Name: Adele

Inspiration

Favorite Books:Young Wizards, One Flew over the Cuckoo's NestThe Dirteaters, Madeline L'Engle, Looking for Alaska, Book of Joe, Lolita, A Separate Peace,Bel Canto, The Giver, Leaving Paradise, 1984, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Feed, A Probable Future,

Favorite Movies/Shows/Plays: Dead Poets Society, Bang Bang You're Dead, Angels in America, Stranger than Fiction, Annouilh's Antigone,Grey's Anatomy, Secretary,The Tragedy of Othello,Trainspotting,The Village, Romeo and Juliet, Last King of Scotland,The Apartment, Sex Lies and Videotape

Writing Soundtrack (Week of August 5):

"Every You Every Me" Placebo
"Desire on Repeat" Vedera
"Blood and Peanut Butter" BC Camplight
"Born to Run" Bruce Springsteen
"When You Were Young" The Killers
"Nazis on my Radio" Angie Aparo
"The World that We Loved" Jimmy Eat World

Hobbies: Writing (obviously), politics, editing, human rights, feminism, platonic theory,cooking, clothes design, experimental muse techniques, camping, keyboard

About Adele: Restless Adele has been writing competetively for eight years. She discovered fanfiction as a safe outlet for her seemingly constant flow of semi-obsessions. She would love to do some beta-ing. Adele enjoys ballads, songs full of intensity, cooking when angry, political activism, journalism competetive bullwhip, boxing, lemonbars, stories that explore the deeper motives of people and slash (sometimes). Adele will soon be the main financial support for her nuclear family and has chosen to double major in politics and journalism. This decision compounded with pressure by her family lead to Adele to cease writing fiction for 6 months. Following a host of nightmares and a beautiful morning Adele realized that, despite her love of politics, to stop writing fiction and editing would be to stop living. She is currently in the process of editing her second large piece for publication. Adele currently resides in the midwest and hosts small writing and consult jobs as she works to ensure a sense of romantic awe and wonder in her life and the lives of those around her.

Favorite Quotes:

"People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love."- Chuck Pahalniuk

"Writing is like acupuncture of the sexual organs...very exciting and very dangerous "

"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."-G.K. Chesterson

"I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
Henry David Thoreau

"Alright, Carpe Diem. Even if it kills me."

"Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary. "
Chuck Palahniuk

"You must struggle to find your own voice. For the longer you wait the less likely it is you'll find it at all."

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only love."
Mother Teresa