About Me

General

Hi there!

My name is Silvia and I'm an ice-cream fanatic with an unhealthy love of chocolate flakes. Bring them on by the bucketful!

As much as I love dessert, I also love Science. Science is my lady (more like harsh mistress) and has whipped me into your clichéd tortured student. I spend as little time as I possibly can poring over textbooks with too many words and not enough pictures. I like what I study but that doesn't mean I like the act of studying ;)

Yes, that's me.

I am also your clichéd tortured writer. I've been writing since I was nine, took it seriously at fifteen and came out, so to speak, at nineteen when I discovered NaNoWriMo and told everyone I'd write 50,000 words in a month so they'd keep me honest. Little did we all know I'd end up writing 68,000! Now there's that little matter of editing it all...

Writing is my breath, my heart and my life. I hold a fascination for words and how profound they can be, so I strive to improve every aspect of my knowledge of the English language to manipulate words into sentences, sentences into paragraphs and paragraphs into stories so that a combination of twenty-six letters become something so much more beautiful.

My other hobbies include: drawing, mucking around with fountain pens, watching reruns and counting random bruises and scratches on my arms and legs because I'm clumsy and guaranteed to find a new injury every week.

Likes

• Ice-cream
• Fruit, especially apples, oranges and mangoes.
• Writing flash fiction, sci-fi/fantasy and a bit of YA.
• Anime/manga with lots of action and humour.
• A range of music. But I prefer instrumental otherwise I get distracted by the emotional turmoil/subliminal messages/lyrics.
• Talking long walks and admiring people's gardens, as creepy as it sounds.
• Sitting in the shade of a tree while the sun is shining on everyone else.
• Dogs
• Goats
• Bubble wrap. *Pop!*

Dislikes

• Capsicums
• Onions
• Tomatoes
• Some insects. *Lights a candle* Here, mothy, mothy.
• Crazy drivers who speed, don't indicate, take corners at 50kph and honk like crazy when the light's just turned green.