Hello,

My name is AlElizabeth. I am 34 years old and live in a small town in Ontario, Canada. I am a proud cat-Mom of two spoiled kitties named Lily and Stella. I work full-time at a retirement home as a Personal Support Worker. But that's just my day job; my real passion is writing.

My sister, BerserkerHellHound, is also on this site and is my unofficial Beta Reader and editor.

I love to read, watch television and movies, walk/hike, cook, garden and listen to music. Some of my favourite authors are Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Patrick Rothfuss, John Saul, J.K. Rowling, John Grisham, Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Diana Gabaldon and Linwood Barclay.

My favourite TV shows are Supernatural, Dr. Who, Criminal Minds, American Horror Story, Hannibal, The X-Files, Project Runway, Face Off, The Walking Dead and Downton Abbey.

I like a wide range of music from Metallica to Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan and Iron Maiden, Pink Floyd, Billy Talent and Led Zeppelin. I even like some rap and blues/jazz, etc. really I am not that picky when it comes to music- if it sounds good to me, whatever the genre, I'll listen to it.

I write as a sow piddles - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world - Albert Einstein

Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self - Cyril Connolly

Fiction is the truth inside the lie - Stephen King

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart - William Wordsworth

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within - Alfred Lord Tennyson

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means - Oscar Wilde

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content is flimsy - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul - Aldous Huxley

I write for the same reason I breathe- because if I didn't, I would die - Isaac Asimov

Where there is no imagination there is no horror - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

My stories run up and bite me on the leg- I respond by writing everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off- Ray Bradbury

Humankind cannot bear very much reality- T.S. Eliot

Good writing is like a windowpane - George Orwell

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar - E. B. White

No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place - Isaac Babel

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed - Ernest Hemingway

If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it - Toni Morrison

Whether or not you write well, write bravely - Bill Stout

Real writers are those who want to write, need to write, have to write - Robert Penn Warren

Writing is a sweet, wonderful reward - Franz Kafka

Take away the art of writing from this world, and you will probably take away its glory - Chateaubriand

A writer lives, at best, in a state of astonishment - William Sansom

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere - Albert Einstein

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us - Paul Theroux

No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader - Robert Frost

Imagination rules the world - Napoleon Bonaparte

For each person there is a sentence, a series of words, which has the power to destroy them - Philip K. Dick

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most - Theodore Parker

I write because it fulfills me. I do it for the pure joy of the thing, and if you can do it for the joy, you can do it forever - Stephen King

Fairytales are more than true: not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten - G.K. Chesterton

Writers must be fair and remember even bad guys (most of them, anyway) see themselves as good-they are the heroes of their own lives. Giving them a fair chance as characters can create some interesting shades of grey-and shades of grey are also part of life - Stephen King

Writing is a struggle against silence - Carlos Fuentes

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself - Franz Kafka

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake - E.L. Doctorow

I don't think all writers are sad, she said. I think its the other way around- all sad people write - Lang Leav

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity - Franz Kafka

...the function of imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange... - G.K. Chesterton

An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this - Stephen King

One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones - Stephen King

I try to leave out the parts that people skip - Elmore Leonard

The story must strike a nerve- in me. My heart should start pounding when I hear the first line in my head. I start trembling at the risk - Susan Sontag

But how could you live and have no story to tell? - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The primary duty of literature is to tell us the truth about ourselves by telling us lies about people who never existed - Stephen King

Easy reading is damned hard writing - Nathaniel Hawthorne

One must be careful of books, and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us - Cassandra Clare

The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life or better to endure it - Dr. Samuel Johnson

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature - Ernest Hemingway

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are- Joss Whedon

Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations - Ray Bradbury

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does- William Faulkner

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story - Frank Herbert

Endings to be useful must be inconclusive - Samuel R. Delany

The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending - Orson Scott Card

Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water- Kurt Vonnegut

Write something that people might not "enjoy" but will never forget- Chuck Palahniuk

Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised- John Steinbeck

If you are using dialogue- say it aloud as you write it. Only then will it have the sound of speech - John Steinbeck

I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind - Rudyard Kipling

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon - Robert Cormier

A short story is a different thing all together- a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger - Stephen King

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us - Paul Theroux

I put the words down and push them a bit- Evelyn Waugh

The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage - Jack London

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink - T.S. Eliot

We write down made-up stories to tell the truths we wish we could say out loud - Anonymous

We have art in order not to die from the truth - Friedrich Nietzsche

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live - Francoise Sagan

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity - Rudyard Kipling

A drop of ink may make a million think - Lord Byron

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality - Lewis Carroll

No artist tolerates reality - Friedrich Nietzsche

Note On the Text: A 'W' will be used to indicate a temporal (time) change - paragraph break- within a character's narration. A 'SPN' will be used to indicate the change of character Point of View or change in narration.

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