Hi! I'm Ami, and live in the USA. My favorite books are Harry Potter(go Ravenclaw!), and just about anything by Mercedes Lackey. David Weber is also awesome! My current favorite TV shows are CSI NY, Criminal Minds, and FBI.

NOTICE: The True Story has been adopted with my full permission by percyjacksonfan135. Because of that, I have deleted my copy.

YOU KNOW YOU'RE AN AUTHOR IF...

You talk to yourself a lot. (e.g. Hmm, what if Jason had chosen Reyna over Piper? Oh, story idea!! Must get to computer!)

You talk to yourself about talking to yourself. (e.g. 'Why do I constantly ask myself random things?')

When you talk to yourself you often talk to yourself like you're talking to someone else. (e.g. 'Have you ever noticed that deliver could mean someone's liver?')

After uttering a profound piece of wisdom like that above, you stare at the cookie in your hand with awe and say, "Wow, this stuff is great for sugar highs...'

You live off of sugar and caffeine (the two greatest things ever discovered!)

You'll check your e-mail every day of the week and then disappear off the face of the earth.

You're e-mails tend to be pages long and incredibly random.

When replying to an e-mail, you'll never actually address the point of it.

No matter where you are in a room you never have to get up to find a pen/pencil and paper.

The letters on your keyboard are wearing off.

Your friends and family think that you have carpal tunnel syndrome.

You constantly start talking in third person, present or past tense.

You start thinking about making lists like this and start giggling for no "apparent" reason.

Your friends stopped looking at you funny because you were laughing for no apparent reason a loooooong time ago.

And FINALLY, the one way to tell if you're a good writer: You failed English 101.

(copy that into you're profile if you fit one or more of the descriptions)

Rules of reviewing

1. Do not flame: Flamers are seen as irritating little bugs buzzing in the writer’s ear. If you don’t like a story then that’ alright, either stop reading it or leave a review containing constructive criticism, not just plain bashing of the writer.
2. Look up the facts first: If you’re going to leave a negative review criticizing something then make sure you haven’t misread or missed something important before you send the review as if you do send a scathing review and you had ignored or missed something it is highly insulting to the writer.
3. Do not tell the writer they should die or anything similar: do I really have to explain this?
4. Don’t jump the gun with assumptions: I’ve had people after reading ONE chapter of a story say that is was horrible as my character was apparently ‘too overpowered in everything and had no character flaws’ and that I would ‘give them everything on a silver platter’. That isn’t nearly enough time to deduce anything like that and some writers don’t put the flaws that are important right in the first chapter with a glowing neon sign.
5. While reviews like “I love it” “it was great” and “Update soon” are appreciated authors greatly prefer longer reviews where you, the reader, says what they like or didn’t like about the piece as many writers here, like me, are writing on this site to improve our writing skills so we like to know what we do that works and what we need to improve upon.
6. Try to avoid hitting the review button when the words “type your review for this chapter here…” are on the review box…it’s amusing at first but quickly loses that charm.