Hi! My name is Shawny.
I'm Chinese-American, born and raised in San Francisco. I attended and then graduated UC Davis in 2000 with a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering. I love many things, but most especially I love my husband and my children.
I like a lot of anime. I've been watching it since I was a kid - and I don't intend to stop anytime soon! Now-a-days I don't have much time for anime, but I watch it when I can. I enjoy reading and writing fan fiction. I write on and off (mostly off; I went years without writing anything) whenever the mood hits me and if time permits. I dabble mostly, so my writing is probably a bit rusty. Real Life keeps me pretty busy! Occasionally, I cosplay.
Other things I like: eating, pasta, BBQ, sushi, Vienamese noodle soups, dim sum, cookies, iced tea, anime, reading, Dance Dance Revolution (DDR), anime conventions - Hmm... Notice how many of my likes involve food? sweatdrop I'm also interested in personal finance and accounting. I enjoy investing and watching my portfolio grow.
Dislikes: hot and humid weather, wet and frosty weather, radio commercials, so called "real" TV, plagiarism
Pet Peeves: People who mix up and misuse homophones. People who write in so called "Computer English" (sez, ur, frenz, etc). I'm good at English, so people who don't use the English language properly really, really annoy me!
Thirty Kisses Challenge
I'm taking the Thirty Kisses Challenge on Live Journal. The challenge is to claim a couple that you like and write 30 fanfics (or draw fanart) with that couple. (They can be short 100 word drabbles or long multi-chaptered novels. The length doesn't matter.) The challenge is that each story must have one of the 30 themes AND a kiss in it. The kiss can be anywhere in the fanfic, and doesn't necessarily have to be between the couple you've chosen, although that is preferred.
More information on Thirty Kisses is here: http://community.livejournal.com/30_kisses/profile
Several people have started the 30 kisses challenge with Naruto and Hinata as the couple. But so far, no one has actually completed all 30 kisses. My goal is to be the first person to complete all 30 NaruHina kisses. Go me!
7/12/08: 8 down, 22 kisses left to go!
One Small Step is the first story I'm writing for the challenge. Ten Defining Moments is the second.
One of the main reasons I took up this challenge was because of Sleepwalking101 on deviantART. She writes very good NaruHina fanfics and is currently taking the 100 themes challenge on DA. 100! She’s writing 100 NaruHina oneshots. I’d been toying with the idea of taking the 30 kisses challenge for a very long time. When I saw her writing 100 NaruHina stories, it motivated me to get off my lazy butt and actually do it! Hey, if she can write 100, then I can write 30! Right? Anyways, if you love NaruHina, go check out her stories on DA: http://sleepwalking101.deviantart.com/gallery
Current Works-In-Progress
(1) Naruto: One Small Step
(2) Naruto: Ten Defining Moments
(3) YYH: A Matter of Trust and Other Drabbles
Works-On-Hiatus
Yu Yu Hakusho: Masquerade
This is not posted on this site. At least, not yet. I started this Kurama and Botan romance way back in 1999 or 2000, but only completed 2 chapters. I was nervous about writing it, as it would have been my very fist multi-chaptered fic. And I wasn't sure where I was going with it. Then I got distracted by Real Life - and it never got finished. I plan to focus on Masquerade after I finish the 30 Kisses Challenge.
Masquerade is posted on my website: http://dragonillusions.addr.com/writing/yuyuhakusho.htm
Completed Fics
Gundam Wing: First Date
This was the second fanfic I ever wrote. Oneshot. Romance. 1xR.
Update: 6/22/08
Sorry! I know it's been almost 2 months since I last updated my fics. I would like to reassure everyone that I have not abandoned them. If you're interested, I have posted two excerpts of chapter 8 of One Small Step on my Live Journal.
Excerpt #1 (425 words): http://shawnyw.livejournal.com/38276.html
Excerpt #2 (3139 words): http://shawnyw.livejournal.com/38595.html
Update: 7/25/08
I received my very first gift art! One of the readers of One Small Step enjoyed it so much that he drew a SIX page fan comic of the first chapter! He is an amazing artist. You can read the fan comic here: http://shawnyw.livejournal.com/41006.html
Update: 8/3/2008
The artist who did the fan comic for me colored it! And he says he's already working on a fan comic of chapter 2! Wow! You can read the colored version here: http://shawnyw.livejournal.com/41818.html
Current status of One Small Step - chapter 9, words: 1,194 of 5,000
Please note that the final length of my chapters varies. 5,000 is only a guideline for me. Regardless of the length, the chapter ends when I have written all the scenes that I've planned for that chapter! Er... I'm just guessing, but it's starting to look like chapter 9 will end up being closer to 10,000 words... Oops?
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