Name: Danielle

Age: Younger than Harry Potter, according to the official timeline, yet old enough to start thinking about lying about it…

Location: I'd love to say London, but alas... I am back in Australia!

Works: Desktop Publishing at a small, private, all-girls catholic school (only thing remotely similar to Hogwarts is that the building I work in has Cloisters :D)

Education: University undergraduate degree in Communication and Management. Don’t ask me where that will get me, I’m not there yet! Former Law Student. Current enrollee in a Post Grad Dip in International Studies. Mostly because it just had the word 'International' in the title and it has courses like 'Intelligence Analysis'... which is about as close to 'How to be a Spy like Snape 101' as I could find wink

Where I'm at...

Well from being an impoverised student when I started writing FF, to being an absent traveller trying to stretch every dollar, I am now an impoverished home owner who has signed their soul to the bank and spends my spare time a) not eating, b) looking for extra work (present role is only p/t) and c) justifying it all by enrolling in post grad so I can relate to fellow impoverished students

Single most defining moment in my life?

Asides from my parent’s separating when I was 14? Losing my last remaining grandmother, godfather and mother within 12 months of each other, all to debilitating and demoralising illnesses. Just over five years on and I’m still trying to wrap my head around it…

Where do I see myself twelve months from now?

On vacation... LOL

20/06/2009 08:44 GMT

Well, it's my middle-brother's birthday. It's after 5pm and he hasn't come out of his bedroom yet. Ah to be a college student again! (lucky you-know-what). I'm phishing off my Dad's internet, deploying his central heating and otherwise avoiding the tip I call home... there's only so much sitting in a beanbag and bathing in a kitchen sink a girl can contend with (furniture is on backorder and then there is the tiny matter of my only bathroom not being watertight! GAH!). I have come to the steady conclusion that my plot bunnies must be fuelled by something in the local water (or maybe it is just a self-coping mechanism to once again being geographically displaced from all I hold dear) because all these long abandoned WIPs on my computer have re-emerged on my desktop and crying for attention.

It goes against everything I initially set out to do - that is, only post that which I have committed to finishing - but then I realised that perhaps my Muse would have a clearer idea of which story(s) to continue with if I posted a few WIPs here and let the audience decide...

So, I cannot guarrantee that I will finish any of these which I will post, but should all inspiration die for any of them before completion I will remove them completely instead of clinging to the inbox of 'whn wll u update?' reviews and torturing newcomers with a half-finished plot. In the meantime, I ask that you bear with me in terms of updates... my muse must compete with post-graduate study, a part time job that has a full time workload, and a structurally-sound but Grimmauld-Place type house that commands attention. I can say this, though... reviews are a mighty motivator.

Keep your fingers crossed.

- D

24/06/2009 12:00 GMT

What can I say, I am a mighty procrastinator. Rather than spend my evening on the office laptop I brought home for purposes of doing an edit on 97 pages of a book that needs to go to press in, oh, a week (!) or otherwise dilly-dallying about with plot bunnies (rabid, I tell you), I did nonsensical little things like ressurrect my YouTube account and create a Twitter Page. Check it out if you want to keep tabs on when I'm writing FF... and nag appropriately when I'm goofing off :) Link is my new homepage above

- D

PS Points to those who figure out the significance of my profile pic on Twitter. A hint: Picture it after dark.