdoorsy/camping type stuff, as well as books involving thinkers and innovaters who use their skills to face challenges (i.e., in Eoin Colfer's Airman, the main character has to use his obssesion with flying machines, which have not yet been invented, to escape from prison and overthrow the evil traitor that put him there). Heck, anything with a smart guy in it fascinates me, cuz I can totally relate!

I've been formulating stories since I knew what one was, but I never got serious about writing my own ideas, not just school assignments, until fifth grade, when my classroom reading privelege was revoked due to misuse and overuse. The story was the culmination of a series of ideas developed from an original continuing story I'd started to help me get to bed when I was too young to remember now how old I was. In sixth grade I used the freedom my LA teacher gave us in our daily journals t lengthen and revamp the story, and now two years later the story is still sittting on my computer, waitng to be finished. I have two novel-length books and three more coming, but I can't find anywhere to publish them. However, my fanfiction "Heart of Flame" has found an outlet. I'm glad to have this iste to publish somthing on, and this might just get me noticed by some big company. Until then, I'm going to keep on practicing and learning, and letting my stories grow.

This started as something really short, sweet, and to the point, maybe a sentence or two. Now my profile text is several paragraphs long, and has grown like that while I typed it. But, hey, everything I write does this; it grows in the making, branching off into more and more complex themes and ideas that I can't put into whatever I'm writing. The LA journal series from before began as one book that might have an infinitive ending that allowed for billions of continued adventures and might reach something like ninety pages, if I phrase everything in a space-consuming way. Now it's a plan or five novel length-books with dozens of chracters and settings and themes and plot arcs and details I never included in my original idea. It's grown into something, amazing, and i can't even believe I wrote it!

I hope whatever you write grows the same way.

Enough seriousness, time for silliness.

I saw this&decided 2 follow instructions, for once.

Nerds are cool. Nerds are smart. Nerds will one day rule the universe. If you're a nerd and proud of it, copy this into your profile

If you get way to excited for books, movies, etc. to come out, copy this into your profile

If you have ever felt the undeniable urge to slam your head into something, whether it is another person or not copy this into your profile

it was my brothers. there were multiple occasions, inc. once when "Bob2" soaked my copy of Eldest! On purpose!!(insert beet-red angry devil face here)

If you have ever said something that has nothing to do with the conversation copy this on your profile

If you have a tendency to talk to yourself, copy and paste this into your profile

I call it thinking aloud, cuz otherwise people think I'm crazy

If at one time you misspelled or forgot how to spell a word less than four letters, copy and paste this onto your profile

it was fuel in the 4th grade class spelling bee; I thought it was feul because "fee-ool" sounded better than "fyoo-ehl." to me

If you think that Writer's Block stinks, copy and paste this into your profile