I am Nightmare, though a lot of people call me N. I find it amusing. I am twenty-one, in college and studying animation, and have really been trying to get back to business and write again, as I do want to put my talents to good use and possibly make some of my stories into graphic novels.
Writing History
I have been writing stories since second grade. I do not remember my earliest stories, but I do remember my teacher gave us pieces of paper with stickers on them, and we would make up stories about the stickers (I remember I got a blue hat once, and a ladybug). She often read mine aloud to the class.
I started (and failed) to write a novel in fourth grade, tried again a few years later with a different story, got a friend into it, and that fell through too. She even made an online fanclub, so I sort of felt bad when I quit writing, but I ended up ignoring that story for a year, and the protagonist (who is the protagonist for my main project) changed way too much for the setting of that story in that time.
I have actually completed some stories, though, and have been published twice in my high school magazine, and won a writing prize for a story I wrote for Talk Like a Pirate Day (the judges Googled it to make sure it was mine. That made me laugh). I still write off and on, have a Fanfiction.net account, and have recently been overhauling a lot of old works to try to re-do them.
Current writing
I am not going to say much about my main series. Bottom line, it involves a lot of insanity among one family that spreads and eventually ruins/destroys a world, which eventually gets rebuilt and is mostly time-lined through one character's life span, minus some events before they were born. Said character is also insane.
This main series has a few (unwritten) spin-offs already due to the complexity of the characters, and how some of them can only be supporting characters in the main, but are rounded enough that I can give them their own separate stories.
I also do mini "random" stories that have nothing to do with the main or spin-offs that just jump into my head, like a living-dead robot girl, and a returned roommate who has not realized she is dead. I should make a book of just those simple little stories.
Lately, I have been in a bad habit of overhauling everything I find. The main story got completely trashed and is currently being re-written at the moment. Then I found another lost gem that I was so proud of when I wrote it six years ago, but now is also going through an overhaul too. The story my friend loved that I stopped writing may also get a revival from the dead, eventually. I really need to stop looking through old projects.
I am also obsessed with writing out rules for everything I come up with.
Inspiration
I am a sucker for fairy tales and folklore. I like to include odd references to them, like I use certain names for demons as character names, or the fact that white roses or a handful of sand are harmful to a vampire. I also occasionally reference a myth that I like. I do want to try my hand at a new version of The Steadfast Tin Soldier eventually, as that is my favorite (albeit more modern, as it was written by Hans Christian Anderson) fairy tale ever.
Anyone who knows me will know Tim Burton also has a hand in it. Actually, my main character in my main story used to be a Nightmare Before Christmas fancharacter. She broke her ties from fandom, and now works much better in her own original story. That does not stop the occasional mental crossover, however...
A lot of media I am into is generally dark and twisted. I like darker Disney films, Batman, the manga Godchild, and old horror comics/stories (still trying to find a copy of Varney the Vampyre and The Invisible Man). Music I like fits here too, mostly soundtracks, though I do like bands like Creature Feature, Oingo Boingo, Evanescence, and Linkin Park. If it sounds weird, chances are I will give it a try. I do also like instrumentals, and will eventually get things with bells (like, church bells) or Celtic flutes. Gregorian chants, too.
Other
N is:
-Female
-An ex-Mormon
-5'7"
-A Harley Quinn look-alike
-The oldest of twelve and the first in her family to go to college
-An American
-Mostly a vegetarian, because she hates how most meat tastes (but loves shellfish, hence "mostly" ). Vegetarian jokes are funny, and killing anything bred for food (chickens, cows, etc.) are okay by her, since they are not going to go extinct. Rare turtles who are killed for pretty shells, on the other hand, are another story.
N likes:
-Tim Burton
-Ugly, insane, and/or dark characters
-Outcasts
-Literacy
-Common sense
-Dark themes/tones/media/etc.
-VAMPIRES. And demons.
-Disney
-Rock music and soundtracks
-Puns
N dislikes:
-Rap/hip-hop/reggae/modern pop
-Illiteracy
-Rule-breaking (I have been known to pull a 180 in terms of anger over this)
-Anything that insults her intelligence
-"txt-tlk"
-Just about everything on TV
-People who confuse "vegetarian" and "vegan." Vegans are the ones who do not eat cheese, milk, or eggs as well as meat. N would die without them, milk especially.
-People who stereotype in general
-Phan/fangirls. The crazy ones
-Yaoi/yuri/hentai/anything else that involves heavy sex
-Most manga/anime
...I think that covers it. Until next time.
