Just some girl, who is crazy, 100% in love with ballroom dancing. Aside from that, my interests include reading, writing, and drawing. I also love listening to music, befriending my librarians and playing with my cats.

A little bit about myself:

I'm an avid reader and writer. I can't name favorite books, but I do have favorite series, Namely The Talon Saga by Julie Kagawa, The Sword Of Truth by Terry Goodkind, and the Caraval novels by Stephanie Garber. I love Pride and Prejudice, and I love The Outsiders. It's one of my favorite books. I also have a great love of drawing, painting, etc., But I am best at drawing.

I've been told by numerous people throughout my life that I'm a wonderful writer. So, to fo into depth about my writing style...

I work very hard to make sure that my works are edited to perfection and have correct grammar, paragraph structure, etc. (And by this I mean tagging my dialogue correctly, making sure to start a new paragraph when a different character begins speaking. That last one gets on my nerves when I see people who don't do it. That and when I read something and can't tell who said it because it isn't tagged correctly, or at all)

I have a hard time keeping dialogue out of my paragraphs, in fact, I have to remind myself to not get my characters into a monologue. It's something I feel I need to work on to this day.

Every time POV changes, I start a new chapter. It feels unnatural to me to change it in the middle of a chapter, even though if I did, my chapters would probably be a lot longer and in certain stories, I wouldn't have so many of them.

I do not write in third person. Period. End of story. It takes away from the emotion in the story, as well as the descriptions. The only times I have ever written in third person are when I'm dealing with the perspective of a character I can't identify with, and odds are, if that's the case, I probably just won't write about them in general, unless I feel it is very necessary to the story.

Another thing I don't do: graphic sex scenes. It's too private a thing for me to write about, and when I see that in other stories, I try not to read it very closely. If I can't read it, I can't write it. Please don't ask me to write one, because you'll be wasting your breath, and it won't be very good, even if I did write one. When I do a love scene that gets into sex, I gloss over it. I make it apparent what is going on, and go on about the emotion of the moment rather than what is physically going on. If at all. There are times when I cut off the scene right before anything like that starts, and leave it to my readers imagination.

I don't make a habit of adding song lyrics into my stories, unless I feel that the song is crucial to the scene.

Now that that's done, back to the important parts. Right now, my favorite TV shows are Friends, Stranger Things, M*A*S*H, MacGyver, Blue Bloods, and Remington Steele (An 80's crime drama with a very young and very good looking Peirce Brosnan in it). But my true love is in movies.

I honestly have a hard time understanding people who don't really like to watch movies, because movies were such a major part of my childhood. That was what my family did. We sat down in the living room and watched a movie together. Without those movies, I would be a very different person today. I grew up on all these wonderful movies that make you laugh, and cry, and walk around with a confidant sway in your step. Movies that just make you feel oh, so, fantastically, amazingly human. And to me, anybody who just doesn't get why I love movies... I just don't get them.

On that note, a handful of my favorite movies are:

Ghost (1990)

The Princess Bride

Dirty Dancing

Footloose (surprise surprise, and it's the original version, not the remake)

Grease

Ferris Beuller's Day Off

Risky Business

Raiders Of The Lost Ark

How To Train Your Dragon

Wonder Woman

Flashdance (Again, are you really surprised?)

Top Gun

X-Men (First Class, Days of Future Past, and Apocalypse)

Bohemian Rhapsody

So, yeah,

So, I am pretty much a walking 80s cliche. But, moving on...

I really do love Ballroom dance. I'm probably best at East Coast Swing right now, but I really love Mambo, Waltz, and Cha-Cha. Actually really, I love it all. Bachata, Balboa, Rumba, Tango. Except Jitterbug. Jitterbug stinks. The steps are boring and it's for songs that are too fast to East Coast Swing to. On that note, though I do love Ballroom, the profile picture is not me. To those who couldn't tell, it's a promo shot of Cynthia Rhodes, who always will be a fantastic dancer.

I don't really care for types of dancing aside from ballroom. In ballet, tap, jazz and modern, I find it difficult To forget the crowd. In those types of dances, it feels like you're dancing for the crowd. But for me, the crowd disappears in ballroom, because you concentrate so wholly on your partner and what they are telling you to do, when and where they are telling you to go. I'm not dancing for the crowd, I'm dancing for me. I'm not self conscious when I dance, I feel beautiful. I don't ever feel unhappy dancing, and if I go a long time without dancing, I miss it. It comes so naturally to me. I learn in a minute what others learn in ten, and I can follow steps that my dance Instructor hasn't found a partner who can correctly follow in.