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I am a 30-something government employee who has been actively writing since I was about 16. Because of the nature of my fiction, I write under a few pseudonyms instead of my real name. My pseudonym for Poltergeist fiction is Penemuel, a name I picked specifically because of its origin: Penemuel was one of the Grigori, or Watchers, angels who were supposed to watch over the human race and instead mated with them and shared their forbidden knowledge -- and ended up Falling because of it. Penemuel taught writing, which the human race was supposedly never meant to know ("and thereby many sinned from eternity to eternity and until this day. For man was not intended for such a purpose" -- Enoch I, 7:8), and also taught children "the bitter and sweet, and the secrets of wisdom".
I write nearly exclusively slash fiction -- I tend toward the somewhat darker storylines and have a low tolerance for hearts & flowers. I like my characters to have flaws; and all of them, good and evil, to be shades of grey, not black & white. I also have been known, occasionally (veg), to stray into the areas of graphically depicted rough sex, BDSM, and other alternative practices.
Homepage -- Penemuel's Nest:
http://geocities.datacellar.net/Hollywood/Picture/8995
E-mail addy: UVAlpha@aol.com
Other fandoms include:
Babylon 5, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Highlander (Methos!), Pretender, Miami Vice, Wiseguy, Homicide, etc. etc. etc. -- I like lots of genre shows, and also cop & detective shows. Currently, I'm not writing anything on any of them, although I've got a lot of B5 fiction written under the pen name Galenn, and one piece of web-archived & zine-published gen B5 fiction ("Patterns of Light and Shadow") that would have been slash but was first posted to the net when we didn't have an adult B5 mailing list....I'm slowly working on putting the slash bits back into it, although if any slash-fan reads the gen version, they'll probably pick up on all of the hints anyway.
I'm also planning on eventually trying my hand at some Highlander fic, but need to do lots more research; and have the germ of an idea for a P:TL/BtVS crossover bubbling around in my brain. Could be a fun one...Ethan Rayne, eh?
Of course, I'm also a typical Gemini -- I've got far more unfinished stories kicking around than completed ones...When I get to the hard work part of it, I often get tired of it and go on to the next thing that's screaming to get out of my head.
Anything else you'd like your readers to know.
I have a Muse who is very much like Xena, and she wields a baseball bat. When she starts whacking at me with it, I HAVE to write. Even if I got a cease & desist order from TPTB, I'd have to continue writing, whether I ever sent it anywhere again or not...If I don't write, the stories & ideas start piling up inside my head & start making me crazy...[Shush, you...] The only way to keep from going crazy is to write, so I get it out of my head & onto the paper...
I write longhand with a fountain pen, and then type everything into the computer. That's why it tends to take me a while. I also write very intuitively -- I have a basic idea of where I'm going, a basic outline; but everything sort of happens as it will. My best writing happens when I'm just chugging along not thinking about what I'm doing at all -- when I sort of get 'in the zone'...
I do a lot of research for things in my stories (you should see my S&M book collection I got for Stolen Heaven...), and am very fussy about using the correct words for things. Seeing a "your" when the writer meant the contraction for "you are" infuriates me -- I don't care that we're not professional writers, that is no excuse for not taking the care to make what you write the absolute best it can be. It's not so hard to tell "your" & "you're" apart, or "their" "there" and "they're", and when I see them used interchangeably, it makes me see red...The editor in me starts reading instead of the reader, and I lose all enjoyment of the story because I'm too busy mentally correcting it...
On the other hand, I do not write 100% grammatically correct sentences. I have my own style of writing, and while it tends to have too many run-on sentences and ellipses, I've had quite a few compliments on my writing and no complaints about the style, and it's just the way I am. I love having an audience for my stories, but I write mainly to keep myself sane, and as long as it works for me, that's the way it's going to be written...I do try to avoid any screamingly bad sentences, but they do creep in every now & then...I'm also terribly prone to typos...
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